I get really motivated when I put on the India jersey. It is a responsibility, so I want to perform in the best way I can.

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

I’m responsible for starting a whole new school of pretension.

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

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

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.

Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?

It means, people who are in high and responsible positions, if they go against righteousness, righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer.

The other day the President said, I know you’ve had some rough times, and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you, in your maturity and sense of responsibility. He paused, then said, would you like a puppy?

It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

He incurs a fearful amount of guilt who in the least promotes the aim of the Evil One by trampling upon a tender conscience in a child.

Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.

Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that’s one of the hardest things to do because you don’t always know exactly where you’re going, and you shouldn’t.

From caring comes courage.

I’ve worked since I was a five-year-old to be a performer.

Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive.

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.

Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs.

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

You can’t do it unless you can imagine it.

I use my celebrity status to inspire someone, to give them hope.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

I don’t think the money people in Hollywood have ever thought I was normal, but I am dedicated to my work and that’s what counts.

You know, when I have a bad game, it continues to humble me and know that, you know, you still have work to do and you still have a lot of people to impress.

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

I think one of my pursuits over the years is trying to answer the question of, ‚What else can you do with a voice other than stand in front of a microphone and sing?‘

I’ve learned over the years that when I go to that place of passion within me, there’s no force in the universe that can interfere with my completing a project.

Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is usually painful.

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

If you want special results, you have to feel special things and do special things together. You can speak about spirit, or you can live it.

I never thought of losing, but now that it‘ s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That’s my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

Hope is not a resting place but a starting point – a cactus, not a cushion.

Some people say that the climate crisis is something that we will have created, but that is not true, because if everyone is guilty then no one is to blame. And someone is to blame.

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

I don’t want to hear the word ‚can’t.‘

You have to motivate yourself with challenges. That’s how you know you’re still alive.

I wonder how many times people give up just before a breakthrough – when they are on the very brink of success.

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

I’m definitely gaining new fans, and that’s the key of any success… gain more love.

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

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.

I never got into training to be an All-Ireland boxing champ or to win a belt. At the start, I just got into it to learn how to defend myself when I got into situations.

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don’t want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.

So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.

Virtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positive attitude.

Just do some kind of workout. Doesn’t matter if it’s going for a walk around the block, going for a jog, doing some calisthenics, lifting weights, going to a pool and swimming – you name it. But do something that gets your blood flowing and gets your mind in the game.

Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.