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.

It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.

In difficult times, we’re not supposed to quit believing; we’re not supposed to quit growing.

Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.

My priority is cricket. Everything that I get apart from it is a result of the effort on the field. Everything else follows. I am pretty aware of my priorities, and I don’t really focus on things that are not as important to me as cricket.

I believe the scripture says that being gay is a sin.

Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

I believe there are no questions that science can’t answer about a physical universe.

Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.

Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

The more nobly a man wills and acts, the more avid he becomes for great and sublime aims to pursue. He will no longer be content with family, country, and the remunerative aspect of his work. He will want wider organisations to create, new paths to blaze, causes to uphold, truths to discover, an ideal to cherish and defend.

I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working proposition as any one of the axioms of physics.

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

I know I’m a good professional, I know that no one’s harder on me than myself and that’s never going to change, under any circumstances.

To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn’t everything.

When it all got taken away, I was becoming a young man. So I had to sacrifice to leave my family… Sleeping in my car, getting an apartment for a month and getting evicted the next month. Staying in the $25, $50 hotels.

Indians felt despondent about Indian governance. Changing that atmosphere of gloom was a very challenging task, and I faced many difficulties in rectifying the situation and bringing back confidence and hope.

My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring still.

At one point he decided enough was enough.

I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.

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.

When I do something, I do it full steam ahead.

I am confident I will set foot again in Tibet in my lifetime.

The future rewards those who press on. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I’m going to press on.

An economist’s guess is liable to be as good as anybody else’s.

People make jokes about my bosoms, why don’t they look underneath the breasts at the heart? It’s obvious I’ve got big ones and if people want to assume they’re not mine, then let them.

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

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.

I love money because I’ve earned it. I won sixty G’s with my first knockout – and the week before, I was collecting social welfare.

I like to work and am a focused person.

People think hard sparring will get you sharp. And you do get sharp in the gym. But anytime I’ve trained that way, I’ve actually been a little bit flatter in the fight. And the knockout shot hasn’t come. It’s almost because my training has been too hard.

The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.

People always tell you, ‚Be humble. Be humble.‘ When was the last time someone told you to be amazing? Be great! Be great! Be awesome! Be awesome!

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

Religion is the opium of the masses.

There is no hope of anyone going to Heaven unless they believe this truth I am presenting. You cannot go to Heaven unless you believe with all your heart that Jesus took your place in Hell.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

I won at every level – all the way since I started playing the game of basketball at nine. I’ve won at every level, won championships at every level. And, you know, it won’t be fulfilled until I win at the highest level.

And, honestly, if somebody wants to criticize me for not being a trainwreck, that’s fine with me!

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.

In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

I don’t think there’s anyone who would say they don’t want or need more of God’s power in their life.

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.

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

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

It’s not ‚can‘; it’s ‚will.‘ You have to will things into fruition.

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

I believe many people feel like God is mad at them.

I don’t know what drives me to succeed.

I don’t argue when people say that my message is simple, but I believe Jesus‘ message was simple.

I believe that I’m one of the best in the world at what I do, and that’s all I’ve ever wanted to be.

I believe in God – not in a Catholic God; there is no Catholic God. There is God, and I believe in Jesus Christ, his incarnation. Jesus is my teacher and my pastor, but God, the Father, Abba, is the light and the Creator. This is my Being.

If you are part of a religion that very strongly insists that you believe then to decide not to do that is quite a big hurdle to jump over. You never forget the thought process you went through. It becomes part of your whole intellectual picture.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

I have my flaws too, but I am a professional who doesn’t like to miss or lose.

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