I’m a fighter, I’m a winner, and I’m not interested in just battling my team-mate for the back of the grid.

You can’t knock on opportunity’s door and not be ready.

Virtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positive attitude.

Go as far as you can see; when you get there you’ll be able to see farther.

Like getting into a bleeding competition with a blood bank.

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

When I started Virgin from a basement in west London, there was no great plan or strategy. I didn’t set out to build a business empire… For me, building a business is all about doing something to be proud of, bringing talented people together and creating something that’s going to make a real difference to other people’s lives.

Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don’t interfere as long as the policy you’ve decided upon is being carried out.

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

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.

I’m not a genius. I need other people to get the perfect information. When we have this, we will decide to sign or sell a player.

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

I defy gravity.

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

One must work and dare if one really wants to live.

I don’t expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.

I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going – I have no post-satisfaction.

Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.

We will not waver; we will not tire; we will not falter, and we will not fail. Peace and Freedom will prevail.

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

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.

A good boxing competition gives one the sight of fine men in their prime, trained to the ounce, showing the highest skill, pluck and endurance in carrying out their attack and defence under strict rules of fair play and good temper.

America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win – essential to success.

Look at the world. There is no pure competitor to the United States of America.

The female loves to play man against man. And if she is in a position to do it, there is not one who will resist.

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.

I remember the last three days that I was president, I never went to bed at all. I never went to bed until we had negotiated the final release of the hostages.

I need to do well and show I’m a worthy driver in F1.

Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

I’m a big perfectionist! I’m trying to channel super-confident women like Alicia Keys, Mariah Carey and Beyonce, because I realized that if you want something, you really have to go for it, just like they do.

On this team, we’re all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

I will fight in many weight divisions.

You might win some, you might lose some. But you go in, you challenge yourself, you become a better man, a better individual, a better fighter.

Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.

To do your best is no longer good enough. We now have to do the seemingly impossible.

It’s a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can’t stop playing the game the way you’ve always played it.

What keeps me going is goals.

The day-to-day making of policy is arguing all the time. You’re trying to get the right approach and the right answer, and there are moments that aren’t very pleasant. But in the end, you look at the overall product.

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.

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.

A lot of blood, sweat, and tears have gone into this career of mine.

It’s amazing, the culture Coach Belichick has been able to create in our system.

Dividers seek to make themselves look or feel better by making others feel worse. They damage relationships, fracture teams and organizations, and create havoc in people’s lives.

Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm… in the real world all rests on perseverance.

I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

We clearly see in God’s Word that anything He tells us to do, He will give us the ability to do it. But do we really believe it? Do we want to believe it? It’s easier to come up with excuses for why we can’t do things that are hard or that we really don’t want to do.

I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way – I hope it never will.

But I’m pretty good with collaborative thinking. I work well with other people.

I try to encourage all my teammates, and I sure hope that some day all athletes – my kids, high school kids – get the same level of care I get. Because you can play for a long period of time without having knee replacements, without having all the major head trauma that people are dealing with.

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

I stayed focused, and I never surrendered, and now I’ve been blessed. now I take care of my mother, my father, and my entire whole family.

Refuse to be a lazy Christian, and resist a passive, apathetic attitude.