If I’d just tried for them dinky singles I could’ve batted around .600.

I have to admit, I sometimes wonder how much more successful I would have been as a coach had it not been for my spending summers on the golf course. I could have watched more film, that’s for sure. One advantage Joe Paterno had over me was that he didn’t play golf.

The first time I stepped on an NBA court I became a businessman.

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.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Thanks to my fans that have been with me from the beginning, I was able to sell out arenas on my own.

My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

The harder I work, the luckier I become.

You can’t try to do things; you simply must do them.

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

They used to call me ‚Touchdown T.‘ I remember in high school, we had homecoming, and I got in front of the pep rally, and I told them, ‚I’m going to run for three touchdowns.‘ I ran for three touchdowns, kicked the extra point, and took myself out the game.

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

Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.

In college, a loss is pretty devastating. That feeling kind of goes away in an 82-game season. You hate to lose, but you also have a lot more games to make up for it.

At 17, I went to Stanford University to study engineering. My time was occupied with the required reading and the extracurricular duties of managing the baseball and football teams and earning my way.

Imagine your family finally making it from nothing to something, and finally getting things going, and finally buying a beautiful house and taking care of your children – and the next day, it’s completely all gone. Zero. Boom. Flat broke. So that’s when I had to man up.

We’re constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.

Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real achievement is liking what you see in the mirror every morning.

It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.

Just because I managed to do a little something, I don’t want anyone back home to think I got the big head.

My priority is cricket. Everything that I get apart from it is a result of the effort on the field. Everything else follows. I am pretty aware of my priorities, and I don’t really focus on things that are not as important to me as cricket.

Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.

That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.

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

If you can build a business up big enough, it’s respectable.

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R & D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R & D. It’s not about money. It’s about the people you have, how you’re led, and how much you get it.

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.

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

As long as I am playing competitive football I am happy.

Don’t think in the morning. That’s a big mistake that people make. They wake up in the morning and they start thinking. Don’t think. Just execute the plan. The plan is the alarm clock goes off, you get up, you go work out. Get some.

I was sure I’d set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the truth – that I hadn’t set the world on fire, and I was totally unprepared to handle the consequences if ‚The Big Trail‘ had been a success and launched me as a star.

The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you, too, can be president of the United States.

I hit a grand slam off Ron Herbel and when his manager Herman Franks came out to get him, he was bringing Herbel’s suitcase.

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.

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!

The Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.

There is little success where there is little laughter.

He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.

They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?

If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative.

As a soccer player, I wanted an FA Cup winner’s medal. As an actor you want an Oscar. As a chef it’s three-Michelin’s stars, there’s no greater than that. So pushing yourself to the extreme creates a lot of pressure and a lot of excitement, and more importantly, it shows on the plate.

I seen a lot of artists be hot for a minute, and then that’s it, and somebody else come in.

If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.

If you made me the national commissioner of football, I’d tell you one thing that I would mandate. The second Saturday in September, we’re going to have conference day. Everybody from the SEC plays a Big 12 team. Everybody from the Big Ten is going to play the ACC. Everybody from the Big East is going to play the Pac-10.

I go to assume a task more difficult than that which devolved upon Washington. Unless the great God, who assisted him, shall be with me and aid me, I must fail; but if the same omniscient mind and almighty arm that directed and protected him shall guide and support me, I shall not fail – I shall succeed.

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

The best thing about the Kentucky Derby is that it is only two minutes long. It is the quickest event in sports, except for Sumo-wrestling & Mike Tyson fights. Maybe Drag-racing is quicker, but I have never been attracted to it.

Obedience brings success; exact obedience brings miracles.

If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

I wanted to sell a million records, and I sold a million records. I wanted to go platinum; I went platinum. I’ve been working nonstop since I was 15. I don’t even know how to chill out.

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful, that’s what matters to me.