I believe that I’m one of the best in the world at what I do, and that’s all I’ve ever wanted to be.

My focus is my art, and that’s what I love to do. I have to be really passionate in order to do something. I’ve turned down many things that I just didn’t believe in.

We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans – because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That’s why we paint, that’s why we dare to love someone – because we have the impulse to explain who we are.

I was very blessed to have family and friends, but particularly family, who told me I was not only all right, I was just right, so I believe that my brain is a good one, and it’s lasting me very well.

Know that any and all thoughts that you have regarding your own skills, interests, and inclinations are valid. To reinforce the validity of your thoughts, keep them private. Tell yourself that they’re between you and God.

People just don’t understand how obsessed I am with winning.

At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage.

You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds.

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

I am whatever you say I am; if I wasn’t, then why would you say I am.

Marines don’t know how to spell the word ‚defeat‘.

My goals are so high that I don’t have time to relax in any way, shape or form.

When you seek the presence of your creative Spirit and are filled with passion about virtually everything you undertake, you’ll successfully remove the roadblocks from your life and enjoy the active presence of Spirit.

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

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.

I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.

I have a message to give to the world, and I shall not be thwarted.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent.

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

To me, football is so much about mental toughness, it’s digging deep, it’s doing whatever you need to do to help a team win and that comes in a lot of shapes and forms.

Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.

I can’t do nothing just a little.

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

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.

We clearly see in God’s Word that anything He tells us to do, He will give us the ability to do it. But do we really believe it? Do we want to believe it? It’s easier to come up with excuses for why we can’t do things that are hard or that we really don’t want to do.

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

This guy Clubber Lang, I’ve been him all my life. He’s mean and hungry just like me.

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there… and still on your feet.

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

I wanted very much to learn to draw, for a reason that I kept to myself: I wanted to convey an emotion I have about the beauty of the world.

I just figured out that if I gave my all into this game – if I put everything into the fight business – then I would eventually run the fight business.

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

I like being a writer.

A lot of people like to do certain things, but they’re not that good at it. Keep going through the things that you like to do, until you find something that you actually seem to be extremely good at. It can be anything.

I have the Midas touch, in the way that when I hook up with a project, I feel, not speaking cocky or conceited, but there’s a confidence I have. I learned that from Muhammad Ali; I used to bodyguard him. He taught me about confidence. So when it comes to any job I work, I’m gonna do it good; I’m going to bring it over the top.

There will be days when I walk in an arena and people will cheer and then there might be days when I walk in an arena and people might boo, but it all sounds the same to me because it’s all just noise that lets me know that I’m relevant.

You don’t carry in your countenance a letter of recommendation.

Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.

I like to take every day just searching my own heart, making sure that I’m on course, and I’m doing what God wants me to do. I’m real good with not looking to the critics and looking straight ahead.

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

I really love the culture of hip-hop.

It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

I don’t have a vast longing for the stage.

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

Never, never, never give up.

We can take a ‚It was hard to get there.‘ But we ain’t taking no loss. We’re going to win.

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

I always was that person who was hard on myself and challenged myself no matter what I was doing, whether it was passing third grade or playing basketball.

I love story songs because I’ve always loved books.

When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It’s very simple.

Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

Don’t ever doubt yourselves or waste a second of your life. It’s too short, and you’re too special.

My dream is to continue filming until my body tells me to stop.

What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.

When you’re around me and really see that all I do is live and breathe for my work, it’s not strange, it’s just Gaga.

Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.

It all went wrong with football, the thing I loved most of all, and from there, my life slowly fell apart.