Do your job. Do it the best you can. Do it right, because somebody, sometimes your best friend, is waiting for you to screw up so she can take your place.

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

Without sounding biased, 70 days of football is not enough. Even if Messi plays 70 days he cannot be in the national team. You need to play around the year to be in contention for the national team.

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Friendship… is not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.

Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.

The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.

The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

In the absence of sound oversight, responsible businesses are forced to compete against unscrupulous and underhanded businesses, who are unencumbered by any restrictions on activities that might harm the environment, or take advantage of middle-class families, or threaten to bring down the entire financial system.

In inner-city, low-income communities of color, there’s such a high correlation in terms of educational quality and success.

I’m a fighter, I’m a winner, and I’m not interested in just battling my team-mate for the back of the grid.

Marathon running, like golf, is a game for players, not winners. That is why Callaway sells golf clubs and Nike sells running shoes. But running is unique in that the world’s best racers are on the same course, at the same time, as amateurs, who have as much chance of winning as your average weekend warrior would scoring a touchdown in the NFL.

I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get.

I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It’s a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.

We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges.

At United, there are great traditions, which you can’t buy in one or two years. They are created by victories. You need to prove again and again that you are better than the others. Manchester United have always done this, and are still doing it, so they are the best.

To get a hold on boys you must be their friend.

The opportunities of America opened out to me the public schools. They carried me to the professional training of an American university. I began by working with my own hands for my daily bread.

Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong.

Everyone needs a coach. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.

I didn’t work hard to sit down and not work.

I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.

All the awards in the world, you can get into all the nightclubs, they’ll send you the nicest clothes. Nothing better than walking into your dad’s restaurant and seeing a smile on his face and knowing that your mom and dad and your sister are real proud of you.

I’m gonna go hard no matter what because I gotta feed my family, and I gotta feed myself.

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

I don’t want no handouts. I want to get it out the mud.

As far as a glass ceiling, I feel that all you can do is give it your absolute best with whatever gifts the universe has given you. And if you make it in some way that other people can recognize, that’s fine. But even if you don’t quote-unquote make it, you’re fine if you’ve given it your whole heart and soul.

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.

As long as I’m learning something, I figure I’m OK – it’s a decent day.

I won at every level – all the way since I started playing the game of basketball at nine. I’ve won at every level, won championships at every level. And, you know, it won’t be fulfilled until I win at the highest level.

What good are fans? You can’t eat applause for breakfast. You can’t sleep with it.

To have a comeback, you have to have a setback.

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

Whenever you give up something, you must replace it with something.

In my line of work, the enemy gets a vote.

To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you, too, can be president of the United States.

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

Basically, when you get to my age, you’ll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.

My friends, there are no friends.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

In ‚Unfair Advantage: The Power of Financial Education‘ and ‚Why A Students Work for C Students,‘ I reveal the secrets of the wealthy and what schools will never teach you about money.

You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards.

When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, ‚Mine is not so bad as all that. She came through, and so can I.‘

Folks don’t like to have somebody around knowing more than they do.

I believe you never get tired by doing work. You get tired when you don’t work. When you clean your house, you don’t get tired; it gives you satisfaction.

If my businesses or my investments are not profitable, then I don’t eat. And I like to eat.

People want you to fail.

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

I am a grafter.

You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

You can live within the institutions and work hard to change them.