I’ve done everything every fat person ever has. I’ve tried every diet.

I take my sleep very, very important.

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.

The only reason I would take up jogging is so that I could hear heavy breathing again.

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

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.

Irrespective of whether you have talent or not, one has to work hard. Just being talented doesn’t mean anything; you can end up wasting it before you realize.

Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.

I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.

If you try to fight the course, it will beat you.

Mortality is very different when you’re 20 to when you’re 50.

Mentally, the only players who survive in the pros are the ones able to manage all their responsibilities. Everybody struggles in different ways.

It was a personal decision for me to stand and say that cricket is all I have in life, there’s nothing I need to do other than cricket. If I want to achieve whatever I thought as a kid, I need to work hard and not let it go to waste.

The only way you gain mental toughness is to do things you’re not happy doing. If you continue doing things that you’re satisfied and make you happy, you’re not getting stronger. You’re staying where you’re at. Either you’re getting better, or you’re getting worse. You’re not staying the same.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

It’s not easy being young. It’s hard to know what to do.

The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.

I need music. It’s like my heartbeat, so to speak. It keeps me going no matter what’s going on – bad games, press, whatever!

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.

Attention to health is life’s greatest hindrance.

My mom cleaned toilets for a long time, and she’d seen a lot of terrible things, but she was still the strength of our family. And there are women like that all across the country – all around the world – who show that type of fortitude.

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

You have to be smart. The easy days are over.

The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure.

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.

Sleep is all about recovering. So if you’re not sleeping, you’re not recovering. And if you’re going to break your body down a lot, you better find ways to build it back up. And the only way to do that is get a lot of sleep. So for me, I go to bed at like 8:30, 9:00. As soon as I put my kids to bed. Because I’m up at 5:30 the next day.

Life is a journey. When we stop, things don’t go right.

I am not someone who does a lot of exercise, so I attempt to maintain some sort of rhythm, and I think the jump rope is the funnest way. It’s easy, you can do it in your room or anywhere.

I wonder how many times people give up just before a breakthrough – when they are on the very brink of success.

I eat next to nothing.

Nothing burns more calories than dancing in 5-inch heels… try it!

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring still.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he’s losing; nobody wants you to quit when you’re ahead.

I grew up where, when a door closed, a window didn’t open. The only thing I had was cracks. I’d do everything to get through those cracks – scratch, claw, bite, push, bleed. Now the opportunity is here. The door is wide open, and it’s as big as a garage.

Under the worst conditions, horrendous conditions, people still, you know, fight for their rights and don’t just succumb.

If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!

Health consists with temperance alone.

I like sports, and I enjoy playing basketball and lifting weights.

Proper sleep has helped me get to where I am today as an athlete, and it is something that I continue to rely on every day.

It’s human nature to gripe, but I’m going ahead and doing the best I can.

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.

I’m healthy as can be – not an ache or a pain. A lot of my prayer is thanking the Lord that I am healthy. I pray for long life and good health.

I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, went into the Army, and then I just stuck with it.

There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life’s July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.

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.

The challenge of work-life balance is without question one of the most significant struggles faced by modern man.

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

At United, there are great traditions, which you can’t buy in one or two years. They are created by victories. You need to prove again and again that you are better than the others. Manchester United have always done this, and are still doing it, so they are the best.

If we don’t succeed we run the risk of failure.

I’ve never thought about any kind of prejudice about women in country music because I never felt like it affected me. I was fortunate enough to come about in a time when I didn’t feel that kind of energy at all, and it was always my theory that if you want to play in the same ballgame as the boys, you’ve got to work as hard as them.

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