I see myself as the best footballer in the world. If you don’t believe you are the best, then you will never achieve all that you are capable of.

I’m really a normal football manager.

When I came up to bat with three men on and two outs in the ninth, I looked in the other team’s dugout and they were already in street clothes.

Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.

True politeness consists in being easy one’s self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

Anytime I feel lost, I pull out a map and stare. I stare until I have reminded myself that life is a giant adventure, so much to do, to see.

Serious sport is war minus the shooting.

What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.

People want you to fail.

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.

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

If you stop struggling, then you stop life.

Maybe other people will try to limit me but I don’t limit myself.

Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.

Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.

People always say that you can’t please everybody. I think that’s a cop-out. Why not attempt it? ‚Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.

The only shame is to have none.

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.

People have asked me a lot of times, because I didn’t hit a lot, how long a dozen bats would last me. Depending on the weight and model I was using at that time – I would say eight to 10 cookouts.

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

I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.

You have to stay faithful to what you’re working on.

You must reward the kind of behavior that you want.

I think the great part about what I do is that there’s a scoreboard. At the end of every week, you know how you did. You know how well you prepared. You know whether you executed your game plan. There’s a tangible score.

Duke is an ugly word in Kentucky. Nothing in the world compares to the joy of beating those hateful swine from Duke.

Anger is wonderful. It keeps you going. I’m angry about bankers. About the government.

I don’t want no handouts. I want to get it out the mud.

You can say that 2016 was my finest. It went well for the national team, started by winning the SAFF Cup, we reached the finals of AFC Cup, we reached the semis of ISL. I think it was a fruitful season.

We don’t want to wait on someone to hire us and give us a check. We want to create our own opportunities.

I am not handsome or sexy. Of course, it’s not like I am hopeless.

Wrestling is intimate. You can reach out and touch the wrestlers.

If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that… I believe in what I do, and I’ll say it.

What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?

Eradications are special. Zero is a magic number. You either do what it takes to get to zero and you’re glad you did it; or you get close, give up and it goes back to where it was before, in which case you wasted all that credibility, activity, money that could have been applied to other things.

It was clear to me that if I could get through Princeton at the top of my class, I could do anything in the world.

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

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

My enthusiasm seems to cause my world to endlessly offer me cooperative, co-creating experiences. I’m willing and I’m eager, and not just about my writing – I feel the same way about staying in shape, enjoying my family, giving a lecture, or whatever it may be.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel normal in your life or your work or even your darkest vices, you won’t have to go looking for trouble, because trouble will find you. Count on it.

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

People’s blessings give you the power to work tirelessly. The only thing required is commitment.

Whatever you do, do with all your might.

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.

I’ve always been privileged to play for Coach Belichick, who I’ve always said is the best coach in the history of the league.

Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.

There is no man on Earth or devil in Hell who can keep you from the very best God put in you.

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

I used to feel unsafe right in the moment of an accomplishment – I felt the ground fall from under my feet because this could be the end. And even now, while everyone is celebrating, I’m on to the next thing. I don’t want to get lost in this big cushion of success.

Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.

That’s when you know you’re the greatest: when you’re the greatest, and people still put odds against you.

In this great country, we celebrate success. We don’t want to penalize those who have done well.

There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we’ve got a system that allows them to do it.