Don’t be dependent. At all. Ever. Period.

I just get annoyed at myself. A lot of swearing goes on generally when I am driving.

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.

We choose what attitudes we have right now. And it’s a continuing choice.

When one’s expectations are reduced to zero, one really appreciates everything one does have.

You learn a lot in life but there are a lot of tools and resources in school that help you grow professionally and personally for whatever goal you may want to achieve.

Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.

I’m honored that everybody’s inspired off my inspiration.

The people you choose to have around you make all the difference. My family and close friends keep me grounded. You have to have a mind of your own and a strong head on your shoulders. Cricket is the most important thing to me, so the rest of it pales in comparison.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

In difficult times, we’re not supposed to quit believing; we’re not supposed to quit growing.

You don’t want to pigeonhole yourself.

I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Changing is not just changing the things outside of us. First of all we need the right view that transcends all notions including of being and non-being, creator and creature, mind and spirit. That kind of insight is crucial for transformation and healing.

I never do anything that I don’t want to do.

I affirm to you the tremendous potential you have, not beyond anything you could ever imagine.

Fight with a happy heart.

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.

To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.

The more a person seeks security, the more that person gives up control over their life.

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win – essential to success.

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

Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

You can’t think; you just gotta do things.

I have always thought I was the best ever player.

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is usually painful.

One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment… If it doesn’t turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.

Beauty is not caused. It is.

Growing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn’t accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at somebody else’s insistence or someone else’s whim or convenience.

Better is the enemy of good.

Mental toughness is a lifestyle. It’s something that you live every single day of your life. When I was growing up, I was a lazy kid. I was a lazy kid, and everybody goes, ‚How did you get to where you’re at today? How did you get to where you’re running 200 miles at one time in 39 hours? Being so disciplined?‘

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.

Every summer’s mine.

I believe that every person is born with talent.

When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

I always teach myself calm and visualization stuff.

Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.

I’d be so bored if I wasn’t going out there, knowing that I could still do it. So, I’m going to work hard to be ready to go, and I still plan on playing for a long time.

My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.

I would counsel people to go to college, because it’s one of the best times in your life in terms of who you meet and develop a broad set of intellectual skills.

If we help an educated man’s daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? – not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?

Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable.

I think that at the start of a game, you’re always playing to win, and then maybe if you’re ahead late in the game, you start playing not to lose. The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win.

A man is but the product of his thoughts, what he thinks he becomes.

I said on the equality side of it, that it is essential to a woman’s equality with man that she be the decision-maker, that her choice be controlling.

Ambition has become a dirty word, and I believe it is a great evolutionary force for the positive. If people fail or go astray in their ambition I can live with it but not with people lowering their expectations, wasting time, slacking off and glorifying failure and stupidity.

I’m not really concerned with portraying this tough warrior – I mean, that’s part of my job and I take that very seriously. But I don’t have anything to hide, and I’m not concerned with what people think.

I don’t feel pressure in a negative way. I like pressure. I feel excitement and calm at the same time. No pressure, no diamonds. I want pressure: pressure creates drama, creates emotion.

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.

Passions are the gales of life.

What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.

I wonder how many times people give up just before a breakthrough – when they are on the very brink of success.

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.