I played a great horse yesterday! It took seven horses to beat him.

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

When you’re finished changing, you’re finished.

Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.

We all face storms in life. Some are more difficult than others, but we all go through trials and tribulation. That’s why we have the gift of faith.

I was born in Africa. I came to California because it’s really where new technologies can be brought to fruition, and I don’t see a viable competitor.

As a part of the NFL, things change every year.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.

I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.

It sounds simple telling people to work hard and never quit, but to really execute and demonstrate those principles takes discipline and faith. Those are the two factors that I believe separate the good from the great, the successes from the failures.

The Paralympic Games is about transforming our perception of the world.

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.

This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble.

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.

What keeps me going is goals.

I can’t do nothing just a little.

A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.

Never put your money against Cassius Clay, for you will never have a lucky day.

The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That’s what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they’ll go through the pain no matter what happens.

Don’t swap horses in crossing a stream.

I was a naturally aggressive left-back, a cut-throat tackler.

If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie, even though I have just landed on my head.

I was so used to going out and winning state championships and playing in the postseason.

I think we’re going to the moon because it’s in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It’s by the nature of his deep inner soul… we’re required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.

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.

To share the dressing room of club and country with Bhai was an amazing experience. I learnt a lot from him and other senior players like Renedy Singh.

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

All an agent is going to do is buy things for a player, damage his eligibility, and make the player dependent on them.

When you can’t make them see the light, make them feel the heat.

It doesn’t matter where you come from, what you have or don’t have, what you lack, or what you have too much of. But all you need to have is faith in God, an undying passion for what you do and what you choose to do in this life, and a relentless drive and the will to do whatever it takes to be successful in whatever you put your mind to.

The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.

My cash cows, the slick magazines, were put out of business by TV.

You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.

When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don’t throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.

Haitian rice farmers are quite efficient, but they can’t compete with U.S. agribusiness that relies on a huge government subsidy, thanks to Ronald Reagan’s free market enthusiasms.

Football changed my life and it gave me a platform to get out my aggression and it gave me a sense of value.

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end… I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

I will keep America moving forward, always forward, for a better America, for an endless enduring dream and a thousand Points of Light. This is my mission, and I will complete it.

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

After the 12th class exam results, I got a call from Mohun Bagan. They saw me at Durand Cup when I was playing for City Club of Delhi. I thought they might want me for SAIL Academy. Never ever I thought Mohun Bagan is calling me for Mohun Bagan!

A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.

I hope to play until I’m, like, 38 or something, and that’s a lot of years in the game and a lot of travel and a lot of sacrifice on my family’s part.

It’s rule number one, really – beating your teammate.

I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics are not so far apart in America. They are both a means to the same end, which is victory… And why not? Victory is good for you, and don’t let anybody tell you different.

Any man who has had the job I’ve had and didn’t have a sense of humor wouldn’t still be here.

There are a lot of inaccuracies out there when it comes to the SEAL training process. You will see guys carrying logs around on television. They think that the hardest part about being on a SEAL team is getting through that training. The fact of the matter is, if you have a good attitude, that training is fun. I had a blast.

We all started playing football against our best friends, and I can’t remember a moment where, because it was my best friend, I did not want to win against him.

February is always a bad month for TV sports. Football is gone, basketball is plodding along in the annual midseason doldrums, and baseball is not even mentioned.

In soloing – as in other activities – it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.

No matter what has happened to you in the past or what is going on in your life right now, it has no power to keep you from having an amazingly good future if you will walk by faith in God. God loves you! He wants you to live with victory over sin so you can possess His promises for your life today!

Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.

They say it is the first step that costs the effort. I do not find it so. I am sure I could write unlimited ‚first chapters‘. I have indeed written many.

Ordinarily, players fine-tune their match-fitness during the pre-season.