I don’t think a coach becomes the right coach until he wins a championship.

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

A hustler has to deal with danger and risk. It’s part of the game. You cannot control it all, nor would you want to. Chaos, unknown factors are not something to be anxious about.

I try to use my experience and the fact that I grew up in the ghetto – I tell people you don’t have to rob or steal to get out of the ghetto.

Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, seek to be worthy of being known.

If you work hard and play by the rules, this country is truly open to you. You can achieve anything.

A lot of artists fail when they try to act, and they flop. So when I get into acting, it’s going to be to do it well, something good, something of quality. I want people to say, ‚Wow, that movie‘ – or that show or whatever – ‚turned out really well.‘

I stayed true to my dreams and, eventually, they came true.

What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.

In England, when an athlete gets to the top, we do our best to destroy him.

My first win feels better than a draw!

Even the best and biggest teams in the world do not reach finals of tournaments.

As long as I am playing competitive football I am happy.

I remember talking with Arcade Fire after their first record, when they were getting all kinds of offers from major labels, and I don’t think I gave them any advice. They survived that whole onslaught pretty well anyway without me.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

A passionate belief in your business and personal objectives can make all the difference between success and failure. If you aren’t proud of what you’re doing, why should anybody else be?

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

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.

The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?

Oh, I can’t play soccer, and I’m not a great swimmer. I won’t drown, but you won’t see me doing laps in a pool.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.

I think when smallpox was eliminated, the whole world got pretty excited about that because it’s just such a dramatic success.

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

Educate the masses, elevate their standard of intelligence, and you will certainly have a successful nation.

As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.

We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.

You might win some, you might lose some. But you go in, you challenge yourself, you become a better man, a better individual, a better fighter.

Ordinarily, players fine-tune their match-fitness during the pre-season.

Magic has five championships. I have five championships. I’m pretty sure we both know what we’re doing.

Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn’t.

I signed for Mohun Bagan and then I got the news that Bhaichung also joined the club. The first day he met me he told me that I have heard about you and you are doing well. I told everyone in my family and friends that Bhaichung told me that.

The Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.

To share the dressing room of club and country with Bhai was an amazing experience. I learnt a lot from him and other senior players like Renedy Singh.

I wish I could give you a lot of advice, based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don’t have that experience. My only experience is at losing them.

You aren’t going to find anybody that’s going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance.

We’ve had three big ideas at Amazon that we’ve stuck with for 18 years, and they’re the reason we’re successful: Put the customer first. Invent. And be patient.

There is a soak-the-rich attitude in the air, a feeling that if you have a lot of money you must have got it by some ghastly means. I can quite happily say there was never any family money. All the money we got was mine, just from writing books.

I’m really a normal football manager.

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

The important thing is that your teammates have to know you’re pulling for them and you really want them to be successful.

There are no pleasures in a fight but some of my fights have been a pleasure to win.

Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they’ve taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences.

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

In order to become prosperous, a person must initially work very hard, so he or she has to sacrifice a lot of leisure time.

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.

I am fortunate to have played 15 years for my country.

What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Just remember, you can’t climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.

We have a big appetite for putting people down but, at the heart of everyone, there’s enough room for all of us to succeed.

‚Soul Plane‘ put me in a position to succeed. I’m glad I had the opportunity to be the lead man.

I’ve made money, and I’ve been ripped off. I’ve had creative freedom, and I’ve been pressured to make hits. I have dealt with diva behavior from crazy musicians, and I have seen genius records by wonderful artists get completely ignored. I love music. I always will.

Don’t wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.

We was able to become real successful in the mixtape space.

The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.

The Paralympic Games is about transforming our perception of the world.

I’ve never gone into business to make money. Every Virgin product and service has been made into a reality to make a positive difference in people’s lives. And by focusing on the happiness of our customers, we have been able to build a successful group of companies.