I focus on one thing and one thing only – that’s trying to win as many championships as I can.

The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all.

You know, I’m trying to chase rings, and that’s all I’m about. So that’s where the conversation stops for me.

As far as a glass ceiling, I feel that all you can do is give it your absolute best with whatever gifts the universe has given you. And if you make it in some way that other people can recognize, that’s fine. But even if you don’t quote-unquote make it, you’re fine if you’ve given it your whole heart and soul.

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.

If I said I would knock out Sonny Liston in 1 minute and 49 seconds of the first round, that would hurt the gate.

God sent me on earth. He send me to do something, and nobody can stop me. If God want to stop me, then I stop. Man never can.

You know, I’m just 6’9 and 260. And just so happen to be very good at playing the game of basketball.“

I had practiced with the team, and the first scheduled game was with the University of Missouri. They made it quite clear to the Army that they would not play a team with a black player on it. Instead of telling me the truth, the Army gave me leave to go home.

I bade adieu to mechanical inventions, determined to devote the rest of my life to the study of the inventions of God.

When you can’t make them see the light, make them feel the heat.

With self-discipline most anything is possible.

I have never been bewildered for long in any fight with our enemies – I was Armed with Insight.

A lot of people from my generation of music are so focused on playing things correctly or to perfection that they’re stuck in that safe place.

I have a deep, deep belief that if I tell you I’m going to crack you with a clean shot to the chin inside one minute of the first round and you will be unconscious, well, then that’s what will happen.

Many times, we miss out on God’s best because we give up too soon. We don’t realize how close we are to victory.

Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.

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

Losing is not an option in Kolkata. It’s not easy, a lot of players even quit.

Once you get on the playing field it’s not about whether you’re liked or not liked. All that matters is to play at a high level and do whatever it takes to help your team win. That’s what it’s about.

If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn’t be here. I guarantee you that.

If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.

Not having hope is not an excuse for not doing something.

In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.

I just want to do well with the national team.

Nothing will work unless you do.

In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life – or at least the way life should be.

I am in the fighting game. I don’t care about anything else. I don’t watch the news, I don’t care about politics, I don’t care about other sports. I don’t care about anything I don’t need to care about. This is my sport: it is my life. I study it; I think about it all the time. Nothing else matters.

Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.

Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.

Contrary to popular belief, I don’t spend a whole lot of time following soccer. But as I have traveled around the world to better understand global development and health, I’ve learned that soccer is truly universal. No matter where I go, that’s what kids are playing. That’s what people are talking about.

If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

Without sounding biased, 70 days of football is not enough. Even if Messi plays 70 days he cannot be in the national team. You need to play around the year to be in contention for the national team.

At one point he decided enough was enough.

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.

A hundred struggle and drown in the breakers. One discovers the new world. But rather, ten times rather, die in the surf, heralding the way to that new world, than stand idly on the shore.

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.

All I can tell them is pick a good one and sock it. I get back to the dugout and they ask me what it was I hit and I tell them I don’t know except it looked good.

You can make a board for all the goals you want in your life with the pictures on it, and that’s great, daydreaming is wonderful, but you can never plan your future.

Positional leaders ignore the fact that every person has hopes, dreams, desires, and goals of his own. And leaders must bring their vision and the aspirations of the people they lead together in a way that benefits everyone.

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

Meditation is a state of mind which looks at everything with complete attention, totally, not just parts of it. And no one can teach you how to be attentive. If any system teaches you how to be attentive, then you are attentive to the system, and that is not attention.

Nothing surprises me anymore in the NFL.

Winning – that’s the most important to me. It’s as simple as that.

Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

I do understand it’s not easy to run an I-league club. I have been part of many and I know the scene.

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

Before success comes in any man’s life, he’s sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That’s exactly what the majority of men do.

Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.

To be able to finish opportunities that I do get in the paint, that makes a difference.

Even if soccer is not number one in the United States, they do things very well here. There’s much our country can learn from the U.S.A., because we all know that soccer is not the main game in India. We can still do more things, like provide better facilities for the players so they can perform well.

Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success.

I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.

Eradications are special. Zero is a magic number. You either do what it takes to get to zero and you’re glad you did it; or you get close, give up and it goes back to where it was before, in which case you wasted all that credibility, activity, money that could have been applied to other things.