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.

Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn’t be done.

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‚Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

Though lovers be lost, love shall not.

Life is a matter of really tough choices.

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.‘

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.

There’s many ups and downs in the fight game.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer to your goal.

In pop music, the public usually see the results – the hit records, the Grammy Awards performances, the concert tours – but not all the work that goes into getting into the spotlight. And not everyone realizes that, even if you have a lot of talent, chances are you won’t make it.

With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I’m going to press on for equality. I’m going to press on for the sake of our children. I’m going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I am going to press on.

I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.

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.

Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

It must be quite mysterious to some people why I bother to carry on. Because, you know, I don’t sell that many records.

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don’t give up the fight.

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them.

No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.

The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn’t still be a farmer.

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure… than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

Any good piece of material like Shakespeare ought to be open to reinterpretation.

There are a lot of inaccuracies out there when it comes to the SEAL training process. You will see guys carrying logs around on television. They think that the hardest part about being on a SEAL team is getting through that training. The fact of the matter is, if you have a good attitude, that training is fun. I had a blast.

With Kansas, I had a four-year deal. The initial two months were real tough. I had to adjust a lot. Then, things started looking up.

I stayed focused, and I never surrendered, and now I’ve been blessed. now I take care of my mother, my father, and my entire whole family.

The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair.

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

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.

They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.

Life comes with many challenges. The ones that should not scare us are the ones we can take on and take control of.

You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead.

Let my skin and sinews and bones dry up, together with all the flesh and blood of my body! I welcome it! But I will not move from this spot until I have attained the supreme and final wisdom.

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

Black or white good parts are hard to come by. A good actor with a good opportunity has a shot; without the opportunity it doesn’t matter how good you are.

A lot has happened over the years. And while this nation has been tested by war, and it’s been tested by recession and all manner of challenges – I stand before you again tonight, after almost two terms as your president, to tell you I am more optimistic about the future of America than ever before.

Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.

One word from the Lord is like a piece of gold to a believer, who is like a jeweler, shaping and hammering out the promise for a number of weeks.

The longer a man’s fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.

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.

Sometimes you have to take two steps back to take ten forward.

Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.

My father, who was jailed for stealing on more than one occasion, just abandoned his fatherly responsibilities and disappeared. I grew up working from the time I was nine years of age. Money was a big issue everywhere I lived.

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

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

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God’s help I shall succeed.

Even when folks are hitting you over the head, you can’t stop marching. Even when they’re turning the hoses on you, you can’t stop.

If it doesn’t work out there will never be any doubt that the pleasure was worth all the pain.

I’m committed to the fight game.

In other words, don’t expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a normal part of the lifecycle of a unit or a company and what the leader has to do is constantly be up and say ‚we have a problem, let’s go and get it‘.

We can take a ‚It was hard to get there.‘ But we ain’t taking no loss. We’re going to win.