Everybody asks if putting is like shooting free throws. It has a very similar kind of mindset. And it’s just you, the ball, and the target.

One might say that our words are a movie screen that reveals what we have been thinking and the attitudes we have.

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

If I am a cup maker, I’m interested in making the best cup I possibly can. My effort goes into that cup, not what people think about it.

I was a very average player and became a trainer in Germany with a special club.

I’ll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it’s sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.

I had talked to a lot of people in Golden State’s front offices before the draft. They said they liked me, but they had a lot of guards, so I didn’t think that I would end up there.

No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

You’ll see it when you believe it.

Concentration of executive power, unless it’s very temporary and for specific circumstances, let’s say fighting world war two, it’s an assault on democracy.

I’m a writer, not a professional runner. It’s fun and it helps me write. I need powerful concentration.

Meditation is a state of mind which looks at everything with complete attention, totally, not just parts of it. And no one can teach you how to be attentive. If any system teaches you how to be attentive, then you are attentive to the system, and that is not attention.

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn’t have it and thought of other things if you did.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.

Yeah, it’s pretty hard not to be completely cynical these days.

I’m a Silicon Valley guy. I just think people from Silicon Valley can do anything.

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

I’m really a normal football manager.

A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.

Successful people make money. It’s not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.

Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story.

My view is there’s no bad time to innovate.

Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.

Well, I mean, to me, I think my ultimate – my ultimate goal is winning championships and – and I understand that me going down as one of the greats will not happen until I, you know, win a championship.

My priority is cricket. Everything that I get apart from it is a result of the effort on the field. Everything else follows. I am pretty aware of my priorities, and I don’t really focus on things that are not as important to me as cricket.

I love football and the intensity of football in Liverpool, this is what is very good for me.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

The way I figured it, I was even with baseball and baseball with me. The game had done much for me, and I had done much for it.

You can’t be happy by doing something groovy.

If you look at anyone who has achieved great success and wealth, people like Warren Buffett, Oprah Winfrey, or Lance Armstrong, they have all focused intensely in order to win.

Sports are basically our way of feeling sorry for ourselves. Most men can’t become athletes. We’re watching guys who actually made it. We see them dunking and making touchdowns. Then we think about ourselves when we were younger.

I’d rather be optimistic and wrong than pessimistic and right.

What someone else does or doesn’t do has no effect on me and what I do.

The question is not, ‚Do you have a problem?‘ The question is, ‚Does the problem have you?‘

The bat is not a toy, it’s a weapon. It gives me everything in life, which helps me to do everything on the field.

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

I signed for Mohun Bagan and then I got the news that Bhaichung also joined the club. The first day he met me he told me that I have heard about you and you are doing well. I told everyone in my family and friends that Bhaichung told me that.

Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.

If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they’re real for you whether they’re real or not.

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Our focus needs to be less on what our legacy’s going to be or how we can control each other and more how we can give to each other.

It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.

People’s minds are changed through observation and not through argument.

Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.

Our intention creates our reality.

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.

If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into a concentration that you keep alive throughout the day. Then what you say, what you think, and what you do will then be in the light of that wisdom and you will avoid making mistakes and creating suffering.

No matter what, people grow. If you chose not to grow, you’re staying in a small box with a small mindset. People who win go outside of that box. It’s very simple when you look at it.

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

All art really does is keep you focused on questions of humanity, and it really is about how do we get on with our maker.

Many people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.

Everyone loves a win in India. No one wants to lose a match. It is the cricketer who absorbs all the pressure.

‚They‘ is… stay away from them, please. There is so many different definitions of ‚they.‘ You might have a personal ‚they.‘ They against you; they want you broken and miserable. They don’t like winners; they don’t like people who’s blessed. So everybody’s got a different ‚they.‘

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

My superhero has always been Tendulkar, and it will be Tendulkar for life. He is someone who has inspired me immensely. Just watching him play for India, I used to dream of winning games for India, because he used to do it single handedly.

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