I don’t know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.

My grandfather was one of the very, very first, if not the first, Samoan wrestlers to become known on a worldwide basis.

I’m gonna be making records anyway, even if I had to sell ‚em out of the trunk of my car. I’m that kind of musician and singer.

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last – but eat you he will.

You have to be smart. The easy days are over.

I’m proud of ‚Stop Making Sense,‘ but it’s a little bit of an albatross; I can’t compete with it, but I can’t ignore it either.

Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.

Why go through life if you’re not going to challenge yourself?

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.

Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.

Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it… Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.

To me, if life boils down to one thing, it’s movement. To live is to keep moving.

Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

The way I figured it, I was even with baseball and baseball with me. The game had done much for me, and I had done much for it.

I want to believe that I am improving. This is something that I take really seriously.

Things won are done, joy’s soul lies in the doing.

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.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one’s thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

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.

When I was nine years old, living on the south side of Chicago, my father was a minister and my mother used to scrub floors. I had seven brothers and four sisters. I told my mama, ‚One of these days I’m going to be big and strong and buy you a beautiful house.‘ That’s all I’ve ever wanted to do with my life, is to take care of my mother.

That is my wish, hope, instruction for all of you: Take your education seriously, okay? Always do that. Because I wouldn’t be here today if it weren’t for my education.

Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.

Our whole life is set up in the path of least resistance. We don’t want to suffer. We don’t want to feel discomfort. So the whole time, we’re living our lives in a very comfortable area. There’s no growth in that.

The first two games for Churchill, I was so jittery that I didn’t know what to do. I was running more but didn’t know what to do. I’ve no bones accepting the fact that I didn’t know what was happening in the game.

I believe you never get tired by doing work. You get tired when you don’t work. When you clean your house, you don’t get tired; it gives you satisfaction.

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.

You’re never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you’re never as bad as they say when you lose.

You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

I wanted to write when I was young, but people said it was impossible. Then my parents locked me in a mental institution – they said I was crazy and would never make a living from writing.

I was a Chicago Bulls, Michael Jordan fan growing up.

In this great country, we celebrate success. We don’t want to penalize those who have done well.

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

Becoming an inspiration for kids is great. I want to inspire them to do whatever they want to.

One thing that I find very unmotivating is the kind of Plan B argument: when Earth gets destroyed, you want to be somewhere else. That doesn’t work for me. We have sent robotic probes now to every place in the solar system, and this is the best one.

There is little success where there is little laughter.

Before you start a goal – let’s take care of our insecurities because they are going to surface when you put yourself in the crucible and you’re suffering.

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it.

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

No matter how beautiful a woman might be, you’re always threatened by certain… You’re always threatened by other women, period.

You can’t be afraid to fail. It’s the only way you succeed – you’re not gonna succeed all the time, and I know that.

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

The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

In India, people are really glued to the Premier League and La Liga.

I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way – I hope it never will.

When people are around us, they should leave better off than they were previously. Rather than feeling discouraged or defeated, people should feel challenged and inspired after spending any time with you and me.

What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn’t think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Live the life you’ve dreamed.

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football.

A coach, especially at a college level – much more at a college or high school level, than at a pro level – you’re more of a teacher than an actual coach.

If you get knocked down – setbacks in life, like applying for a job if they don’t hire you – keep trying, keep getting up, keep doing it.

I won’t accept anything less than the best a player’s capable of doing… and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!

I remember they used to tell me, they said, ‚Khaled, you can’t get a Rolls-Royce; you need to get one of them small ones.‘ So I went and bought a Phantom.

Don’t grow accustomed to living with less, doing less, and being less to the point that you eventually sit back and accept it.

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

You can’t die with an unfinished book.

If my edge is dull, my sword is dull, and I don’t want to fight another guy whose sword is dull. If you’ve got two steel swords going back and forth hitting each other, what’s gonna happen? Both of them are going to get sharper. Everybody that’s in the industry has lost their edge.