I’m here. I’m not going anywhere. No matter what the injury – unless it’s completely debilitating – I’m going to be the same player I’ve always been. I’ll figure it out. I’ll make some tweaks, some changes, but I’m still coming.

Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked.

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

One of the wonderful things about Oprah: She teaches you to keep on stepping.

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don’t fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.

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.

I plan on taking athletics as far as I can.

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens.

Some people take defeat and losses a certain way. You see how some fighters take losses.

One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

Our work is never over.

Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together.

This is a ruthless world and one must be ruthless to cope with it.

The music we do is for people to enjoy, dance and sing to it. Dreamers – keep on dreaming and keep working hard to achieve your goals. There are many difficulties, but what matters is to stay focused and have perseverance.

I identify myself as a hustler since I was a young kid.

It’s not ‚can‘; it’s ‚will.‘ You have to will things into fruition.

It was clear to me that if I could get through Princeton at the top of my class, I could do anything in the world.

I will never relent in defending America – whatever it takes.

I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.

There’s people that tried to celebrate when I lost that got nothing to do with it. That’s not the sign of a champion.

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.

The man who has no problems is out of the game.

With self-discipline most anything is possible.

What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.

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.

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

I know I’m a good professional, I know that no one’s harder on me than myself and that’s never going to change, under any circumstances.

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.

Once you start a working on something, don’t be afraid of failure and don’t abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

When I get on a roll with something, it’s really hard for me to put it down unfinished.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

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

I’ll never, ever be full. I’ll always be hungry. Obviously, I’m not talking about food. Growing up, I had nothing for such a long time. Someone told me a long time ago, and I’ve never forgotten it, ‚Once you’ve ever been hungry, really, really hungry, then you’ll never, ever be full.‘

You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.

Giving up cannot be an option.

We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 – and half the things he knows at 40 hadn’t been discovered when he was 20?

It’s like a muscle – if you stop going to the gym or stop running, you get weak. The military teaches you these great values, but we don’t keep up the discipline on our own, and we lose it. So wherever you go, keep that discipline up.

Nobody’s indispensable.

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.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

To have a comeback, you have to have a setback.

These times are so hard, and they’re getting even harder.

There are alway going to be bad things. But you can write it down and make a song out of it.

The longer a man’s fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.

I pity the fool who just gives up.

There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.

We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor – got her master’s with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure.

Life isn’t meant to be easy. It’s hard to take being on the top – or on the bottom. I guess I’m something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things… Life is one crisis after another.

My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring still.

I hoped to be able to write a novel which would enable me to live on it while I wrote the next.

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.