I’m proud to play for Real Madrid because I have fun; when you no longer have fun it’s a sign that it’s time to leave. For now though, I’m happy here at the greatest club in the world.

The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.

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’m happiest with my family around me.

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.

Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster’s own personal example.

Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.

Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.

My dad has kind of been the standard for me, he played 16 years in the league, and since I’ve been in the league, every year that I go through and deal with the scratches, the bumps and bruises, just the grind that it is to go through one NBA season.

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.

Everything I have, my career, my success, my family, I owe to America.

Kites rise highest against the wind – not with it.

If you are surrounded by your competition and you are outworking these people, outmaneuvering these people, it’s hard not to let your confidence take over. It just builds and builds and builds.

I don’t think about that. I wasn’t a kid growing up saying one day I’ll get an Oscar and make a speech. That wasn’t on my mind. So what I do is the best work I can do.

The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.

We all started playing football against our best friends, and I can’t remember a moment where, because it was my best friend, I did not want to win against him.

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don’t try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

Perhaps it’s good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he’s happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?

Liverpool is a club with a big, big, big history, and all the clubs in the world have a big history if the present is not too successful. If you have never had success, then nobody knows how it is, but in Liverpool, everybody knows how it was.

To be honest, I never really considered myself to be too much of an actress. So, whenever I get the chance to do music, I’m always, like, just in it. It’s like, ‚Oh my God, I finally get to do this. I’m so happy.‘

See, winners embrace hard work.

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

Those who know me know I’m passionate about lists, and top of my list of priorities is my family. My wife Joan and I do not consider our legacy to our children to be wealth or fame but the opportunity to pursue happiness by following their own path.

So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.

Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.

The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I’d invented it, because it is very true.

No matter what, people grow. If you chose not to grow, you’re staying in a small box with a small mindset. People who win go outside of that box. It’s very simple when you look at it.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

True happiness is… to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

Bayern want a decade of success like Barca. That’s OK if you have the money because it increases the possibility of success. But it’s not guaranteed.

We murdered them 0-0.

We have the tendency to run away from suffering and to look for happiness. But, in fact, if you have not suffered, you have no chance to experience real happiness.

I was sure I’d set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the truth – that I hadn’t set the world on fire, and I was totally unprepared to handle the consequences if ‚The Big Trail‘ had been a success and launched me as a star.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

Just because I managed to do a little something, I don’t want anyone back home to think I got the big head.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

Winning – that’s the most important to me. It’s as simple as that.

Your joy comes from how you think, the choices that we make in life.

I can say I’d honestly rather be happy than have 30 to 40 songs that I’ve written about these thrilling, exciting, horrible, unhappy times.

The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.

When a team takes ownership of its problems, the problem gets solved. It is true on the battlefield, it is true in business, and it is true in life.

It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam.

Your teammates give you the confidence. They give me the confidence all year, all postseason.

I don’t measure my success anymore by the Grammys. I can’t because I’ll just end up crushed.

Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

I’ve always been very happy. I’ve always been easy going and I’ve always been very encouraging; it’s just my personality.

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Growth is the great separator between those who succeed and those who do not. When I see a person beginning to separate themselves from the pack, it’s almost always due to personal growth.

People tend to play in their comfort zone, so the best things are achieved in a state of surprise, actually.

There is a place in the net where the keeper cannot reach the ball.

‚Victory‘ is like, you won, so the question is, what? What did you win? I think that the songs go into that. It’s just about reaching a place in myself.

People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.

You know, I look like a woman but I think like a man. And in this world of business, that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that I don’t know what’s goin‘ on, I then got the money, and gone.

I think that, whatever happens, I’m just happy I’ve written those songs and I’ve made an album. That’s really big for me, and I’m proud of that.

Right now I’m just delighted to be alive and to have had a nice long bath.

Being self-made means never making an excuse as to why you can’t take steps toward whatever your goal is.

The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.