Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together.

You can’t have it all all at once. Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all, but in given periods in time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.

When my ancestors came from Africa, they were shackled by our neck, our wrists, and our ankles in steel chains. I’ve turned those steel chains into gold to symbolize the fact that I’m still a slave, only my price tag is higher.

One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

We are never defeated unless we give up on God.

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

You know, there is always times where you feel discouraged and things coming against you, but I don’t know if I ever wanted to throw in the towel.

It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

If there’s one thing that’s certain in business, it’s uncertainty.

Life isn’t meant to be easy. It’s hard to take being on the top – or on the bottom. I guess I’m something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things… Life is one crisis after another.

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

Racing, competing, it’s in my blood. It’s part of me, it’s part of my life; I have been doing it all my life and it stands out above everything else.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.

My old drama coach used to say, ‚Don’t just do something, stand there.‘ Gary Cooper wasn’t afraid to do nothing.

A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.

I was born in a very poor family. I used to sell tea in a railway coach as a child. My mother used to wash utensils and do lowly household work in the houses of others to earn a livelihood. I have seen poverty very closely. I have lived in poverty. As a child, my entire childhood was steeped in poverty.

I don’t suffer of anything that I’ve lost.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

Control your own destiny! Control your own destiny!

If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?

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

I won’t accept anything less than the best a player’s capable of doing… and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!

Without failure there is no achievement.

God tries you in certain, certain ways. Some people are rich, and they believe in God. They lose the money, things get hard, they get weak and quit going to church. Quit serving God like they did.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

I don’t look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.

We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.

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

Carry the battle to them. Don’t let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don’t ever apologize for anything.

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

I think my vice would be outdoing myself.

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

If I should ever be captured, I want no negotiation – and if I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.

I hope my story inspires everyone out there to keep hustling and chasing their dreams.

We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.

I think the great part about what I do is that there’s a scoreboard. At the end of every week, you know how you did. You know how well you prepared. You know whether you executed your game plan. There’s a tangible score.

When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives.

Wine gives a man nothing… it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

And obviously, from our own personal point of view, the principal challenge is a personal challenge.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

Giving up cannot be an option.

I pity the fool who just gives up.

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

The problem with EMMA is that it is cost prohibitive for the small investors who were supposed to benefit from the new transparency.

From caring comes courage.

I’m afraid to fail again.

Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.

All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

I go to cancer wards, and I tell them guys, ‚I’ve beaten it. You can, too.‘

You’re not a product of your nature. That is your genetic makeup or your nurture, the things that have happened to you. Of course those things affect you powerfully, but they do not determine you.

If your treat an individual… as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

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.

Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.