I’m sure that at no point in my life could I ever have shown the kind of focus and discipline and commitment necessary to work a station at elBulli or Le Bernardin. No. That ain’t me.

I don’t know that my schooling was conducive to wild ideas and creativity, but it gave me discipline, drive. They taught me how to think. I really know how to think.

Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.

What is once well done is done forever.

I don’t want to hear the word ‚can’t.‘

I’ve always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.

There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.

You have to stay faithful to what you’re working on.

Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life.

I’m a fighter, I’m a winner, and I’m not interested in just battling my team-mate for the back of the grid.

Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

When it all got taken away, I was becoming a young man. So I had to sacrifice to leave my family… Sleeping in my car, getting an apartment for a month and getting evicted the next month. Staying in the $25, $50 hotels.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.

Since God had commanded it, it was necessary that I do it. Since God commanded it, even if I had a hundred fathers and mothers, even if I had been a King’s daughter, I would have gone nevertheless.

Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them.

I don’t intend to stop making music.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.

It was like I was in a tunnel. Not only the tunnel under the hotel but the whole circuit was a tunnel. I was just going and going, more and more and more and more. I was way over the limit but still able to find even more.

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.

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.

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.

I’ve never dropped anyone I believed in.

I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell – you see, I have friends in both places.

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.

For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it’s time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.

To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.

When there’s so much left to do, why spend your time focusing on things you’ve already done, counting trophies or telling stories about the good old days?

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.

I don’t see how people are comfortable with seeing other people be great. You can be happy for anybody, but what is your excuse to not want to be great? These people are great because they just say, ‚I’ma do that,‘ and they do it. That’s it. There’s no scientifical process.

To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.

People’s blessings give you the power to work tirelessly. The only thing required is commitment.

When I say I’m going to take care of a woman, I don’t just mean physically or sexually or romantically. I’m going to take care of her emotionally and spiritually. I’m going to take care of her in all ways. I take a lot of pride in that today.

Better to fight for something than live for nothing.

I’m a big perfectionist! I’m trying to channel super-confident women like Alicia Keys, Mariah Carey and Beyonce, because I realized that if you want something, you really have to go for it, just like they do.

Imagine your family finally making it from nothing to something, and finally getting things going, and finally buying a beautiful house and taking care of your children – and the next day, it’s completely all gone. Zero. Boom. Flat broke. So that’s when I had to man up.

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

In military school, on day one you must memorize the mission of the Merchant Marine Academy.

The reason children accept discipline from their parents is because they know their parents love them.

One thing Britons have always been celebrated for, and that is being able to stick it out in a tight place.

Giving responsibility is the key to success with boys, especially with the rowdiest and most difficult boys.

However my parents – both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.

You’ve got to have faith in what you’re doing and not take no for an answer.

Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?

It doesn’t take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

A record deal doesn’t make you an artist; you make yourself an artist.

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

Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.

Believe you can and you’re halfway there.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

I think as long as I do a good job and put in all my effort to proving that I’m worth it, then everything should be fine.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.

Our work is never over.