I’m sure everyone knows now that only a few have performed in Madison Square Garden. That list is so small. Now I’m on that list. I’m a part of a very small group, which is unbelievable. You relish in that moment for a second.

Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.

With self-discipline most anything is possible.

The attempt and not the deed confounds us.

Believe it or not, I was just given an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Tennessee.

When I was at school, I used to stay on a balcony singing and people would stand around listening.

I want to elongate my cricketing career as a consistent player. I have personal goals I would like to achieve someday.

It’s a great, great experience to finally get the reception that you know you rightfully deserve.

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

Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.

I never wanted to sing. I just wanted to play rhythm guitar – hide in the back and just play.

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

This ain’t fun. But you watch me, I’ll get it done.

I won at every level – all the way since I started playing the game of basketball at nine. I’ve won at every level, won championships at every level. And, you know, it won’t be fulfilled until I win at the highest level.

Of course awards matter.

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.

Dancers are always striving for perfection. A great dancer never achieves it: you always want to do another turn, a higher jump,a more difficult acrobatic jump.

Einstein’s gravitational theory, which is said to be the greatest single achievement of theoretical physics, resulted in beautiful relations connecting gravitational phenomena with the geometry of space; this was an exciting idea.

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

But I think there are a set of experiences that turn a potential writer into a working writer, and then there are places in your life were you start to recognize what you want to do.

Fame itself… doesn’t really afford you anything more than a good seat in a restaurant.

While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.

I never wanted to perform and never proclaimed myself to be a performer.

I always felt like there was a certain standard of music that I had to do from the beginning, even when I didn’t have the recognition that I have now.

When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

I like the good life too much, I’m not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons.

It always seems impossible until it’s done.

Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me. Every night I had a live audience of 25,000 people to win over. My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining.

There is no doubt that some plant food, such as oatmeal, is more economical than meat, and superior to it in regard to both mechanical and mental performance. Such food, moreover, taxes our digestive organs decidedly less, and, in making us more contented and sociable, produces an amount of good difficult to estimate.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

I don’t really focus on these things – on what tags are given to me or what people think of me off the field – stuff like that. My main focus is always to do well on the field for the Indian cricket team. When people say good things about me off the field, I am more than happy to accept them.

There’s a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven’t. You just do the best you can.

The first step on the way to victory is to recognize the enemy.

Each doctor makes a much, much more important job than I do, but at the end, nobody talks about him. We all know about it, but we don’t really think about it.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Stage actors are usually much more conscious of speaking up and making sure that everyone can hear in the back of the theatre; a film actor probably thinks of that a little less.

In this great country, we celebrate success. We don’t want to penalize those who have done well.

We are going to transform Britain’s rail system from the worst in the world to the best. If you can do a few things like that, when the body gives out, you can say you’ve lived a good life.

People like me were supposed to be into exclusivity, unapproachable. That’s what I hate most. I think it’s very demode.

Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

The reward of a thing well done is having done it.

Winning ‚Motor Trend‘ Car of the year is probably the closest thing to winning the Oscar or Emmy of the car industry.

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

All the awards in the world, you can get into all the nightclubs, they’ll send you the nicest clothes. Nothing better than walking into your dad’s restaurant and seeing a smile on his face and knowing that your mom and dad and your sister are real proud of you.

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.

Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it.

Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.

Among physicists, I’m respected I hope.

If I’m a star, then the people made me a star.

To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.

We aim above the mark to hit the mark.

The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn’t really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: he wasn’t going to compose Beethoven’s Fifth.

I’ve run the Boston Marathon 6 times before. I think the best aspects of the marathon are the beautiful changes of the scenery along the route and the warmth of the people’s support. I feel happier every time I enter this marathon.