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

You either make dust or eat dust.

When I write, the story is always uppermost in my mind, and I feel that everything must be sacrificed to it. All elegant passages, all the curious details, all the so-called beautiful writing – if they are not truly relevant to what I am trying to say, then they have to go.

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.

The balloons only have one life and the only way of finding out whether they work is to attempt to fly around the world.

I’m a fighter, I’m a winner, and I’m not interested in just battling my team-mate for the back of the grid.

Nothing is stopping me from doing what I love to do.

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.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They’re just braver five minutes longer.

People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.

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

When I am working on a book or a story, I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you, and it is cool or cold, and you come to your work and warm as you write.

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.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

We come bulletproof in Ireland. We’re reared tough, and we fight.

If you ask people what they’ve always wanted to do, most people haven’t done it. That breaks my heart.

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.

Genius is patience.

Going to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years.

The secret is not to give up hope. It’s very hard not to because if you’re really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side.

I am prepared to resort to anything, to submit to anything, for the sake of the commonwealth.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

I was lucky – I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents‘ garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years, Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees.

Even though you are on the right track – you will get run over if you just sit there.

If we don’t succeed we run the risk of failure.

I like to take every day just searching my own heart, making sure that I’m on course, and I’m doing what God wants me to do. I’m real good with not looking to the critics and looking straight ahead.

Someone said to me, ‚If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no talent and should give up, what would you do?‘ My answer was then and still is, ‚If a hundred percent told me that, all one hundred percent would be wrong.‘

I am not afraid of saying something and going and pursuing it. That’s it. I see it in my mind. I say it out loud. I go and do it.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

People have asked me a lot of times, because I didn’t hit a lot, how long a dozen bats would last me. Depending on the weight and model I was using at that time – I would say eight to 10 cookouts.

I’m a football fan, a sports fan, a fan of competition.

The resolve of our great nation is being tested. But make no mistake, we will show the world that we will pass the test.

I never look at my watch when I’m sketching!

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.

Quitting doesn’t enter my mind.

The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.

I identify myself as a hustler since I was a young kid.

Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story.

Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.

I think the Iranians are clearly determined to have a nuclear program. And we have to assume that with a nuclear program they have the capability and the will to create a nuclear weapon.

Fighting for one’s freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.

Every artist wants something different out the game.

If you even dream of beating me you’d better wake up and apologize.

I’d be so bored if I wasn’t going out there, knowing that I could still do it. So, I’m going to work hard to be ready to go, and I still plan on playing for a long time.

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.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

When I won the Golden Gloves in 1960, that made me realize I had a chance. And when I won at the Olympics, that sealed it: I was the champ.

In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.

Make sure of your commitment to Jesus Christ, and seek to follow Him every day. Don’t be swayed by the false values and goals of this world, but put Christ and His will first in everything you do.

I noticed that when I touched the ball on the field, you could hear this shrill noise in the crowd with all the birds screaming like at a Beatles concert.

I guess for every driver the aim is to beat their teammate.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

I do not love to be printed on every occasion, much less to be dunned and teased by foreigners about mathematical things or to be thought by our own people to be trifling away my time about them when I should be about the king’s business.

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.

If you watch any good player, they’re using different parts of their body and working with instruments that respond to those movements. They’re moving in many dimensions at once.

Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.

As a part of the NFL, things change every year.

When I say something’s going to happen, it’s going to happen.