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.

I’m different than most people. When I cross the finish line of a big race, I see that people are ecstatic, but I’m thinking about what I’m going to do tomorrow. It’s as if my journey is everlasting, and there is no finish line.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost.

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end… I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

If you look at my life, generally, I’ve been put in situations which were difficult and which I conquered.

Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.

You can’t try to do things; you simply must do them.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges.

Diligence is the mother of good luck.

When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives.

The life so short, the craft so long to learn.

To become ‚unique,‘ the challenge is to fight the hardest battle which anyone can imagine until you reach your destination.

Go as far as you can see; when you get there you’ll be able to see farther.

I have my flaws too, but I am a professional who doesn’t like to miss or lose.

He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.

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

It is always your next move.

If you tell me there’s something I can’t do, I’ll want to do it even more. Especially when it comes to entertaining.

The secret is not to give up hope. It’s very hard not to because if you’re really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side.

Whenever things go a bit sour in a job I’m doing, I always tell myself, ‚You can do better than this.‘

Nothing’s ever easy as long as you go on living.

It’s physical. If you keep on writing for three years, every day, you should be strong. Of course you have to be strong mentally, also. But in the first place you have to be strong physically. That is a very important thing. Physically and mentally you have to be strong.

All my life, I’ve been trying to make a hole-in-one. The closest I’ve come is a bogey.

New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can’t be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it’s not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!

I plan on taking athletics as far as I can.

It isn’t sufficient just to want – you’ve got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

With self-discipline most anything is possible.

You’ve got to go out on a limb sometimes because that’s where the fruit is.

I played a great horse yesterday! It took seven horses to beat him.

I’ve been studying the Bible for a long time. I remember that after the first five years or so of diligently studying the Word, I didn’t feel like I had made any progress. There were a lot of things in my life that were out of order, and I didn’t feel like I was getting anywhere.

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

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

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

Most of us aren’t defeated in one decisive battle. We are defeated one tiny, seemingly insignificant surrender at a time that chips away at who we should really be.

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.

Whatever I engage in, I must push inordinately.

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.

I tried acting, liked it, and stuck with it. I saw it as the way I would keep that promise to myself of getting back at those who had made my school life a misery.

Once I’ve decided to do something, I do usually try to carry it through to fruition.

Treat failure as a lesson on how not to approach achieving a goal, and then use that learning to improve your chances of success when you try again. Failure is only the end if you decide to stop.

I don’t want to be something that just comes and goes.

If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don’t stop, don’t put it down.

In a lot of ways, success is much harder than I thought it would be. I figured that you’d get here and then everything would be happily ever after. But, it’s hard work, almost harder once you’re successful because you’ve got to maintain it.

Being self-made means never making an excuse as to why you can’t take steps toward whatever your goal is.

I do the very best I know how – the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.

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

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses – behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That’s what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they’ll go through the pain no matter what happens.