I pity the fool who just gives up.

If it wasn’t for the fun and money, I really don’t know why I’d bother.

You aren’t going to find anybody that’s going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance.

I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.

Faith activates God – Fear activates the Enemy.

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

All great achievements require time.

I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.

Big results require big ambitions.

What you don’t do can be a destructive force.

The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure.

Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is usually painful.

When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

People don’t care about what someone says about you in a movie – or even what you say, right? They care about what you build. And if you can make something that makes people’s life better, then that’s something that’s really good.

I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.

Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

Players now have a groin injury for months and months, and I often think they don’t really give a toss whether they’re playing or not because they’re getting paid anyway.

Wine gives a man nothing… it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.

It’s really hard to guarantee things in life. I guarantee if you get up in the morning and you work out, and you work hard, you will have a better day – 100% guaranteed.

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 tell me there’s something I can’t do, I’ll want to do it even more. Especially when it comes to entertaining.

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

‚Victory‘ is like, you won, so the question is, what? What did you win? I think that the songs go into that. It’s just about reaching a place in myself.

To have a comeback, you have to have a setback.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

You know, there is always times where you feel discouraged and things coming against you, but I don’t know if I ever wanted to throw in the towel.

It’s lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.

To become ‚unique,‘ the challenge is to fight the hardest battle which anyone can imagine until you reach your destination.

‚Victory Lap,‘ even the title. It’s the accumulation of trial and error; that’s what I represent; trial and error.

I would rather make my name than inherit it.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

You have enough people against you… be for yourself.

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.

One’s only rival is one’s own potentialities. One’s only failure is failing to live up to one’s own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.

We’re going to be OK because of the American people. They have more grit, determination and courage than you can imagine.

Years ago I met Richard Burton in Port Talbot, my home town, and afterwards he passed in his car with his wife, and I thought, ‚I want to get out and become like him‘. Not because of Wales, because I love Wales, but because I was so limited as a child at school and so bereft and lonely, and I thought becoming an actor would do that.

Choose people who lift you up.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

It’s certainly not wrong to want to be a better person. God gave us that desire.

He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

When a person starts to talk about their dreams, it’s as if something bubbles up from within. Their eyes brighten, their face glows, and you can feel the excitement in their words.

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Certainly it is valuable to a trained writer to crash in an aircraft which burns. He learns several important things very quickly. Whether they will be of use to him is conditioned by survival. Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-important to a writer.

So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.

The left paw has done me well over the years. I’m not a scientist, I’m a martial artist.

People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

I don’t want to hear the word ‚can’t.‘

Begin – to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.

You were not created to just get by with an average, unrewarding, or unfulfilling life. God created you to leave your mark on this generation.

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

The good part about youngsters is that they are so fearless. You want to be like them.

We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

Mr. T. been to chemo, Mr. T been to radiation, hair fall out… but he’s back. Now I can give hope when I go to the hospital, see the sick kids with cancer, tell them, don’t quit.

Stay hungry, stay foolish.

When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.

Siren voices tell me, ‚You don’t have to keep going on.‘ And then you think, ‚I’m a writer. What do I do? Sit there watching my wife clean up?‘ I don’t know. I like being a writer.