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

Without sounding biased, 70 days of football is not enough. Even if Messi plays 70 days he cannot be in the national team. You need to play around the year to be in contention for the national team.

I’m proud to play for Real Madrid because I have fun; when you no longer have fun it’s a sign that it’s time to leave. For now though, I’m happy here at the greatest club in the world.

Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that’s one of the hardest things to do because you don’t always know exactly where you’re going, and you shouldn’t.

Hollywood has a way of making everything seem like an overnight success.

I just owe almost everything to my father and it’s passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

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

Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.

I’ve thought sometimes about what I like about football, and it’s playing together.

The reward of a thing well done is having done it.

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God’s help I shall succeed.

I wasn’t born a natural entrepreneur. I had to be trained.

Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.

If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.

Collegiality is crucial to the success of our mission. We could not do the job the Constitution assigns to us if we didn’t – to use one of Justice Antonin Scalia’s favorite expressions – ‚Get over it!‘

Sports are basically our way of feeling sorry for ourselves. Most men can’t become athletes. We’re watching guys who actually made it. We see them dunking and making touchdowns. Then we think about ourselves when we were younger.

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.

I’m always asked, ‚What’s the secret to success?‘ But there are no secrets. Be humble. Be hungry. And always be the hardest worker in the room.

The best augury of a man’s success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.

He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.

There are millions of Americans outside Washington who are tired of stale political arguments and are moving this country forward. They believe, and I believe, that here in America, our success should depend not on accident of birth, but the strength of our work ethic and the scope of our dreams.

What one has to do usually can be done.

To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread.

Cardi B put a lot of work in.

I think, because I started Virgin when I was a teenager, it has become a part of me, like my family, and I am motivated by ambition for it, almost as if it were a child.

Football is big business – you can’t get away from it. But you have to separate that side from the playing.

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

I wanted to get a job being creative, and I did.

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.

I calculate that I took 20,000 punches, but I earned millions and kept a lot of it. I may talk slow, but my mind is OK.

The more minutes you play and the more grind and physical play you endure through the course of a season, you have to re-charge and get your body right for the next season. Be in that weight room and conditioning and that kind of deal.

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.

Success isn’t supposed to happen, no matter how hard you work. There’s no guarantee you’re going to succeed. There’s nothing set in stone.

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

Too many people measure how successful they are by how much money they make or the people that they associate with. In my opinion, true success should be measured by how happy you are.

The more centuries that I am able to score, the happier I will be.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

Our Heavenly Father loves you. He has created you to be successful and to have joy.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.

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.

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

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

The more successful I become, the more I need a man.

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.

I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

Believe it or not, I was just given an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Tennessee.

I think if I keep working in the way that I am, from the heart and from passion and with love, well, the fruits of that will keep coming.

Everything I have, my career, my success, my family, I owe to America.

You’re always learning. The problem is, sometimes you stop and think you understand the world. This is not correct. The world is always moving. You never reach the point you can stop making an effort.

That is my wish, hope, instruction for all of you: Take your education seriously, okay? Always do that. Because I wouldn’t be here today if it weren’t for my education.

I’ve been so blessed to play for the greatest coach at a time when our organization has done incredible things. I’ve played with the best teammates. Playing for Mr. Kraft and what his influence on the team has been.

It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

All my life, I’ve been trying to make a hole-in-one. The closest I’ve come is a bogey.

I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics are not so far apart in America. They are both a means to the same end, which is victory… And why not? Victory is good for you, and don’t let anybody tell you different.