It started to weigh on me that I was responsible for the moves that had made me successful, but I wasn’t reaping the lion’s share of the profits, and that was problematic for me.

I just figured out that if I gave my all into this game – if I put everything into the fight business – then I would eventually run the fight business.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

Siren voices tell me, ‚You don’t have to keep going on.‘ And then you think, ‚I’m a writer. What do I do? Sit there watching my wife clean up?‘ I don’t know. I like being a writer.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

When you play, play hard; when you work, don’t play at all.

Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.

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

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn’t reach the quality it should have.

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.

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

I have promised myself that I’m going to do everything I can for as long as I can.

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life’s path.

If you don’t live your life, then who will?

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

When the first big paycheque with ‚Dumb And Dumber‘ hit, I went: ‚Gosh, I wonder if this will affect my performance. Will I do a take and think, was that worth $7 million?‘ But that never happened. If anything, it made me rebel against that thing when people who get rich start playing it safe.

The future doesn’t belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.

Becoming an inspiration for kids is great. I want to inspire them to do whatever they want to.

I have the Midas touch, in the way that when I hook up with a project, I feel, not speaking cocky or conceited, but there’s a confidence I have. I learned that from Muhammad Ali; I used to bodyguard him. He taught me about confidence. So when it comes to any job I work, I’m gonna do it good; I’m going to bring it over the top.

Don’t grow accustomed to living with less, doing less, and being less to the point that you eventually sit back and accept it.

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

Honor thy error as a hidden intention.

Everything I have, my career, my success, my family, I owe to America.

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.

If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.

A lot of people have a sense-of-entitlement mentality that somebody else ought to do these things for them. People are mad at the government for not getting jobs for them. I don’t understand why it’s the government’s responsibility.

If you’re doing your best, you won’t have any time to worry about failure.

Believe me, I’m much easier to be around when we win than when we lose.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

Be as you wish to seem.

I never got into training to be an All-Ireland boxing champ or to win a belt. At the start, I just got into it to learn how to defend myself when I got into situations.

There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.

I’m responsible for starting a whole new school of pretension.

In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world.

Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.

When I won the first Grammy, there was no other feeling like that feeling. It just made me feel like I came so far, like that was just a dream a few years before that, and then it was happening right then.

My biggest error? Something that is to happen yet.

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.

I really didn’t consider myself happy or unhappy.

If a man does his best, what else is there?

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.

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win – essential to success.

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

Money won’t create success, the freedom to make it will.

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.

Too many people measure how successful they are by how much money they make or the people that they associate with. In my opinion, true success should be measured by how happy you are.

Freedom is what everyone wants – to be able to act and live with freedom. But the only way to get to a place of freedom is through discipline.

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

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.

Be the chief but never the lord.

I never think about myself as an artist working in this time. I think about it in macro.

I want a president with a record of public service, someone whose life’s work shows our children that we don’t chase fame and fortune for ourselves: we fight to give everyone a chance to succeed.

Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us… While what we call ‚our own life‘ remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make ‚our own life‘ less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness?