Does anybody really think that they didn’t get what they had because they didn’t have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?

You might win some, you might lose some. But you go in, you challenge yourself, you become a better man, a better individual, a better fighter.

The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.

I just want to be just as everyone else. I want to educate myself and be just like a normal teenager.

Somewhere it is written that parents who are critical of other people’s children and publicly admit they can do better are asking for it.

I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.

My sisters are stronger and my brother’s bigger than me.

I try to be the same person I was yesterday.

We become what we repeatedly do.

When you play sports like tennis, you’re alone, and that’s a good school for life, but it’s also a good school for life to bring your best and make those around you better, too – helping others in difficult moments.

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.

I want to believe that I am improving. This is something that I take really seriously.

You know, God gave me a gift to do other things besides play the game of basketball.

On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit.

When we’re looking for compassion, we need someone who is deeply rooted, is able to bend and, most of all, embraces us for our strengths and struggles.

The reward of a thing well done is having done it.

You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.

I’m tough when I have to be, tender when I should be. When you find a really tough guy, he’s not a predator. He doesn’t have to prove himself. Guys who have to pretend to be tough, they ain’t. I’m tough.

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

I like to recede away from classifications. You might say that indicates a fundamental lack of commitment. I suppose that’s true to some degree.

Indeed, we’re strongest when the face of America isn’t only a soldier carrying a gun but also a diplomat negotiating peace, a Peace Corps volunteer bringing clean water to a village, or a relief worker stepping off a cargo plane as floodwaters rise.

It’s not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.

The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.

In a magazine, one can get – from cover to cover – 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.

From the moment I open my eyes, I’m trying to free my body. I’m trying to get looser, more flexible, to gain control. Movement is medicine to me.

The financial crisis should not become an excuse to raise taxes, which would only undermine the economic growth required to regain our strength.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

I was a kind of hyper-intense person in my twenties and very impatient.

I know that I always wanted things. I was always proud of my people, proud of my home, but I always wanted more. I think most people do.

I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

One of the wonderful things about Oprah: She teaches you to keep on stepping.

There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.

It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.

To not to have entirely wasted one’s life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself.

Talent without working hard is nothing.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Never find fault with the absent.

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‚I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.‘

Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.

Nobody can ever say that being negative ever helped them at all – not in any way.

I don’t think I will ever be content. I am somebody who is always hungry.

Coaches will say that it’s not important for their team to run more, and they prefer to make games the right way. I want to make games only the right way and run 10 km more.

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

I’m not a bad person.

I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.

I will never retire from politics, the revolution, or the ideas I have.

If you have the ability to pick yourself up by the bootstraps and start over, you come out stronger because you learn from whatever mistakes you made.

I set records that will never be equaled. In fact, I hope 90% of them don’t even get printed.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.

Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real achievement is liking what you see in the mirror every morning.

Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.