I’m gonna be making records anyway, even if I had to sell ‚em out of the trunk of my car. I’m that kind of musician and singer.

If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.

I don’t profess to have music as my big wheel and there are a number of other things as important to me apart from music. Theatre and mime, for instance.

Basketball is my passion, I love it. But my family and friends mean everything to me. That’s what’s important. I need my phone so I can keep in contact with them at all times.

I love football and the intensity of football in Liverpool, this is what is very good for me.

When everything works best, it’s not because you chose writing but because writing chose you. It’s when you’re mad with it, it’s when it’s stuffed in your ears, your nostrils, under your fingernails. It’s when there’s no hope but that.

At one point he decided enough was enough.

Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.

I didn’t work hard to sit down and not work.

Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it’s on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you’ve got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration.

You have to be a bastard to make it, and that’s a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.

We’re going to have to work. We’re going to have to play well. Nothing will be given to us.

With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.

I love being on stage, I love being able to tell a story, I love the fact that the audience listens and laughs at it. It makes me happy, and it’s what I live for.

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‚em, ‚Certainly I can!‘ Then get busy and find out how to do it.

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

Never, never, never give up.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

Without football, my life is worth nothing.

Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.

And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.

Music will never go away, and I will never stop making music; it’s just what capacity or what arena you decide to do it.

I used to feel unsafe right in the moment of an accomplishment – I felt the ground fall from under my feet because this could be the end. And even now, while everyone is celebrating, I’m on to the next thing. I don’t want to get lost in this big cushion of success.

Stand-up comedy is mine: it’s my entity; it’s my brand; I own it. I do it when I want to do it.

Above anything else, I hate to lose.

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.

Genius is patience.

I tend not to really think about what other people say. I’d rather just try and focus on what I’m doing, try and win basically.

Playing basketball all my life, I’ve collected a lot of different basketball shoes. It’s pretty much all I wear.

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.

Football is all about fans.

I plan on taking athletics as far as I can.

I don’t know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.

Successful people will always tell you you can do something. It’s the people who have never accomplished anything who will always discourage you from trying to achieve excellent things.

He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.

The only time my records are going to be broken is by my own spawn. I’m going be training that child out the womb.

I love tango, and I used to dance when I was young.

I don’t live for the accolades. I’m more so about the music. Making it, and putting it out. Those are the two best feelings.

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

Nobody likes to fail. I want to succeed in everything I do, which isn’t much. But the things that I’m really passionate about, if I fail at those, if I’m not successful, what do I have?

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.

Get busy living, or get busy dying.

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

I will do this job as long as I feel that I can do it full steam.

A lot of times I find that people who are blessed with the most talent don’t ever develop that attitude, and the ones who aren’t blessed in that way are the most competitive and have the biggest heart.

We come bulletproof in Ireland. We’re reared tough, and we fight.

Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.

Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

The book that convinced me I wanted to be a writer was ‚Crime and Punishment‘. I put the thing down after reading it in a fever over two or three days… I said, ‚If this is what a book can be, then that is what I want to do.‘

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

My mother knew how to read music and everything. But I just kinda learned off of records. And so, I was listening to records and I’d play ‚em over and over.

Art is not a thing; it is a way.

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

The answer to all writing, to any career for that matter, is love.

No sooner said than done – so acts your man of worth.

I taught myself to play the guitar by listening to Paul Simon records, working it out note by note. He is an incredibly intelligent musician. He’s not someone who has a natural outpouring of melody like McCartney or Dylan, who are just terribly prolific with musical ideas.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

Cooking is about passion, so it may look slightly temperamental in a way that it’s too assertive to the naked eye.