I tend not to really think about what other people say. I’d rather just try and focus on what I’m doing, try and win basically.

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

Life’s too short to deal with other people’s insecurities.

Defeat doesn’t finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he’s defeated. He’s finished when he quits.

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

The best way out is always through.

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

I’ve never lived my life in the opinion of others. I believe I’m a good person. I believe I’m a good mom. But that’s for my kids to decide, not for the world.

We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.

Successful people will always tell you you can do something. It’s the people who have never accomplished anything who will always discourage you from trying to achieve excellent things.

I’m a big perfectionist! I’m trying to channel super-confident women like Alicia Keys, Mariah Carey and Beyonce, because I realized that if you want something, you really have to go for it, just like they do.

My unpredictability is what separates me. If you move in so many ways, your opponent is not focused on what he’s doing. He’s focusing in on what you’re doing, and it freezes him. When they freeze and you hit, they shatter like glass.

So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.

Anytime someone tells me that I can’t do something, I want to do it more.

This ain’t fun. But you watch me, I’ll get it done.

I’m bloody awful at multi-tasking.

I’m proof against that word failure. I’ve seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

I don’t believe in pessimism. If something doesn’t come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it’s going to rain, it will.

Under the worst conditions, horrendous conditions, people still, you know, fight for their rights and don’t just succumb.

You must take the compromise to win, or else nothing. That means: you race or you do not.

Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.

I will never retire unless I have to.

I want to appeal to everyone. Because I’m not saying I’m the best, but we the best.

I always say that women should wear whatever makes them feel good about themselves. That’s what I always try to do.

I have often been asked what I think about at the moment of take-off. Of course, no pilot sits and feels his pulse as he flies. He has to be part of the machine. If he thinks of anything but the task in hand, then trouble is probably just around the corner.

I go down the street, people see me: ‚Hey, I pity-‚ right on, man, that’s a compliment to me.

Frustration is a sign I am acting independently. The more you try your own way, the tighter the doors will stay closed.

When I get on a roll with something, it’s really hard for me to put it down unfinished.

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.

In the book of Gaga, fame is in your heart, fame is there to comfort you, to bring you self-confidence and worth whenever you need it.

I still think I am the greatest.

I’m mortified to be on the stage, but then again, it’s the only place where I’m happy.

I have a deep, deep belief that if I tell you I’m going to crack you with a clean shot to the chin inside one minute of the first round and you will be unconscious, well, then that’s what will happen.

I’m not going to get somewhere and say, ‚OK, I’m done.‘ Success is never final; I’ll just keep on going. The same way as failure never being fatal. Just keep going. I’m going to the stars and then past them.

I’m just a kid that defied the odds. I’m just a kid that ignored the doubt. I’m just a kid from a little place in Dublin, Ireland, that went all the way, and I’m going to continue to go all the way.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

I think the Iranians are clearly determined to have a nuclear program. And we have to assume that with a nuclear program they have the capability and the will to create a nuclear weapon.

In my studio, it is unkempt and unattractive. Once I’m in my work, I don’t notice where I am.

People have to understand one thing: at the age of 18, I arrived at a dream club like Manchester United. It was a dream come true. But, even at that moment, I was thinking about playing in England for some years and then going to play in Spain. Even at that time I was thinking that way, and I always gave 100% everything.

It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win, second or third place is not enough.

It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

I’m not intimidated by how people perceive me.

I often joke that 100 years from now I hope people are saying, ‚Dang, she looks good for her age!‘

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time.

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.

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.

Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.

I want to believe that I am improving. This is something that I take really seriously.

We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges.

I was lucky – I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents‘ garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years, Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees.

And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.

I believe that I’m one of the best in the world at what I do, and that’s all I’ve ever wanted to be.

I just figured out that if I gave my all into this game – if I put everything into the fight business – then I would eventually run the fight business.

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.