In college, a loss is pretty devastating. That feeling kind of goes away in an 82-game season. You hate to lose, but you also have a lot more games to make up for it.

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

When you’re finished changing, you’re finished.

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are.

I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

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.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

The first two games for Churchill, I was so jittery that I didn’t know what to do. I was running more but didn’t know what to do. I’ve no bones accepting the fact that I didn’t know what was happening in the game.

My music will go on forever. Maybe it’s a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.

We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose.

Ordinarily, players fine-tune their match-fitness during the pre-season.

With tech companies, whoever’s the leader is always questioned, you know. They say, ‚Is this the end of them?‘ And – there’s more – more times people think that’s the case than it really is the case.

Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.

How do you catch a knuckleball? You wait until it stops rolling, then go pick it up.

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

America is the student who defies the odds to become the first in a family to go to college – the citizen who defies the cynics and goes out there and votes – the young person who comes out of the shadows to demand the right to dream. That’s what America is about.

My son has died of AIDS.

I’ve had big record label presidents look me in the face and say, ‚Your music sucks, you don’t know who you are, your music is all over the place, and we don’t know how to market this stuff. Pick a lane and come back to us.‘

Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.

A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one.

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

Losing is not an option in Kolkata. It’s not easy, a lot of players even quit.

If one dream dies, dream another dream. If you get knocked down, get back up and go again.

I think that at the start of a game, you’re always playing to win, and then maybe if you’re ahead late in the game, you start playing not to lose. The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win.

I hate to see anybody sink. I hate to see anybody lose their dream, lose their home, something like that.

If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.

There are many victories worse than a defeat.

I’ve done a number of Super Bowl ads. And that is the best advertising of the year. That is when people realize they’re going to be compared directly against other ads.

Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.

When I used to play sports, I’d be the one cheering the team on, ‚Come on, we can beat these guys!‘ That’s just in me.

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

Folks don’t like to have somebody around knowing more than they do.

When I was in college my girl got me a job at the doctor’s office she was working at. I was a file clerk. No disrespect but I don’t think a man can do that job. It takes so much meticulous and precise file-keeping.

I definitely wasn’t anything special when I first started but I think I adapted quite quickly into racing and it became a bit better slowly. All of cadets, the first four years of karting, I only won one proper race, one! Which was the British Open Championship at PFI and I started 21st and I won.

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

There are two bowlers who I think are very tough to play against – Dale Steyn and Morne Morkel.

If you can be mentally stimulated by the workout and find out how to get through it, it’s more fun.

The thing that’s been really surprising about the evolution of Facebook is – I think then, and I think now – that if we didn’t do this, someone else would have done it.

Frustration is a sign I am acting independently. The more you try your own way, the tighter the doors will stay closed.

You might win some, you might lose some. But you go in, you challenge yourself, you become a better man, a better individual, a better fighter.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

The first time I used a simulator was in 2014 when I was competing in the Ginetta Junior Championship.

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

Playing basketball all my life, I’ve collected a lot of different basketball shoes. It’s pretty much all I wear.

I would counsel people to go to college, because it’s one of the best times in your life in terms of who you meet and develop a broad set of intellectual skills.

The one thing about the business of entertainment is that you have to learn patience.

I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

While playing golf today I hit two good balls. I stepped on a rake.

The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

A man who has no office to go, to I don’t care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.

I’m just a kid that defied the odds. I’m just a kid that ignored the doubt. I’m just a kid from a little place in Dublin, Ireland, that went all the way, and I’m going to continue to go all the way.

My message to all the activists is to just keep going, and I know it really may seem impossible and hopeless sometimes – it always does – so you just have to keep going because if you try hard enough and long enough you will make a difference.

There are some people who hate my guts. But that goes with the territory.

SpaceX has the potential of saving the U.S. government $1 billion a year. We are opposed to creating an entrenched monopoly with no realistic means for anyone to compete.

If you are born an artist, you have no choice but to fight to stay an artist.

Football is unconditional love.

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.

I was a fighting machine with a will of iron.

Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.