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.

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

In a democracy, the well-being, individuality and happiness of every citizen is important for the overall prosperity, peace and happiness of the nation.

It’s not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

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

To all the positions, I just bring the determination to win. Me being an unselfish player, I think that can carry on to my teammates. When you have one of the best players on the court being unselfish, I think that transfers to the other players.

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace. It is not by going out for a demonstration against nuclear missiles that we can bring about peace. It is with our capacity of smiling, breathing, and being peace that we can make peace.

Winning is the most important. Everything is consequence of that.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

One rule that will work if it is used everywhere, is that when you have a free-kick, the referee puts the mark on the floor to make sure the defenders keep their distance.

There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.

Peace is one of the most precious gifts God has promised His children. I know, because for many years my life was not peaceful, and I was miserable.

Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.

I’m just glad I play for Coach Belichick.

I’ll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it’s sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

I just want to do well with the national team.

Sometimes people make it seem like you have to have certain prerequisites or a crazy life story in order to be successful in this world. But the truth is you really don’t.

I just hate meetings. Though it’s true that once you’ve made a lot of money, people around you might be full of ideas about ways to make lots more money and might be disappointed that you don’t want to seize every opportunity to do so.

Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.

With a tree, all the growth takes place at the growing tips. Humanity is exactly the same. All the growth takes place in the growing tip: among that one percent of the population. It’s made up of pioneers, the beginners. That’s where the action is.

Think and grow rich.

No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

‚They‘ are the people that don’t believe in you, that say that you won’t succeed. We stay away from ‚They.‘

It doesn’t matter where you come from, what you have or don’t have, what you lack, or what you have too much of. But all you need to have is faith in God, an undying passion for what you do and what you choose to do in this life, and a relentless drive and the will to do whatever it takes to be successful in whatever you put your mind to.

It’s much easier to be successful than it is to be relevant. The tricks won’t keep you relevant. Tricks might keep you popular for a while, but in all honesty, I don’t know how U2 will stay relevant. I know we’ve got a future. I know we can fill stadiums. And yet with every record, I think, ‚Is this it? Are we still relevant?‘

People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.

As unique as we all are, an awful lot of us want the same things. We want to shake up our current less-than-fulfilling lives. We want to be happier, more loving, forgiving and connected with the people around us.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.

I didn’t want to be a writer, but I became one. And now I have many readers, in many countries. I think that’s a miracle. So I think I have to be humble regarding this ability. I’m proud of it and I enjoy it, and it is strange to say it this way, but I respect it.

We’ve had three big ideas at Amazon that we’ve stuck with for 18 years, and they’re the reason we’re successful: Put the customer first. Invent. And be patient.

If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.

I used to tease Joe Louis by reminding him that I was the greatest of all time. But Joe Louis was the greatest heavyweight fighter ever.

I’ve never fought with anyone. A lot of people talk to me, and they’re like, ‚Oh, you would have been fighting all the time when you were younger,‘ but I’m like, ‚I never fought with anyone because I always knew that if I hurt myself, I might lose important time in my cricket career,‘ so I never got into any fight, ever in my life.

Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.

In England, when an athlete gets to the top, we do our best to destroy him.

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

It obviously bothers people when Real Madrid win. It makes them jealous. There isn’t a level playing field.

Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.

Working hard is very important. You’re not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

I’ve accomplished enough with the music that I haven’t had to go out there and do other things to over-saturate.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

In business, success often depends upon the relative age of your ideas.

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

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

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.

I stayed true to my dreams and, eventually, they came true.

I have to admit, I sometimes wonder how much more successful I would have been as a coach had it not been for my spending summers on the golf course. I could have watched more film, that’s for sure. One advantage Joe Paterno had over me was that he didn’t play golf.

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

A man’s delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.

Only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way, and the other is to let her have it.

Success isn’t supposed to happen, no matter how hard you work. There’s no guarantee you’re going to succeed. There’s nothing set in stone.