I know a lot of people say they always believed they could get into F1, but I didn’t quite believe that, certainly not when I was 7 and maybe not until I was 14. It was always so far away.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success.

God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.

My family has very strong women. My mother never laughed at my dream of Africa, even though everyone else did because we didn’t have any money, because Africa was the ‚dark continent‘, and because I was a girl.

Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.

I’ve always wanted to live above my means because it inspired me to work harder.

To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.

It seems like F1 is kind of going down that route, opening it up more to the public and letting them know what is going on, what you do, instead of just driving and going home.

I treated it like every day was my last day with a basketball.

You know, I’m trying to chase rings, and that’s all I’m about. So that’s where the conversation stops for me.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

I don’t believe in nepotism. I don’t much like the idea of parents who interfere.

Never be ashamed! There’s some who’ll hold it against you, but they’re not worth bothering with.

Never was anything great achieved without danger.

I’m not the sort to back away from a fight. I don’t believe in shrinking from anything. It’s not my speed; I’m a guy who meets adversities head on.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

They say miracles are past.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

Protect your enthusiasm from the negativity of others.

I believe in love at first sight. You want that connection, and then you want some problems.

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

I ain’t here to argue about his facial features. Or here to convert atheists into believers. I’m just trying to say the way school need teachers the way Kathie Lee needed Regis that’s the way yall need Jesus.

When we make progress quickly, it feeds our emotions. Then, when there’s a period of waiting or we hit a plateau, we find out how committed we really are and whether we’re going to see things through to the finish or quit.

If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.

I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.

Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn’t know how to get along without it.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

I believe that one person can make a difference.

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.

It is natural to want to have a future.

You just wait. I’m going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.

I believe things cannot make themselves impossible.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

I happen to believe there is evil in the world.

If an idea isn’t exciting, you shouldn’t do it.

Man is not born to atheism. He is born to believe.

I have worked hard since my childhood and worked as a labourer. I put my mind and heart into it.

I don’t believe in the after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

What interests me in life is curiosity, challenges, the good fight with its victories and defeats.

Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs.

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

Theology is unnecessary.

I’m used to seeing it, but it’s weird having an Academy Award. You usually only see one of them on the TV show when they give them out, so it’s kind of surreal to have one in your house.

Rule number one is: Beat your team-mate.

Choosing an attitude of faith will release peace out of your spirit and into your soul.

I believe that God has planted in every heart the desire to live in freedom.

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.

I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.

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.

To make America the greatest is my goal, so I beat the Russian and I beat the Pole. And for the U.S.A. won the medal of gold. The Greeks said, ‚You’re better than the Cassius of old.‘

Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.

Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.

A man who has no office to go, to I don’t care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.

There’s plenty about God that I don’t understand and can’t explain. But I come back to my core belief that God is good, that He’s for us.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.

Being no bigot myself to any mode of worship, I am disposed to endulge the professors of Christianity in the church, that road to heaven which to them shall seem the most direct plainest easiest and least liable to exception.

I love having my hands in the dirt. It is never a science and always an art. There are no rules. And if it comes down to me versus that weed I’m trying to pull out of the ground that doesn’t want to come out? I know I’ll win.