I just want to do well with the national team.

Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

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.

In business, success often depends upon the relative age of your ideas.

My main goal is to be a self-made man and have control over what’s mine.

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.

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.

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

Don’t think in the morning. That’s a big mistake that people make. They wake up in the morning and they start thinking. Don’t think. Just execute the plan. The plan is the alarm clock goes off, you get up, you go work out. Get some.

This ain’t fun. But you watch me, I’ll get it done.

People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.

People think that at the top there isn’t much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

The temptation to take the easy road is always there. It is as easy as staying in bed in the morning and sleeping in. But discipline is paramount to ultimate success and victory for any leader and any team.

Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn’t.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

I can tell you from experience that God’s help and presence in our lives is vital. He is the Author of all true success and everything that is good-without Him, we can do nothing of true value.

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‚What’s in it for me?‘

The important thing is that your teammates have to know you’re pulling for them and you really want them to be successful.

Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.

In inner-city, low-income communities of color, there’s such a high correlation in terms of educational quality and success.

Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.

I don’t think there’s been anything in the game of football in my lifetime that has changed college football more than redshirting.

A passionate belief in your business and personal objectives can make all the difference between success and failure. If you aren’t proud of what you’re doing, why should anybody else be?

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

It’s stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.

Getting rich is about fun. It’s a game, and you have to treat it that way.

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

Fun is one of the most important – and underrated – ingredients in any successful venture. If you’re not having fun, then it’s probably time to call it quits and try something else.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

We have a big appetite for putting people down but, at the heart of everyone, there’s enough room for all of us to succeed.

A lifetime contract for a coach means if you’re ahead in the third quarter and moving the ball, they can’t fire you.

I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.

Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.

Richard Burton came from the same town as me, so I thought I’d follow my nose, and follow my luck. I think I’ve been very lucky.

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.

I think that success is having fun.

I nearly failed when Virgin was in its infancy; I nearly failed in the early 1980s, and, of course, I have nearly died more than once trying to achieve a world record for boating or ballooning. But through a combination of luck and planning, both Virgin and I are still here.

The way I figured it, I was even with baseball and baseball with me. The game had done much for me, and I had done much for it.

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.

I definitely wasn’t anything special when I first started but I think I adapted quite quickly into racing and it became a bit better slowly. All of cadets, the first four years of karting, I only won one proper race, one! Which was the British Open Championship at PFI and I started 21st and I won.

I don’t think there is anything wrong in earning money from the sport you love. If you work hard and get benefits from it, there is no harm. The day you feel that you are not working hard and are only looking at the benefits, that’s where the problem is.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That’s what capitalism is all about.

God’s desire is that we excel.

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually it’ll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off.

I am a professional sportswriter, among other things, and I take the games seriously. It is only one of my many powerful addictions, and I don’t mind admitting any of them.

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football.

I was the one who took football off the back pages and put it on to page one.

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?

I want to elongate my cricketing career as a consistent player. I have personal goals I would like to achieve someday.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.

I just figured out that if I gave my all into this game – if I put everything into the fight business – then I would eventually run the fight business.