I always make my dreams into goals.

Have you not learned that strength comes to an ordinary soul when given an extraordinary calling?

The reward of a thing well done is having done it.

The difference between us and them, between you and success, is not that you never fail, but it’s how you recover from those failures – is that you keep getting up time and time again. You figure out what you did wrong, and then you make it right. I say that to my kids every day.

To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.

If you choose to do something, attack it. You can hate me, but there’s one thing you can’t say about me – that I didn’t attack it.

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

I can’t keep somebody from being a star, and I can’t make somebody a star, and nobody can.

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

I have only one counsel for you – be master.

I cook, I create, I’m incredibly excited by what I do, I’ve still got a lot to achieve.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

Success comes to those who have an entire mountain of gold that they continually mine, not those who find one nugget and try to live on it for fifty years.

I can do whatever I want.

Collegiality is crucial to the success of our mission. We could not do the job the Constitution assigns to us if we didn’t – to use one of Justice Antonin Scalia’s favorite expressions – ‚Get over it!‘

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

I learned a long time ago how to be coachable.

I couldn’t ever go back home without being something. I probably would never have gone back home. That was definitely a big motivation. To get back home, and not empty-handed.

Carry the battle to them. Don’t let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don’t ever apologize for anything.

In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance… you thrive on that.

I’m never gonna step away from stand-up. I can’t. That’s what got me where I am, and that’s also my muse. That’s how I stay level-headed. That’s what keeps me going.

Around every corner, always protect the engine that powers you.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help… Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business – you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.

Life begins on the other side of despair.

Don’t be a spectator, don’t let life pass you by.

I look at myself like a show dog. I’ve got to keep her clipped and trimmed and in good shape.

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.

With ideas it is like with dizzy heights you climb: At first they cause you discomfort and you are anxious to get down, distrustful of your own powers; but soon the remoteness of the turmoil of life and the inspiring influence of the altitude calm your blood; your step gets firm and sure and you begin to look – for dizzier heights.

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

The first time I stepped on an NBA court I became a businessman.

No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

The good part about youngsters is that they are so fearless. You want to be like them.

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

Good intentions never change anything. They only become a deeper and deeper rut.

Thought is the parent of the deed.

You have a more interesting life if you wear impressive clothes.

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

Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I’m past that age.

The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.

Of course it would be nice for everybody and myself if we could win but we can still have a personal or a team win if we achieve a target that is effectively a win for us.

The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.

The only way you gain mental toughness is to do things you’re not happy doing. If you continue doing things that you’re satisfied and make you happy, you’re not getting stronger. You’re staying where you’re at. Either you’re getting better, or you’re getting worse. You’re not staying the same.

Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the raising sun.

In any profession it gets to be a grind.

Everyone, no doubt, remains first and foremost a man of his own country and continues to draw from it his motive force.

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.

Players now have a groin injury for months and months, and I often think they don’t really give a toss whether they’re playing or not because they’re getting paid anyway.

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

When I wake up, I expect things to be good. If they’re not, then I try to set about trying to make them as good as I can ‚cause I know I’m gonna have to live that day anyway. So why not try to make the most of it if you can? Some days, they pan out a little better than others, but you still gotta always just try.

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.

When I’m inspired, I get excited because I can’t wait to see what I’ll come up with next.

If a person is successful, we imagine they are probably also ethical, conscientious and deserving of their good fortune. This obscures the fact that many people who get ahead have done so by doing less than moral actions, which they cleverly disguise from view.

Great industries are never made from single companies. There is room in space for a lot of winners.

If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

When you are organizing a group of people, the first thing that we do is we talk about the history of what other people have been able to accomplish – people that look like them, workers like them, ordinary people, working people – and we give them the list: these are people like yourself; this is what they were able to do in their community.

My public is growing up just as I am. After all, I’m not 19 anymore and if I stick with the sex bit, who will be paying to see me when I’m 50?

If you lose a big fight, it will worry you all of your life. It will plague you – until you get your revenge.