I always had a sense of discipline in me. However, there was a time when I couldn’t divide my time properly between off-field things and on-field assignments. The focus would be missing at times, and that would affect my preparation for matches. I managed to change that.

Learn to say ‚no‘ to the good so you can say ‚yes‘ to the best.

I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.

We forge the chains we wear in life.

To deal with individual human needs at the everyday level can be noble sometimes.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.

You always want to quit while you are ahead. You don’t want to be like a fighter who stays too long in the ring until you’re not performing at your best.

I think it’s my responsibility, as a person of influence… to sometimes try to do what I can.

If we keep doing what we’re doing, we’re going to keep getting what we’re getting.

Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

You simply have to accept that your demons are a part of you.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don’t want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.

You know, if you are kind of rich, the best thing is that you don’t have to think about money. The best thing you can buy with money is freedom, time. I don’t know how much I earn a year. I have no idea. I don’t know how much I pay in taxes.

At 155, I will be the same animal, an even better animal.

Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.

Coaching wouldn’t be for me. No, certainly not.

The best of us must sometimes eat our words.

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.

There is no real limit to how much better a person who really commits to getting better can get. Every manager has the potential to become an excellent manager for the rest of his or her career.

I’m like a recovering perfectionist. For me it’s one day at a time.

You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.

Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.

You cannot be creative with people around you.

We are in a wrong state of mind if we are not in a thankful state of mind.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

Fear is stupid. So are regrets.

Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.

One of the things I definitely think of as a driver of me is fear. And it’s fear of failure, fear of being overtaken.

Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.

Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one’s potential.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

I’m not afraid to make mistakes.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

You have freedom when you’re easy in your harness.

Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved.

Either you’re the one erasing or you’re the one being erased.

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

Character isn’t something you were born with and can’t change, like your fingerprints. It’s something you weren’t born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is usually painful.

If you’re not very clever you should be conciliatory.

In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.

You not supposed to feel down over whatever happen to you. I mean, you’re supposed to use whatever happen to you as some type of upper, not a downer.

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.

If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.

It’s physical. If you keep on writing for three years, every day, you should be strong. Of course you have to be strong mentally, also. But in the first place you have to be strong physically. That is a very important thing. Physically and mentally you have to be strong.

I don’t want to just revolve. I want to evolve. As a man, as a human, as a father, as a lover.

I used to get into a lot of fights.

People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.

The guerrilla fighters should be required to go to bed and get up at fixed hours. Games that have no social function and that hurt the morale of the troops and the consumption of alcoholic drinks should both be prohibited.

Vanity is great motivation, to be fair.

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

You have to stay fresh and blank in your mind when you go out to bat. You complicate things, and you’re gone.

I know you’ve heard it a thousand times before. But it’s true – hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don’t love something, then don’t do it.

People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.

Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.