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

To excel at the highest level – or any level, really – you need to believe in yourself, and hands down, one of the biggest contributors to my self-confidence has been private coaching.

I would never say I was an icon, but so many people have said I am, so I suppose I am. I mean, I can’t not be what everyone says I am. But I don’t feel like an icon.

Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come.

I always was that person who was hard on myself and challenged myself no matter what I was doing, whether it was passing third grade or playing basketball.

The most talented do not always end up as celebrities, and those with less talent often do. Upsets are written into our history and occur around us every day.

The postman wants an autograph. The cab driver wants a picture. The waitress wants a handshake. Everyone wants a piece of you.

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

Reading isn’t good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn’t hit home runs. So I gave up reading.

Once it gets down to single-digit games, you know the season’s end is approaching, and we’re all pretty physically tired.

I’d love to go into WWE and have a real knock and see what’s what.

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

The temptation to take the easy road is always there. It is as easy as staying in bed in the morning and sleeping in. But discipline is paramount to ultimate success and victory for any leader and any team.

Hollywood is a place where they’ll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.

There was my name up in lights. I said, ‚God, somebody’s made a mistake.‘ But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, ‚Remember, you’re not a star.‘ Yet there it was up in lights.

One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

Being beautiful is not so fun when you’re in a business with all men.

Whatever you want to do, do with full passion and work really hard towards it. Don’t look anywhere else. There will be a few distractions, but if you can be true to yourself, you will be successful for sure.

From the moment I started writing raps, I was always aware of the pressure. I always wanted to live up to how huge Snoop got, how huge Dre got, how huge Pac got. I was always aware.

I look out at the stadiums full of people and see them all knowing the words to songs I wrote. And curling their hair! I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It’s just funny. And wonderful.

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.

Confidence is always a good thing to have going into the weekend. Especially where it’s quite difficult to put the lap together.

Football is a team game and none can survive or excel without the help of the other.

You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.

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.

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

If you’re going to be a winner in life, you have to constantly go beyond your best.

If you are first you are first. If you are second you are nothing.

In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.

I’d have to be superman to do some of the things I’m supposed to have done, I’ve been at six different places at six different times.

It’s kind of like a challenge to myself to be able to hear somebody else’s hook and kind of interpret the words. Because my own hooks, I already know what I mean when I write them.

My success isn’t a result of arrogance – it’s a result of belief.

You would think that a rock star being married to a supermodel would be one of the greatest things in the world. It is.

I try to encourage all my teammates, and I sure hope that some day all athletes – my kids, high school kids – get the same level of care I get. Because you can play for a long period of time without having knee replacements, without having all the major head trauma that people are dealing with.

Once people are aware of your presence, and perhaps vaguely intrigued, you need to stir their interest before it settles on someone else.

There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems.

I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics are not so far apart in America. They are both a means to the same end, which is victory… And why not? Victory is good for you, and don’t let anybody tell you different.

Magic has five championships. I have five championships. I’m pretty sure we both know what we’re doing.

I think the high-tech industry is used to developing new things very quickly. It’s the Silicon Valley way of doing business: You either move very quickly and you work hard to improve your product technology, or you get destroyed by some other company.

You shall, I question not, find a way to the top if you diligently seek for it; for nature hath placed nothing so high that it is out of the reach of industry and valor.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I’m against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.

Eight years ago, you may remember Hillary and I were rivals for the Democratic nomination. We battled for a year and a half. Let me tell you, it was tough, because Hillary was tough. I was worn out. She was doing everything I was doing, but just like Ginger Rogers, it was backwards in heels.

Radio in England is nonexistent. It’s very bad English use of a media system, typically English use.

No great thing is created suddenly.

The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.

My mother and my father have been married 50 years, and he’s just started to understand that something’s wrong with the system. He accepted the whole thing, you see. Yet this industrious kind of engagement didn’t bring him the success, according to American terms, that he wanted. I was probably affected by this very much. In fact, I know I was.

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

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

Well, we know that people in Australia love the idea of both Impulse and Virgin Blue getting up and adding a bit of competition, and it’s fun to be able to deliver it.

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‚What’s in it for me?‘

I don’t think I could think of a single thing that’s more isolating than being famous.

It’s a frustrating game because the situations so drastically change at different times over the course of the week, the game, the season. It feels like brain surgery at times.

The challenge for me as an actor is if you become a celebrity, you don’t meet strangers anymore. And strangers are where we have our anonymity. And I believe it’s essential for the soul to be anonymous, especially if you’re going to be an actor.

As you deal with more and more complex systems, it becomes harder and harder to find deep and interesting properties.