I am in the fighting game. I don’t care about anything else. I don’t watch the news, I don’t care about politics, I don’t care about other sports. I don’t care about anything I don’t need to care about. This is my sport: it is my life. I study it; I think about it all the time. Nothing else matters.

I was never interested in being powerful or famous. But once I got to film school and learned about movies, I just fell in love with it. I didn’t care what kind of movies I made.

So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.

And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we’re all sweating it – when we’re worried that the bill won’t pass, and it seems like all is lost – Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward… with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace.

If a leader doesn’t convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity within the organization and they’ll start to fall down and get depressed.

Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.

Marathon running, like golf, is a game for players, not winners. That is why Callaway sells golf clubs and Nike sells running shoes. But running is unique in that the world’s best racers are on the same course, at the same time, as amateurs, who have as much chance of winning as your average weekend warrior would scoring a touchdown in the NFL.

So many people think of me as a character on TV, but first and foremost, my passion is teaching dance and creating employable, working dancers.

A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.

It seemed like a very small possibility for me to become an artist. I didn’t have the need to be on the stage; I didn’t feel the need to be heard. I just needed to write.

I have never been bewildered for long in any fight with our enemies – I was Armed with Insight.

I never wanted to sing. I just wanted to play rhythm guitar – hide in the back and just play.

Khrushchev reminds me of the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hang the tiger’s skin long before he has caught the tiger. This tiger has other ideas.

I’d be so bored if I wasn’t going out there, knowing that I could still do it. So, I’m going to work hard to be ready to go, and I still plan on playing for a long time.

At the end of the day, who I really and truly am is a little girl who loved to play the piano.

Football fans share a universal language that cuts across many cultures and many personality types. A serious football fan is never alone. We are legion, and football is often the only thing we have in common.

I have a deep, deep belief that if I tell you I’m going to crack you with a clean shot to the chin inside one minute of the first round and you will be unconscious, well, then that’s what will happen.

Basically, I live to do gigs.

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

Rap was my drug.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

I pity the fool who just gives up.

Eradications are special. Zero is a magic number. You either do what it takes to get to zero and you’re glad you did it; or you get close, give up and it goes back to where it was before, in which case you wasted all that credibility, activity, money that could have been applied to other things.

It takes up enough of my time and interest just working on comedy. I just enjoy it and love doing it.

I went through every emotion with tryna pursue what I’m doing, you know what I mean? And I think what’s gon‘ separate whoever’s gon go for something, that you ain’t gon‘ quit.

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

My purpose is to make exciting music, and I feel like I’ll be doing that for the rest of my life, so there’s no pressure.

People want you to fail.

The music we do is for people to enjoy, dance and sing to it. Dreamers – keep on dreaming and keep working hard to achieve your goals. There are many difficulties, but what matters is to stay focused and have perseverance.

It’s a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can’t stop playing the game the way you’ve always played it.

What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.

Neil Young is my hero, and such a great example. You know what that guy has been doing for the past 40 years? Making music. That’s what that guy does. Sometimes you pay attention, sometimes you don’t. Sometimes he hands it to you, sometimes he keeps it to himself. He’s a good man with a beautiful family and wonderful life.

If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married.

I do the very best I know how – the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

I’m not the sort to back away from a fight. I don’t believe in shrinking from anything. It’s not my speed; I’m a guy who meets adversities head on.

Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn’t give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. That’s why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war.

There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there’s only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.

I love football and the intensity of football in Liverpool, this is what is very good for me.

Better a broken promise than none at all.

Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

I train and I go home, and when I’m home, I think about training. That’s my life every day, and that’s it.

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

Above everything else I’ve done, I’ve always said I’ve had more guts than I’ve got talent.

Founding a company is hard. Most of it isn’t smooth. You’ll have to make very hard decisions. You have to fire a few people. Therefore, if you don’t believe in your mission, giving up is easy. The majority of founders give up. But the best founders don’t give up.

I will keep America moving forward, always forward, for a better America, for an endless enduring dream and a thousand Points of Light. This is my mission, and I will complete it.

Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.

I make impact plays. I make game-changing plays.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.

Puerto Rico’s relationship with music is everything. It’s an island full of talent and if you grow up there, you grow up living and breathing music.

When I step forward on the floor, I have the confidence that I’m the best player playing that night and that I am the most prepared at what I need to be doing.

I have two Golden Boot awards at home. It would be nice to win another, but I wouldn’t mind it if I didn’t.

You throw batting practice, you warm up pitchers, you sit and cheer. You do whatever you have to do to stay on the team.

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

My mother was a very wonderful woman. When she and my dad divorced, she moved to California and worked two jobs in the cannery at night and as a waitress during the day. But she saved enough money to establish a restaurant.

Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning.

I think the thing we see is that as people are using video games more, they tend to watch passive TV a bit less. And so using the PC for the Internet, playing video games, is starting to cut into the rather unbelievable amount of time people spend watching TV.

Alternative R&B is in my soul. It’s not going anywhere.

It’s hard work making movies. It’s like being a doctor: you work long hours, very hard hours, and it’s emotional, tense work. If you don’t really love it, then it ain’t worth it.