Drink is the only opponent I have been unable to beat.

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

No matter what has happened to you in the past or what is going on in your life right now, it has no power to keep you from having an amazingly good future if you will walk by faith in God. God loves you! He wants you to live with victory over sin so you can possess His promises for your life today!

Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.

There is no substitute for victory.

I played a lot of tough clubs in my time. Once a guy in one of those clubs wanted to bet me $10 that I was dead. I was afraid to bet.

Gains achieved at great cost against our enemy in Afghanistan are reversible.

For the mission’s sake, for our country’s sake, and the sake of the men who carried the Division’s colors in past battles – carry out your mission and keep your honor clean.

When I won the Golden Gloves in 1960, that made me realize I had a chance. And when I won at the Olympics, that sealed it: I was the champ.

Don’t be a writer; it’s a terrible way to live your life. There’s nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude. So if you have a taste for all those things, which means that you really are burning to do it, then go ahead and do it. But don’t expect anything from anybody.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Homeland or death! Socialism or death! We shall overcome!

Getting in and out of the car with the halo takes a bit of experience. I struggled initially, but after a few trial runs I was fine.

Experience acquired in the heroic battle against Batista’s tyranny showed that the enemy, no matter what his strength, could not defeat the Cuban people.

It’s getting harder to make decisions to just want to do something to work… I’m trying to find things that are extremely challenging or mean something to me deeply.

I’ll never make it, it will never happen, because they’re never going to hear me ‚cause they’re screaming all the time.

There are no pleasures in a fight but some of my fights have been a pleasure to win.

‚American Graffiti‘ was unpleasant because of the fact that there was no money, no time, and I was compromising myself to death.

Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness.

Synergy is what happens when one plus one equals ten or a hundred or even a thousand! It’s the profound result when two or more respectful human beings determine to go beyond their preconceived ideas to meet a great challenge.

Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.

Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It’s hard to keep awake with nothing to do.

I really started writing music to challenge myself, to see what I could write.

Water is my drink.

When people say, you know, ‚Good teacher,‘ ‚Prophet,‘ ‚Really nice guy’… this is not how Jesus thought of Himself. So you’re left with a challenge in that, which is either Jesus was who he said he was or a complete and utter nut case. You have to make a choice on that.

There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.

With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I’m going to press on for equality. I’m going to press on for the sake of our children. I’m going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I am going to press on.

If you stop struggling, then you stop life.

Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.

There’s always an element of self delusion among people who believe they ought to be President. There’s an underestimation of your opponent and an overestimation of your own abilities. This is compatible with being rich and powerful, the idea that we were blessed by God because we deserve to be blessed.

I do not pilfer victory.

It’s a curse. I ask God to take this away from me all the time. I do not like being an artist.

The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further.

I think it’s quite great to set yourself a big challenge, and then you’ve got another reason for keeping fit.

My life is a struggle.

For victory in life, we’ve got to keep focused on the goal, and the goal is Heaven.

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

At the outset, I want to say that the suggestion that the struggle in South Africa is under the influence of foreigners or communists is wholly incorrect. I have done whatever I did because of my experience in South Africa and my own proudly felt African background, and not because of what any outsider might have said.

Winning, to me, is easy. Winning more is the challenge.

When I’m ready to fight, my opponent has a better chance of surviving a forest fire wearing gasoline drawers.

Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.

The glory of the nation rests in the character of her men. And character comes from boyhood. Thus, every boy is a challenge to his elders.

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

If I wished to do something, even if I couldn’t find anyone who wanted to make the effort with me, I would go out solo climbing. I did find solo climbing very challenging and a little frightening. You knew that you were completely on your own, and you had to overcome all the problems and possible dangers.

I’m not confrontational, but if someone challenges, I’m not going to back down.

Perseverance is also key to success in any endeavor, but without perseverance in combat, there can be no victory.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

The cause of my life has been to oppose superstition. It’s a battle you can’t hope to win – it’s a battle that’s going to go on forever. It’s part of the human condition.

I love a Hebrew National hot dog with an ice-cold Corona – no lime. If the phone rings, I won’t answer until I’m done.

I feel impressed to counsel those engaged in personal challenges to do right. In particular, my heart reaches out to those who feel discouraged by the magnitude of their struggle.

It was a challenge, to work with Oliver Stone.

My unpredictability is what separates me. If you move in so many ways, your opponent is not focused on what he’s doing. He’s focusing in on what you’re doing, and it freezes him. When they freeze and you hit, they shatter like glass.

The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That’s the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!

Most of us experience a life full of wonderful moments and difficult moments. But for many of us, even when we are most joyful, there is fear behind our joy.

If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go.

That feeling is so intoxicating, walking off the court holding the Larry O’Brien trophy. So I just want to do that again.

I think in defeat you grope for things that are happy, and it’s hard.

You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.