I had a good time boxing. I enjoyed it – and I may come back.

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

I am not someone who does a lot of exercise, so I attempt to maintain some sort of rhythm, and I think the jump rope is the funnest way. It’s easy, you can do it in your room or anywhere.

I love tango, and I used to dance when I was young.

Go as far as you can see; when you get there you’ll be able to see farther.

The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.

I wanted to get a job being creative, and I did.

All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me… You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

It is always your next move.

Why should I be studying for a future that soon may not exist?

I kept writing not because I felt I was so good, but because I felt they were so bad, including Shakespeare, all those. The stilted formalism, like chewing cardboard.

Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

I’ve been running a lot, taking care of myself.

I just think it is important that you realize, that you’re the best in the world. Whether you are a Democrat or Republican or whether you’re libertarian or whatever, you are the best. And we should not ever forget that. And when somebody does not do the job, we got to let them go.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure… than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

When you’re one of the leaders of the team, there are no days off.

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.

I want to represent… to the kids to draw strength from me. So they can see that everybody goes through something, but you can rise up and do your best. Just try.

I like surprises.

Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself.

We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

I am not designed to come second or third. I am designed to win.

When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, ‚Mine is not so bad as all that. She came through, and so can I.‘

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.

For different roles, my condition and training and diet does alter. Depending on the role, it will really dictate the type of training I do.

No boxer in the history of boxing has had Parkinson’s. There’s no injury in my brain that suggests that the illness came from boxing.

Once I get on a puzzle, I can’t get off.

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

Reading isn’t good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn’t hit home runs. So I gave up reading.

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

Let us be shy no longer. Let us go to our strength. Let us offer hope. Let us tell the world that a new age is not only possible but probable.

Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.

Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: ‚I’m with you kid. Let’s go.‘

Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life’s path.

It’s much more fun to play something you’re nothing like than what you are… It’s much easier to hide yourself in a character.

There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

There is one thing that gets you out of bed in the morning, and that is discipline. Because your dreams and your goals are not there waking up for you in the morning.

In all my work, I try to say – ‚You may be given a load of sour lemons, why not try to make a dozen lemon meringue pies?‘

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.

I’ll never, ever be full. I’ll always be hungry. Obviously, I’m not talking about food. Growing up, I had nothing for such a long time. Someone told me a long time ago, and I’ve never forgotten it, ‚Once you’ve ever been hungry, really, really hungry, then you’ll never, ever be full.‘

When I am playing baseball, I give it all that I have on the ball field. When the ball game is over, I certainly don’t take it home. My little girl who is sitting out there wouldn’t know the difference between a third strike and a foul ball. We don’t talk about baseball at home.

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.

It is fun to be in the same decade with you.

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.

We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society.

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

At the end of the day, I understand that life has road blocks, and life is like school – you’ll be tested; we gotta pass it.

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

I got a greater purpose. God put something in my heart to get across, and that’s what I’m going to focus on, using my voice as an instrument and doing what needs to be done.

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.