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.

As a father, I always want my son to be perfect. When he was young, I tried to train him in martial arts, but he said, ‚I don’t want to become like Bruce Lee’s son, with everybody telling me how good my father was.‘ I just think my son is too lazy.

The PC has improved the world in just about every area you can think of. Amazing developments in communications, collaboration and efficiencies. New kinds of entertainment and social media. Access to information and the ability to give a voice people who would never have been heard.

There are people out there who hate me and who say I’m arrogant, vain, and whatever. That’s all part of my success. I am made to be the best.

If you’re afraid to fail, then you’re probably going to fail.

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.

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.

It’s not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It’s because we dare not venture that they are difficult.

I will not be triumphed over.

Around every corner, always protect the engine that powers you.

We must act out passion before we can feel it.

My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.

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.

Stand-up is my baby.

It doesn’t matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.

To the audience, it’s like I’m changing the subject every five seconds, but to me, my show’s almost like a 90-minute song that I know exactly. I wrote every note, and I know exactly where everything is.

It sounds simple telling people to work hard and never quit, but to really execute and demonstrate those principles takes discipline and faith. Those are the two factors that I believe separate the good from the great, the successes from the failures.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

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.

What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.

Winning takes precedence over all. There’s no gray area. No almosts.

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.

WWE is a space where I thrived, and I loved, and I still do. I love connecting with an audience; that is the greatest thing about going back to WWE.

You’ve really got to start hitting the books because it’s no joke out here.

That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?

Where the mind goes, the man follows.

There is no substitute for victory.

I have kind of a funny relationship with movies. I don’t have to see the whole movie to get an impression of it or to let it have an influence on me.

Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.

Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don’t have time for all that.

Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

The only way round is through.

I enjoy driving on the sim, doing stuff like that, staying at home.

Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.

The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.

One thing Britons have always been celebrated for, and that is being able to stick it out in a tight place.

A word after a word after a word is power.

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

We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.

My goals are so high that I don’t have time to relax in any way, shape or form.

Don’t compare yourself with other people; compare yourself with who you were yesterday.

If you get knocked down – setbacks in life, like applying for a job if they don’t hire you – keep trying, keep getting up, keep doing it.

Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

We all have a tendency to avoid our weaknesses. When we do that, we never progress or get any better.

You have to be smart. The easy days are over.

It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.

Ideas have a short shelf life. You must act on them before the expiration date.

The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it’s usually lousy.

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

A lot of people are focused on taking over the world or doing the biggest thing and getting the most users. I think part of making a difference and doing something cool is focusing intensely.

The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.

I focus on one thing and one thing only – that’s trying to win as many championships as I can.

‚They‘ is… stay away from them, please. There is so many different definitions of ‚they.‘ You might have a personal ‚they.‘ They against you; they want you broken and miserable. They don’t like winners; they don’t like people who’s blessed. So everybody’s got a different ‚they.‘

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

I’m inspired by people who keep on rolling, no matter their age.