For more than a decade, I led an organization that put on an elaborate Christmas program each December. It was a big production, with over 250 people participating in more than 20 performances. By the end of the season, everyone who participated was exhausted.

I think one of my pursuits over the years is trying to answer the question of, ‚What else can you do with a voice other than stand in front of a microphone and sing?‘

We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

If one synchronised swimmer drowns, do all the rest have to drown too?

I love playing under pressure. In fact, if there’s no pressure, then I’m not in the perfect zone.

The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.

For some reason, I have better luck when I work with women. I guess I have a good sense of sisterhood.

I never wanted to perform and never proclaimed myself to be a performer.

As a child, I wanted to know how things worked and to control them. With a friend, I built a number of complicated models that I could control.

We are not cisterns made for hoarding, we are channels made for sharing.

Through the right people focusing on the right things, we can, in time, get on top of a lot if not most of the problems of this world. And that’s what a number of us are trying to do.

We came up with TDE. As competitive as rap is, and as much as we’re trying to exceed the standards we set for ourselves, we take their wins as our wins, too.

I think that a president needs to have a variety of views presented. But also, there has to be a team effort, because otherwise, I think it creates a dissonance and difficulty.

I played characters with villainous aspect. But out-and-out villain? No.

I’m not a photographer, so I didn’t get into F-stops or ND filters or background, foreground, cross-light, all that stuff. But I was interested in the camera and the lenses. That’s the world that I’m moving in, in terms of acting and giving a performance.

Stand-up is hard. Or to keep it at a certain level is hard: I have no writers but me.

I was acting when I was playing baseball.

No foreign policy – no matter how ingenious – has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.

Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn’t.

The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond.

I take a lot of pride in the work I do, because people pay to see me. They’ve got to get babysitters, park their car, get popcorn and candy. I’ve got to be conscious of that.

You want me to own a team and deal with these rich, spoiled stubborn athletes, and try to get them to perform? No thank you.

If I ever go to West Africa, it would probably be for a free concert. I would want to do something for the people there. Maybe we can make a whole event, the way Bob Marley would have done it. Just for the people. And if they climb over the gate, let them climb over the gate.

You know, you can only lead them from behind.

The amount of trust and bandwidth that you build up working with someone for five, seven, 10 years? It’s just awesome. I care about openness and connectedness in a global sense.

All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football.

If two smart, intelligent, clever guys sit together on a table, and you both want the same, where can be the problem? We all want to be successful.

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

We should not underestimate ourselves, because if lots of individuals go together then we can accomplish almost anything.

Football is a simple game based on the giving and taking of passes, of controlling the ball and of making yourself available to receive a pass. It is terribly simple.

I need to do well and show I’m a worthy driver in F1.

Synergy is better than my way or your way. It’s our way.

Positional leaders ignore the fact that every person has hopes, dreams, desires, and goals of his own. And leaders must bring their vision and the aspirations of the people they lead together in a way that benefits everyone.

Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.

Although I’ve been living in the British Virgin Islands for some time now, I have never stopped caring passionately about the U.K. and its great people.

We care for each other and care about our family, and we are both working towards the same goal.

I’m more than comfortable just sitting back and scoring 21, 22 points or whatever and getting 10, 11 assists whatever the case might be. More than comfortable with that. It’s just a matter of the pieces that you have around you and what you can do to elevate everybody else.

Once you get on the playing field it’s not about whether you’re liked or not liked. All that matters is to play at a high level and do whatever it takes to help your team win. That’s what it’s about.

I enjoy singing my songs in front of people.

It’s amazing to me the number of people who will volunteer to help at church but won’t lift a finger to help at home!

People don’t realise how difficult it is to work with people day in and day out that know absolutely nothing.

The colonel replied that he didn’t care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.

Whoever the coach is, my job is to talk to him, understand him and be a better player under him and give my best.

I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.

I like the good life too much, I’m not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons.

We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.

I hate letting my teammates down. I know I’m not going to make every shot. Sometimes I try to make the right play, and if it results in a loss, I feel awful. I don’t feel awful because I have to answer questions about it. I feel awful in that locker room because I could have done something more to help my teammates win.

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me. Every night I had a live audience of 25,000 people to win over. My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining.

The vibe in our locker room is real energetic and fun and real personable, I think from Day 1. That gets you through a lot of tough times, where in hard times, it might be common nature for guys to do their own thing and split up and become silent.

How you go about testing is just very different to just being in the situation of qualifying, having to go out, having to nail the lap.

Over the years, all my coaches and my teammates have contributed a lot to shape my career. I can never forget their contribution and help.

I can’t see myself singing the same song twice in a row. That’s terrible.

The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker.