I definitely wasn’t anything special when I first started but I think I adapted quite quickly into racing and it became a bit better slowly. All of cadets, the first four years of karting, I only won one proper race, one! Which was the British Open Championship at PFI and I started 21st and I won.

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.

The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world.

A revolution is not a bed of roses.

I think that once you’ve had a few No. 1s in your career that you’ve kind of proven yourself, and I don’t feel the need to prove anything anymore.

How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?

There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature.

I’m not going to stop having problems.

I’m not going to get somewhere and say, ‚OK, I’m done.‘ Success is never final; I’ll just keep on going. The same way as failure never being fatal. Just keep going. I’m going to the stars and then past them.

To be successful, you need results in a row. You can’t win, lose, win, lose.

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

Never, never, never give up.

I kind of look up to Lewis, not as a hero, but as a very good driver who is very fast. Everyone has to admire his pace, especially in qualifying. He is a driver I support, in terms of him being British, and I want him to win, but he isn’t an idol to me.

If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.

The longer a man’s fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.

Most people don’t like change. They revolt against it unless they can clearly see the advantage it brings. For that reason, when good leaders prepare to take action or make changes, they take people through a process to get them ready for it.

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.

If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.

A BMW can’t take you as far as a diploma.

We aim above the mark to hit the mark.

I just want to do God’s will. And he’s allowed me to go to the mountain. And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.

All experience is an arch, to build upon.

If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you’ll be amazed at the results.

It’s a rule to give all, and it can make the difference if you work more. If you don’t have to give all, and you still win, what’s this?

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

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

I was asked to act when I couldn’t act. I was asked to sing ‚Funny Face‘ when I couldn’t sing, and dance with Fred Astaire when I couldn’t dance – and do all kinds of things I wasn’t prepared for. Then I tried like mad to cope with it.

But just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the constitution, sooner or later, you’ve got to compromise. You’ve got to start making the compromises that arrive at a consensus and move the country forward.

Whatever you want to do, do with full passion and work really hard towards it. Don’t look anywhere else. There will be a few distractions, but if you can be true to yourself, you will be successful for sure.

Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.

McLaren were one of the first teams I liked and supported.

Even though I had won in other categories, I didn’t have any expectations when I came into F1. Qualifying fifth, finishing sixth? I didn’t expect it.

The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

Today we say that the law of relativity is supposed to be true at all energies, but someday somebody may come along and say how stupid we were.

You can live within the institutions and work hard to change them.

Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer to your goal.

The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.

Surely the wake left behind by mankind’s forward march reveals its movement just as clearly as the spray thrown up elsewhere by the prow.

Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight – it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

The over-all point is that new technology will not necessarily replace old technology, but it will date it. By definition. Eventually, it will replace it. But it’s like people who had black-and-white TVs when color came out. They eventually decided whether or not the new technology was worth the investment.

I’ve got a woman’s ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

Lot of players lose hope because of lack of motivation.

If a whole bunch of people want to make your life a living hell, they’re gonna do it.

The same law takes place in a system, consisting of many bodies, as in one single body, with regard to their persevering in their state of motion or of rest. For the progressive motion, whether of one single body or of a whole system of bodies, is always to be estimated from the motion of the center of gravity.

If you are born an artist, you have no choice but to fight to stay an artist.

The one thing about the business of entertainment is that you have to learn patience.

The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good.

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.

If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun.

Obviously this song is an achievement for me in my career, but what makes me really feel good is to make Latinos feel proud. To provoke that pride that a pop figure and someone so big in music globally like Drake would sing with me completely in Spanish and create this hit ‚MIA.‘ That’s the best part of it.

It took me 40 years to write my first book. When I was a child, I was encouraged to go to school. I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death.

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

With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.