How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

To keep the business going, you gotta keep it boomin‘.

Let my skin and sinews and bones dry up, together with all the flesh and blood of my body! I welcome it! But I will not move from this spot until I have attained the supreme and final wisdom.

There is little success where there is little laughter.

I’ve felt like an outsider all my life. It comes from my mother, who always felt like an outsider in my father’s family. She was a powerful woman, and she motivated my father.

In any court-like environment of power, you will inevitably find people who are drawn to those who are successful or powerful, not out of admiration, but out of secret envy.

Every night on the court I give my all, and if I’m not giving 100 percent, I criticize myself.

I never cut class. I loved getting A’s, I liked being smart. I liked being on time. I thought being smart is cooler than anything in the world.

It isn’t sufficient just to want – you’ve got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

If you deserve it, go get it.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

I’ve arrived at the place if I’m not taking a career risk, I’m not happy. If I’m scared, then I know I’m being challenged.

Without failure there is no achievement.

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Our Heavenly Father loves you. He has created you to be successful and to have joy.

Often people become our friend or follower with an undercurrent of resentment in our having more success than they have. They secretly desire the opportunity to take us down a notch; they have a nose for any misstep on our part they can exploit.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

I’ve had all six of my books reach the New York Times bestseller list, which is especially rewarding seeing as I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn’t write. It just goes to show you that we learn from our mistakes.

Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.

As far as a glass ceiling, I feel that all you can do is give it your absolute best with whatever gifts the universe has given you. And if you make it in some way that other people can recognize, that’s fine. But even if you don’t quote-unquote make it, you’re fine if you’ve given it your whole heart and soul.

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.

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.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

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

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

You always want your people to be proud of what you have accomplished.

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.

Don’t worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

It kills me to lose. If I’m a troublemaker, and I don’t think that my temper makes me one, then it’s because I can’t stand losing. That’s the way I am about winning, all I ever wanted to do was finish first.

The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.

I have to keep improving myself and challenging myself.

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Dave Mackay is my definition of a superstar. The man broke his leg three times, but wouldn’t be carried off. He walked off.

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

Bob Houghton is a great coach and I am confident that the national team will do well under him.

Enemies are so stimulating.

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.

My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

People think because I’ve got some success, I’ve made it, but in my eyes it’s like, ‚How long has Jay Z been in the business? How many albums has he got?‘ Not that I’m trying to be Jay Z, but I am trying to be around for a long time.

Control your own destiny! Control your own destiny!

Prospering just doesn’t have to do with money.

You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.

If there be no enemy there’s no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.

Without discipline, there’s no life at all.

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.

I don’t tell people, ‚You’re okay the way that you are.‘ That’s not the right story. The right story is, ‚You’re way less than you could be.‘

It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one’s belly, in order to be able to save one’s head.

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

When you go to the mountains, you see them and you admire them. In a sense, they give you a challenge, and you try to express that challenge by climbing them.

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.