I won at every level – all the way since I started playing the game of basketball at nine. I’ve won at every level, won championships at every level. And, you know, it won’t be fulfilled until I win at the highest level.

If you watch me during the game, I celebrate when we press the ball and it goes out.

I certainly would not like to end up in a tie-up with Ms. Rousey.

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

No boxer in the history of boxing has had Parkinson’s. There’s no injury in my brain that suggests that the illness came from boxing.

I want to let you in on a little secret: I don’t always feel like I’m a success. That’s right. There are plenty of times when I feel like I’ve just totally messed up and failed to connect with the people I’m trying to communicate with.

Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.

Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.

Hip hop has always been braggin‘ and boasting and ‚I’m better at you than this‘ and ‚I’m better at you than that.‘

I’ve heard there are troubles of more than one kind; some come from ahead, and some come from behind. But I’ve brought a big bat. I’m all ready, you see; now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!

At first, I was called a quack, a charlatan, and worse, year after year, in Australia, England and the United States, by men who simply refused to believe that a nurse from ‚the bush‘ could devise a treatment which succeeded where they had failed.

He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.

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.

My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe; I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession.

My dad always said, ‚Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.‘

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

It is easier to stay out than get out.

I had a lot of success from the start. I never really was tested for long periods of time. I got my first professional job while I was a senior in college. I signed with the William Morris Agency before I graduated.

Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.

You have to be a bastard to make it, and that’s a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.

When I won the first Grammy, there was no other feeling like that feeling. It just made me feel like I came so far, like that was just a dream a few years before that, and then it was happening right then.

I’m an entrepreneur. I’m a young mogul. I’m blessed.

The old Dodgers were something special, but of my teammates overall, there was nobody like Pee Wee Reese for me.

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm… in the real world all rests on perseverance.

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.

Glory lies in the attempt to reach one’s goal and not in reaching it.

What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes – ah, they have all the necessary leisure.

Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

With Kansas, I had a four-year deal. The initial two months were real tough. I had to adjust a lot. Then, things started looking up.

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.

I didn’t have to win, and winning wasn’t important to me. Being world champion wasn’t important to me. What was important to me was entertaining the audience, and whether that meant winning, losing, singing, or whatever it was on the live show we were doing every week, which was awesome, I was game for it.

We come bulletproof in Ireland. We’re reared tough, and we fight.

The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.

As long as somebody finances you, can make a film and get it seen any place and in any language; then, hopefully, it’s a success.

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.

Refuse to be a lazy Christian, and resist a passive, apathetic attitude.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

It’s stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.

I’ve accomplished enough with the music that I haven’t had to go out there and do other things to over-saturate.

Never, never, never give up.

I’m a pretty good winner. I’m a terrible loser. And I rub it in pretty good when I win.

The more nobly a man wills and acts, the more avid he becomes for great and sublime aims to pursue. He will no longer be content with family, country, and the remunerative aspect of his work. He will want wider organisations to create, new paths to blaze, causes to uphold, truths to discover, an ideal to cherish and defend.

The first time I used a simulator was in 2014 when I was competing in the Ginetta Junior Championship.

Don’t wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.

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.

I can remember earning £5,000 a game playing for Hibs at the end of the Seventies. They let me commute from London, train on the Friday and play on Saturday. That lasted until my friends at the Inland Revenue decided to take two-thirds. That wasn’t very entertaining for me.

We will be more successful in all our endeavors if we can let go of the habit of running all the time, and take little pauses to relax and re-center ourselves. And we’ll also have a lot more joy in living.

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.

It feels good being a restaurant owner because it’s part of my dreams of being the biggest mogul.

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

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I’ll rise.

If two smart, intelligent, clever guys sit together on a table, and you both want the same, where can be the problem? We all want to be successful.

People think that at the top there isn’t much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

We want to play the AFC Cup every year.

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.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Bayern want a decade of success like Barca. That’s OK if you have the money because it increases the possibility of success. But it’s not guaranteed.