Everyone needs a coach. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.

Anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.

Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.

The answer to all writing, to any career for that matter, is love.

Whether for life or death, do your own work well.

Nothing extraordinary happens to a cricketer if you time his career – which is very short.

In other words, don’t expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a normal part of the lifecycle of a unit or a company and what the leader has to do is constantly be up and say ‚we have a problem, let’s go and get it‘.

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight – it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

In Buddhist culture, offering food to the monk symbolizes the action of goodness, and if you have no opportunity to support the practice of spirituality, then you are somehow left in the realm of darkness.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Tonight – to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans – I ask for your support.

We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.

I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.

Don’t give in to excuses that can keep you from really living the best life God has for you.

If you’re not ready for everything, you’re not ready for anything.

Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

In England, when an athlete gets to the top, we do our best to destroy him.

I’ve thought sometimes about what I like about football, and it’s playing together.

Don’t compare yourself with other people; compare yourself with who you were yesterday.

Hillary Clinton will always be there for you. And just remember – there’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help each other.

I’m sure the feeling of fear, as long as you can take advantage of it and not be rendered useless by it, can make you extend yourself beyond what you would regard as your capacity. If you’re afraid, the blood seems to flow freely through the veins, and you really do feel a sense of stimulation.

Better to fight for something than live for nothing.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

Do all you can to make your dreams come true.

No pressure, no diamonds.

The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.

When I do something, I do it full steam ahead.

You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead.

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

Why did I become Jackie Chan? Mostly because I work very hard. When people were sleeping, I was still training.

Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

Lot of players lose hope because of lack of motivation.

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

I look after people.

I have the people behind me and the people are my strength.

Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

I never thought of losing, but now that it‘ s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That’s my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

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.

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

Do I have chocolate chip cookies? Yes, I do. Do I have mint chocolate chip milkshakes? Yes, I do. I love them. They are fantastic. But when I have them, they’re worth it. I earned them. I did something. I worked out super hard. I stayed clean on food.

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

The Qataris have cut off support for the most extreme elements of terrorist organizations.

I was totally dominated and revered my father. I admired everything he did. He was a great sports person. He loved me. I was his only boy at that time, before my brother Billy came along.

Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

A lot of people are focused on taking over the world or doing the biggest thing and getting the most users. I think part of making a difference and doing something cool is focusing intensely.

The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it… that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

Once we start to act, hope is everywhere. So instead of looking for hope, look for action. Then, and only then, hope will come.

If misery loves company, misery has company enough.

I think whether you’re having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude.

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.