I just want to do well with the national team.

The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.

If I’d been born ugly, you’d never have heard of Pele.

Talking to a player helps, but in our sport the majority of learning happens from watching another player. You pick up things like being punctual, being nice to everyone, making sure you give your 100 per cent even in training.

Successful people will always tell you you can do something. It’s the people who have never accomplished anything who will always discourage you from trying to achieve excellent things.

While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.

I support Real Madrid. I’m a big fan of Cristiano Ronaldo.

A great mind becomes a great fortune.

I think my first thought on reaching the summit- of course, I was very, very pleased to be there, naturally – but my first thought was one of a little bit of surprise. I was a little bit surprised that here I was, Ed Hillary, on top of Mt. Everest. After all, this is the ambition of most mountaineers.

Football is a sad game.

Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.

To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.

You see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is very clear.

If you read enough biography and history, you learn how people have dealt successfully or unsuccessfully with similar situations or patterns in the past. It doesn’t give you a template of answers, but it does help you refine the questions you have to ask yourself.

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.

I feel like whatever you’ve done in your career, good or bad, it’s nothing but preparation for the big events to come.

I have really been disillusioned with soccer in England.

If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.

Fortunately for a quarterback, you can play for a long time because you don’t get hit very often.

In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.

Dream in a pragmatic way.

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm… in the real world all rests on perseverance.

You can’t knock on opportunity’s door and not be ready.

If a guy hits .300 every year, what does he have to look forward to? I always tried to stay around .190, with three or four RBI. And I tried to get them all in September. That way I always had something to talk about during the winter.

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven’t done anything today.

Wrestling is intimate. You can reach out and touch the wrestlers.

I used to play a lot of different sports. Now when I look back, I understand that it really helped with my hand-eye coordination.

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

Read a record number of books in a given month. If you’re focused on intellectual growth, train yourself to study harder and longer than ever before.

I had practiced with the team, and the first scheduled game was with the University of Missouri. They made it quite clear to the Army that they would not play a team with a black player on it. Instead of telling me the truth, the Army gave me leave to go home.

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.

What keeps me going is goals.

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

If you can dream it, you can do it.

I’m hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.

Football coaches don’t have real problems.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

Aim for the highest.

Your energy, your spirit are important considerations. Feeling petty and frustrated can have reverberating consequences for your ability to think strategically and reach your goals.

I plan on taking athletics as far as I can.

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.

If I’m a star, then the people made me a star.

I see myself as the best footballer in the world. If you don’t believe you are the best, then you will never achieve all that you are capable of.

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

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

I go to assume a task more difficult than that which devolved upon Washington. Unless the great God, who assisted him, shall be with me and aid me, I must fail; but if the same omniscient mind and almighty arm that directed and protected him shall guide and support me, I shall not fail – I shall succeed.

My songs are the door to every dream I’ve ever had and every success I’ve ever achieved.

I signed for Mohun Bagan and then I got the news that Bhaichung also joined the club. The first day he met me he told me that I have heard about you and you are doing well. I told everyone in my family and friends that Bhaichung told me that.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

You know, I’m just 6’9 and 260. And just so happen to be very good at playing the game of basketball.“