Defeat doesn’t finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he’s defeated. He’s finished when he quits.

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

God sent me on earth. He send me to do something, and nobody can stop me. If God want to stop me, then I stop. Man never can.

People have to understand one thing: at the age of 18, I arrived at a dream club like Manchester United. It was a dream come true. But, even at that moment, I was thinking about playing in England for some years and then going to play in Spain. Even at that time I was thinking that way, and I always gave 100% everything.

Success is the child of audacity.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

You sort of start thinking anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.

Words are powerful; if you change your words, you can change your life.

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

My honour was not yielded, but conquered merely.

A man’s got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.

If you want special results, you have to feel special things and do special things together. You can speak about spirit, or you can live it.

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.

I have only one counsel for you – be master.

I don’t want to make money; I want to make a difference.

Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.

There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.

If I’d had some set idea of a finish line, don’t you think I would have crossed it years ago?

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.

Let the people on both sides keep their self-possession, and just as other clouds have cleared away in due time, so will this, and this great nation shall continue to prosper as before.

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

With Kansas, I had a four-year deal. The initial two months were real tough. I had to adjust a lot. Then, things started looking up.

Virtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positive attitude.

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

Back in the day, what motivated me was overcoming myself. Now I believe in being a leader. I’ve done it all – I’m good. Now, it’s about setting an example for others to follow. I can’t just talk it – I have to live it.

One of the huge imbalances in life is the disparity between your daily existence, with its routines and habits, and the dream you have within yourself of some extraordinarily satisfying way of living.

You were not created to just get by with an average, unrewarding, or unfulfilling life. God created you to leave your mark on this generation.

We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable.

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed – there’s so little competition.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

If we keep doing what we’re doing, we’re going to keep getting what we’re getting.

Remembering what you’ve been through and how that has strengthened your mindset can lift you out of a negative brain loop and help you bypass those weak, one-second impulses to give in. Even if you’re feeling low and beat down by life right now, I guarantee you can think of a time or two when you overcame odds and tasted success.

If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.

If you can dream it, you can do it.

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

You just wait. I’m going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.

It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.

I’m not very ambitious at all.

My favorite affirmation when I feel stuck or out of sorts is: Whatever I need is already here, and it is all for my highest good. Jot this down and post it conspicuously throughout your home, on the dashboard of your car, at your office, on your microwave oven, and even in front of your toilets!

No sanction can stand against ignited minds.

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.

As a kid, I used to see how Sachin Tendulkar used to win matches under pressure for India in Sharjah or other places. So I was always keen to repeat the same in similar situations. I don’t take pressure on myself when I am in the middle. I love pressure, and I always believe that pressure makes you more focused.

Over the years I’ve learned how to lock myself up in a prison of hope, knowing that God has nothing but His best planned for me. He promised me things concerning my ministry and my life.

Someone said to me, ‚If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no talent and should give up, what would you do?‘ My answer was then and still is, ‚If a hundred percent told me that, all one hundred percent would be wrong.‘

I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it’s so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.

My mother was a very wonderful woman. When she and my dad divorced, she moved to California and worked two jobs in the cannery at night and as a waitress during the day. But she saved enough money to establish a restaurant.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.

Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.

I never got into training to be an All-Ireland boxing champ or to win a belt. At the start, I just got into it to learn how to defend myself when I got into situations.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

It isn’t sufficient just to want – you’ve got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we’ve got a system that allows them to do it.

I’m about being the best.

The most challenging project I’ve ever done, I think, is every single thing I’ve ever tried to do. It’s never easy.