I like to use the hard times in the past to motivate me today.

We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle.

Why go through life if you’re not going to challenge yourself?

The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.

If everything isn’t black and white, I say, ‚Why the hell not?‘

When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.

To our brothers in Latin America and the world, we must convey that the Cuban people will overcome.

There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can’t move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.

Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don’t go well.

You can’t hire someone to practice for you.

It is natural to want to have a future.

I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.

Winning is the most important. Everything is consequence of that.

Dave Mackay is my definition of a superstar. The man broke his leg three times, but wouldn’t be carried off. He walked off.

You have enough people against you… be for yourself.

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

I knew I wasn’t going to be a rocket scientist – let’s not be fools – but I wasn’t going to be a bum.

You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you’d experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it.

The experience of pain or loss can be a formidably motivating force.

A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.

There are some people who hate my guts. But that goes with the territory.

Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked.

I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine.

Once I’ve decided to do something, I do usually try to carry it through to fruition.

When people are around us, they should leave better off than they were previously. Rather than feeling discouraged or defeated, people should feel challenged and inspired after spending any time with you and me.

It must be quite mysterious to some people why I bother to carry on. Because, you know, I don’t sell that many records.

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.

Positional leaders ignore the fact that every person has hopes, dreams, desires, and goals of his own. And leaders must bring their vision and the aspirations of the people they lead together in a way that benefits everyone.

Be a player; don’t play yourself. And don’t play basketball. That’s not your sport, Jeb Bush.

Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.

‚They‘ is… stay away from them, please. There is so many different definitions of ‚they.‘ You might have a personal ‚they.‘ They against you; they want you broken and miserable. They don’t like winners; they don’t like people who’s blessed. So everybody’s got a different ‚they.‘

I’ll never, ever be full. I’ll always be hungry. Obviously, I’m not talking about food. Growing up, I had nothing for such a long time. Someone told me a long time ago, and I’ve never forgotten it, ‚Once you’ve ever been hungry, really, really hungry, then you’ll never, ever be full.‘

I have survivor’s curiosity, I guess.

If I should ever be captured, I want no negotiation – and if I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed – there’s so little competition.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

If you don’t like what you’re doing, then don’t do it.

That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.

There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.

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

Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you.

As a kid, I used to see how Sachin Tendulkar used to win matches under pressure for India in Sharjah or other places. So I was always keen to repeat the same in similar situations. I don’t take pressure on myself when I am in the middle. I love pressure, and I always believe that pressure makes you more focused.

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

Ambition has become a dirty word, and I believe it is a great evolutionary force for the positive. If people fail or go astray in their ambition I can live with it but not with people lowering their expectations, wasting time, slacking off and glorifying failure and stupidity.

Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.

I may not be where I want to be, but thank God I am not where I used to be.

You’ve got to go out on a limb sometimes because that’s where the fruit is.

I’m inspired by people who keep on rolling, no matter their age.

Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I’m fully behind.

Failure is nature’s plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.

I don’t have much positive to say about motor neuron disease, but it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I still could do. I’m happier now than before I developed the condition.

I didn’t die young. So I am very lucky. There are other artists and people that didn’t survive certain things… people can imagine that I did the most dangerous, and I did the worst… for many reasons, I shouldn’t be here.

Courage – you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn’t want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself.

You not supposed to feel down over whatever happen to you. I mean, you’re supposed to use whatever happen to you as some type of upper, not a downer.

All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.