It’s rule number one, really – beating your teammate.

Winning, to me, is easy. Winning more is the challenge.

When I’m in the studio, I’m looking for creativity I haven’t matched yet, a feeling I haven’t felt. It’s a high.

Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.

Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.

Rule number one is: Beat your team-mate.

If you look at the history of Notre Dame, if you hire a coach who’s been successful at another college program, they’re going to be ultra successful at Notre Dame because the talent will always be there.

Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.

You just do what you can and you have as much fun as possible.

We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Mine is better than ours.

Prospering just doesn’t have to do with money.

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.

I was a little worried that young people would think the only game was being political and manipulative when really the bigger game is being so good at what you do that nobody can argue with your results.

I just want to do well with the national team.

There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.

We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society.

If all you’re doing is grinding for the man, it’s going to burden you. Once you say, ‚Hey, I’m grinding for the man, but I’m putting money away, and this is part of my exit strategy,‘ you’re working for you.

You can be passionate about anything.

Didn’t get promoted? Good. More time to get better.

If you deserve it, go get it.

It’s what counts, isn’t it, on the Sunday, rather than pre-season testing. If you lock up, you do a little mistake, it’s nothing, but if you do it on Sunday, you lose a place or you have to box for a flat spot or something like that. It’s a much bigger problem.

We were the first generation to have to deal with the modern stardom of football. Some handled it better than others.

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

Control your own destiny! Control your own destiny!

You’ve got to work things out in the cloakroom, and when you’ve got them worked out, you can debate a little before you vote.

Some people think literature is high culture and that it should only have a small readership. I don’t think so… I have to compete with popular culture, including TV, magazines, movies and video games.

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

Successful people will always tell you you can do something. It’s the people who have never accomplished anything who will always discourage you from trying to achieve excellent things.

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.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

I always make my dreams into goals.

Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people.

What keeps me going is goals.

Fighting for one’s freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.

Good planning is important. I’ve also regarded a sense of humor as one of the most important things on a big expedition. When you’re in a difficult or dangerous situation, or when you’re depressed about the chances of success, someone who can make you laugh eases the tension.

Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

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.

You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

Only stupid people are changed by success.

Energy begets energy.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.

You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.

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.

People don’t realise how difficult it is to work with people day in and day out that know absolutely nothing.

Ambition has become a dirty word, and I believe it is a great evolutionary force for the positive. If people fail or go astray in their ambition I can live with it but not with people lowering their expectations, wasting time, slacking off and glorifying failure and stupidity.

We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.

Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.

I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.

What interests me in life is curiosity, challenges, the good fight with its victories and defeats.

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.