Even though you are on the right track – you will get run over if you just sit there.

Being second is to be the first of the ones who lose.

I have a deep, deep belief that if I tell you I’m going to crack you with a clean shot to the chin inside one minute of the first round and you will be unconscious, well, then that’s what will happen.

I don’t fight in chase of an individual. I hear this sometimes where fighters work their whole careers to reach a matchup with a certain individual. I do not think in that way.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.

Actually oddly enough, I think my work, the activism, will be forgotten. And I hope it will. Because I hope those problems will have gone away.

When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.

‚They‘ are the people that don’t believe in you, that say that you won’t succeed. We stay away from ‚They.‘

We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.

I wasn’t born a natural entrepreneur. I had to be trained.

The great question of our time is, ‚Will we be motivated by materialistic philosophy or by spiritual power?‘

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.

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

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in – that we do it to God, to Christ, and that’s why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Be careful what you set your heart upon – for it will surely be yours.

All I ever wanted to do with my life was own a little house. I did that way back with ‚Rocky,‘ so now everything I do is just icing on the cake.

The good part about youngsters is that they are so fearless. You want to be like them.

Africa is on the rise.

Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

If we don’t succeed we run the risk of failure.

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

I grew up where, when a door closed, a window didn’t open. The only thing I had was cracks. I’d do everything to get through those cracks – scratch, claw, bite, push, bleed. Now the opportunity is here. The door is wide open, and it’s as big as a garage.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

If you choose to do something, attack it. You can hate me, but there’s one thing you can’t say about me – that I didn’t attack it.

A lot of people tell me a lot of things about my conduct, my game, my future… but I try to stay away from their words of wisdom. I don’t let it distract me. On the field, you will be facing the ball alone. If you fail, you will the only one to blame. So, you should be the one deciding for yourself.

A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.

I know a lot of people say they always believed they could get into F1, but I didn’t quite believe that, certainly not when I was 7 and maybe not until I was 14. It was always so far away.

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts.

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

In order for us to have a future that’s exciting and inspiring, it has to be one where we’re a space-bearing civilization.

Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.

The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.

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

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

We live in a culture that relishes tearing others down. It’s ultimately more fulfilling, though, to help people reach their goals. Instead of feeling jealous, remember: If God did it for them, He can do it for you.

It’s the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

You can’t die with an unfinished book.

It’s true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Since day one, since the first time I touched the pen, I wanted to be the best at what I do.

Talking isn’t doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.

But just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the constitution, sooner or later, you’ve got to compromise. You’ve got to start making the compromises that arrive at a consensus and move the country forward.

Love to everybody who is out there progressing and taking things to the next level.

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

I fear that many a man’s good resolutions only need the ordinary fire of daily life to make them melt away. So, too, with fine professions and the boastings of perfection which abound in this age of shams.

If a guy hits .300 every year, what does he have to look forward to? I always tried to stay around .190, with three or four RBI. And I tried to get them all in September. That way I always had something to talk about during the winter.

Anytime I feel lost, I pull out a map and stare. I stare until I have reminded myself that life is a giant adventure, so much to do, to see.

I like working. That’s when I’m feeling my best. And the people around me know that. My wife knows that.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

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

The over-all point is that new technology will not necessarily replace old technology, but it will date it. By definition. Eventually, it will replace it. But it’s like people who had black-and-white TVs when color came out. They eventually decided whether or not the new technology was worth the investment.

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were – to the very last minute – a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

Opportunity makes a thief.

I intend to live forever, or die trying.