I can hold my own when it comes to burping. I’ve got a good feeling that I could win a championship.

It’s important for me to let my fans know I really don’t care. I’m confident.

We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.

I think I am the greatest fighter in any class. I know I can hold two, maybe even three belts.

I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating… because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.

Writing is like anything else – the more you do it, the better you get at it, the easier it comes, and the less concerned you’ll be about what’s going to happen to it, where it’s going, what it sounds like, whether it’s right.

I seen a lot of artists be hot for a minute, and then that’s it, and somebody else come in.

In this industry, there’s a lot of cases of being a competitor in one way, but you’re often a customer and a vendor in another way. It’s not atypical in aerospace. Actually, it’s not that atypical in a lot of industries.

I just don’t feel like I have to explain myself.

Confidence, as a teenager? Because I knew what I loved. I loved to read; I loved to listen to music; and I loved cats. Those three things. So, even though I was an only kid, I could be happy because I knew what I loved.

If I had never ventured beyond being a stand-up comic, then I would be sitting in my house today working on my Leonardo DiCaprio impression.

Some people want to win races. Other people want to be President of the United States.

A lot of people have said I’d have probably done better in my career if I hadn’t looked so cheap and gaudy. But I dress to be comfortable for me, and you shouldn’t be blamed because you want to look pretty.

Honestly, I always believed in myself. For real, for real.

Performing is a thing in itself, a distinct skill, different from making recordings. And for those who can do it, it’s a way to make a living.

Fashion is that thing that saved me from being sad.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

It is a neck-and-neck race between Mr. Gray and myself who shall complete our apparatus first. He has the advantage over me in being a practical electrician – but I have reason to believe that I am better acquainted with the phenomena of sound than he is – so that I have an advantage there.

I expected to be a pretty good NBA point guard and hopefully win a championship. But MVP and all this stuff? Not really.

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

If you’re entering anything where there’s an existing marketplace, against large, entrenched competitors, then your product or service needs to be much better than theirs. It can’t be a little bit better, because then you put yourself in the shoes of the consumer… you’re always going to buy the trusted brand unless there’s a big difference.

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

Just as I wanted to outdo everyone when I played, I had to outdo everyone when we were out on the town.

Before ever meeting Priyanka Chopra, I had heard her name coming out of Bollywood and was impressed: she was beautiful, talented, had made nearly 50 movies, earned multiple awards – a massive star.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

I’ve always been a singer. I never really decided I was gonna be a singer. It just kind of – I just sung a lot.

Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.

Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.

I know what I believe, I know what I want to do, and I’m just comfortable saying it, and laying it out there.

I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while.

Fashion is here to help make people look very important. If they have good taste and choose what suits them, I give them options on how they can do that. It’s always sexy, and it’s always with the same result: making women look fantastic.

When someone bestows something on you, no matter how true it is, when someone says, ‚Sexiest Man Alive,‘ I’m honestly going, ‚Thank you. Right on.‘ For me, it’s never canceled out anything, it’s never made me go, ‚Does this make me less talented of an actor?‘

Britney Spears was an incredible dancer. That kid was amazing.

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.

I will fight in many weight divisions.

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

I was a good football player, and I had a chance to play with some great players.

Competition is a sin.

Look at the world. There is no pure competitor to the United States of America.

The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

If you are a small company taking on a big company, you need to have a sense of humor.

I’ve written some great things. That’s a gift, but there’s consequences. Yeah, you get this great work, but you suffer. You really, really suffer.

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

My name is Adam Sandler. I’m not particularly talented. I’m not particularly good-looking. And yet I’m a multi-millionaire.

All of my brothers and sisters are very talented. They all sang all right.

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

I’ve been a mogul and executive since the beginning of my career. People are just born with that skill.

All of us have been trained by education and environment to seek personal gain and security and to fight for ourselves. Though we cover it over with pleasant phrases, we have been educated for various professions within a system which is based on exploitation and acquisitive fear.

Never be ashamed! There’s some who’ll hold it against you, but they’re not worth bothering with.

Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.

Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.

You have to feel confident. If you don’t, then you’re going to be hesitant and defensive, and there’ll be a lot of things working against you.

It’s life isn’t it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels.

Why, if someone is good in one field can they not be accepted or given the slightest opportunity to express and be creative in other fields?

I believe that every person is born with talent.

It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.

I am sure as everyone knows that I am not the happiest if I don’t do a good job in qualifying or the race.

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