If you’re bored with life – you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things – you don’t have enough goals.

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

You just wait. I’m going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.

Players now have a groin injury for months and months, and I often think they don’t really give a toss whether they’re playing or not because they’re getting paid anyway.

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

When I wake up, I expect things to be good. If they’re not, then I try to set about trying to make them as good as I can ‚cause I know I’m gonna have to live that day anyway. So why not try to make the most of it if you can? Some days, they pan out a little better than others, but you still gotta always just try.

The only way you gain mental toughness is to do things you’re not happy doing. If you continue doing things that you’re satisfied and make you happy, you’re not getting stronger. You’re staying where you’re at. Either you’re getting better, or you’re getting worse. You’re not staying the same.

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

We will move forward, we will move upward, and yes, we will move onward.

Want balance in your life? Then sure, get your own act together, but don’t forget four powerful disciplines of execution in your team and organization.

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

I wonder how many times people give up just before a breakthrough – when they are on the very brink of success.

The companies that work are the ones that people really care about and have a vision for the world so do something you like.

If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.

If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go.

I only want my work to make people happy.

I never cut class. I loved getting A’s, I liked being smart. I liked being on time. I thought being smart is cooler than anything in the world.

It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.

The moment the alarm goes off is the first test; it sets the tone for the rest of the day. The test is not a complex one: when the alarm goes off, do you get up out of bed, or do you lie there in comfort and fall back to sleep? If you have the discipline to get out of bed, you win – you pass the test.

I like money, but it’s never been about the money.

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

In all my work, I try to say – ‚You may be given a load of sour lemons, why not try to make a dozen lemon meringue pies?‘

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

If you want to reach the top, don’t run over others. Likely, the only way you’ll reach the top is to be carried there by others.

I just want to do well with the national team.

You always want your people to be proud of what you have accomplished.

The best workers, like the happiest livers, look upon their work as a kind of game: the harder they play the more enjoyable it becomes.

If you can ask a young man to give his life for his country, you can lead people.

Life loves the liver of it.

To keep the business going, you gotta keep it boomin‘.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

The problem with writing a book in verse is, to be successful, it has to sound like you knocked it off on a rainy Friday afternoon. It has to sound easy. When you can do it, it helps tremendously because it’s a thing that forces kids to read on. You have this unconsummated feeling if you stop.

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

There will be days when I walk in an arena and people will cheer and then there might be days when I walk in an arena and people might boo, but it all sounds the same to me because it’s all just noise that lets me know that I’m relevant.

I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.

While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.

If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.

I’m not sure what you need first – the players believing or others believing in them – but in the end, both have to think it.

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

I don’t think I will ever be content. I am somebody who is always hungry.

While still working for others, your goal at some point must be to carve out little areas that you can operate on your own, cultivating entrepreneurial skills.

If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

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.

You can be passionate about anything.

I tell my fellow reggaetoneros, keep giving it your all and bring more creativity.

We aim above the mark to hit the mark.

Even if you’re happy with the life you’ve chosen, you’re still curious about the other options.

The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did – which was to hide.

The men I idolized built their bodies and became somebody – like Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger – and I thought, ‚That can be me.‘ So I started working out. The funny thing is I didn’t realize back then that I was having a defining moment.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.

I don’t want to make money; I want to make a difference.

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.