If I should ever be captured, I want no negotiation – and if I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.

Yeah, I wasn’t chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn’t planned by anyone.

Our diversity is our strength. What a dull and pointless life it would be if everyone was the same.

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’ve played with IVs before, during and after games. I’ve played with a broken hand, a sprained ankle, a torn shoulder, a fractured tooth, a severed lip, and a knee the size of a softball. I don’t miss 15 games because of a toe injury that everybody knows wasn’t that serious in the first place.

Many times, we miss out on God’s best because we give up too soon. We don’t realize how close we are to victory.

If you work hard and play by the rules, this country is truly open to you. You can achieve anything.

It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.

Exceeds man’s might: that dwells with the gods above.

A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.

I intend to live forever, or die trying.

The balloons only have one life and the only way of finding out whether they work is to attempt to fly around the world.

What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it’s a drag? But you see, that’s what people do.

Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven’t courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.

I have bad reflexes. I was once run over by a car being pushed by two guys.

Founding a company is hard. Most of it isn’t smooth. You’ll have to make very hard decisions. You have to fire a few people. Therefore, if you don’t believe in your mission, giving up is easy. The majority of founders give up. But the best founders don’t give up.

If you try to protect yourself from pain, it becomes a stone in your heart. But the more you learn to face things, the more likely that stone can become a pearl.

Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

When I meet people who say – which they do all of the time – ‚I must just tell you, my great aunt had cancer of the elbow and the doctors gave her 10 seconds to live, but last I heard she was climbing Mount Everest,‘ and so forth, I switch off quite early.

Losing is not an option in Kolkata. It’s not easy, a lot of players even quit.

Have you not learned that strength comes to an ordinary soul when given an extraordinary calling?

I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.

Ambition has become a dirty word, and I believe it is a great evolutionary force for the positive. If people fail or go astray in their ambition I can live with it but not with people lowering their expectations, wasting time, slacking off and glorifying failure and stupidity.

I know why we’re strong. I know why we have held together; I know why we are united: it’s because there’s always been a growing middle class.

When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.

Demonstrate to the world, there is ‚No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy‘ than a U.S. Marine.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Nobody’s ever said that pins are a tool of diplomacy.

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

Lots of young players have triumphed at United, so why can’t it happen to me? I’m not worried I’m young – it’s an incentive to do the best I can.

In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.

You can’t stop everything from happening. But we’ve gotten to a point where we’re certainly trying. If a car doesn’t have four hundred air bags in it, then it’s no good.

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

Really, you don’t lose until you stop trying.

We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.

It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.

Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

It constitutes a superhuman effort to lead any people in times of crisis. Without them, the changes would be impossible.

A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.

We can take a ‚It was hard to get there.‘ But we ain’t taking no loss. We’re going to win.

You should never view your challenges as a disadvantage. Instead, it’s important for you to understand that your experience facing and overcoming adversity is actually one of your biggest advantages.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

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.

Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.

The target of preventive war must have several characteristics. It must be virtually defenceless; it must be important enough to be worth the trouble; it must be possible to portray it as the ultimate evil and an imminent threat to our survival.

It’s not fun to get out of bed early in the morning. When the alarm goes off, it doesn’t sing you a song: it hits you in the head with a baseball bat. So how do you respond to that? Do you crawl underneath your covers and hide? Or do you get up, get aggressive, and attack the day?

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.

A warrior is not a person that carries a gun. The biggest war you ever go through is right between your own ears. It’s in your mind. We’re all going through a war in our mind, and we have to callus our mind to fight that war and to win that war.

Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn’t give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. That’s why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war.

Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.

Get busy living, or get busy dying.

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were – to the very last minute – a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!

I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.

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