I have always thought I was the best ever player.

I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men.

Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.

Every time I get in the McLaren I feel more comfortable, my confidence increases and I feel more at home with the team.

I didn’t get trained by the school system like other kids, and when I did concentrate on learning, my mind was cluttered and locked by the programming of the system.

If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.

There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

What I’m asking for is hard. It’s easier to be cynical; to accept that change isn’t possible, and politics is hopeless, and to believe that our voices and actions don’t matter. But if we give up now, then we forsake a better future.

I was told that someone on Facebook said something ‚horrible‘ about me. Who cares? At least they’re watching the show.

Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.

A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.

Every man should know, if you’re comfortable and you like it, you should do it. Everyone always worries about what the girls think, what the guys think. If you like it, do it.

You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God, the most powerful; God, the giver of life; God, the creator of death. I mean, we’re hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary.

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.

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.

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

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.

Clinicians, academicians, and politicians are often put to a test of faith. In pursuit of their goals, will their religion show or will it be hidden? Are they tied back to God or to man?

I like playing. I wouldn’t be a good coach. I don’t have the patience to be a coach.

Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?

You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.

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.

Back in my days as a chemistry student, I used to be quite a technocrat. I was firmly convinced that scientists would have cornered God and photographed Him in color by 1951.

Nothing external to you has any power over you.

You don’t have to be somebody different to be important. You’re important in your own right.

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

People tend to play in their comfort zone, so the best things are achieved in a state of surprise, actually.

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.

The more players I have, the more difficult choices there are for me, but the better it is for LFC.

The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.

When a country has the skill and self-confidence to take action against its biggest problems, it makes outsiders eager to be a part of it.

My goal is to be number one in MMA.

David Beckham has never impressed me.

The highest revelation is that God is in every man.

I’m not sure what you need first – the players believing or others believing in them – but in the end, both have to think it.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

I know who I am, I know what I can and can’t do. I know what I will and won’t do. I know what I’m capable of and I don’t agree to do things that I don’t think I can pull off.

As a professional athlete a lot is going to be said about you – but I just try to move forward and try to achieve my goals.

If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.

I’m just glad I play for Coach Belichick.

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

I’m not going to lie; listen, I’m nice at basketball.

Highly functioning self-actualized people simply never imagine what it is that they don’t wish to have as their reality.

If we live a self-directed, self-motivated, self-centered life, always needing to get our own way, then we’re going to be miserable. In fact, many times we believe it’s our problems that are making us unhappy when, in reality, it’s because we’re focused on ourselves!

When the NBA adopted their uniform that they had to wear, I thought that was very interesting. And you see the way NBA players dress: It’s very cool.

I believe many people feel like God is mad at them. One day I put a post on Facebook that said, ‚God is not mad at you.‘ Within a few hours, we literally had thousands of positive responses from people saying things like, ‚That is exactly what I needed to hear today.‘ Obviously, this is a message we need to hear.

Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.

No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.

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.

Today, Negroes play on every big league club and in every minor league. With millions of other Negroes in other walks of life, we are willing to stand up and be counted for what we believe in. In baseball or out, we are no longer willing to wait until Judgment Day for equality – we want it here on earth as well as in Heaven.

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

Not only does God play dice, but… he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.

I’m no natural beauty. If I’m gonna have any looks at all, I’m gonna have to create them.

In England, you have stadiums in the middle of the city.

I’m a golfer, and what are the two sports you can do till you drop? Golf and surfing. They’re great for you limber-wise, they’re great for you health-wise, and they put you in sweet locations.