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

Contrary to popular belief, I don’t spend a whole lot of time following soccer. But as I have traveled around the world to better understand global development and health, I’ve learned that soccer is truly universal. No matter where I go, that’s what kids are playing. That’s what people are talking about.

I’m here. I’m not going anywhere. No matter what the injury – unless it’s completely debilitating – I’m going to be the same player I’ve always been. I’ll figure it out. I’ll make some tweaks, some changes, but I’m still coming.

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

All I do is work out. Oh my God! Half my life is spent in a gym somewhere, sweating.

Walking is man’s best medicine.

Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.

I think that’s why my career is going to be so long: Because I haven’t given people everything.

I struggled with being a broke college graduate, and while all my friends were getting career jobs, I was working horrible part-time jobs. That’s why now, even when I get tired, I think, ‚This is what I asked for.‘

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

We will all fail in life, but nobody has to be a failure. Failing at a thing doesn’t make you a failure. You are only a failure when you quit trying.

The greatest difficulty always comes right before the birth of a dream.

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements; sickness is the discord of the elements infused into the living body.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

The best way out of a difficulty is through it.

I started writing at the kitchen table after midnight. It took ten months to finish that first book; I sent it to a publisher and I got some kind of prize, so it was like a dream – I was surprised to find it happening.

I’ve been blessed to be somebody that’s been climbing that success mountain top for years of hard work, you know, but now it’s all connecting. And now, the whole world is watching, you know what I’m saying, and it feels good ‚cause it’s good energy. This is all positive vibes, and good vibes and good energy, so it feels incredible.

People who lie to themselves about investing are the same as overweight people who blame their genes for their obesity.

You have to motivate yourself with challenges. That’s how you know you’re still alive.

Around every corner, always protect the engine that powers you.

People want you to fail.

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Sometimes, women in families put themselves last until it manifests itself in their own health.

My gold, my money couldn’t stop cancer from appearing on my body. If they can’t save me, then I don’t need them.

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.

I sometimes wish I were suffering in a good cause, or risking my life for the good of others, instead of just being a gravely endangered patient.

Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable.

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.

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.

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

Glutes are power.

You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.

No sooner said than done – so acts your man of worth.

I think that that’s the wisest thing – to prevent illness before we try to cure something.

It is no use saying, ‚We are doing our best.‘ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

I’m proud to be an actor. See, as an actor, you live longer. Football players, the brain and all that stuff, ooh-eee, that’s not good.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

I wish everyone well, but you need to focus on yourself. You need to stop putting your hand out. Everyone wants hand outs. Everyone wants things for free. You’ve got to put in the work. You’ve got to grind. You’ve got go through the struggle, and you’ve got to get it.

Sometimes if you got a problem deep rooted in your life, it takes a little bit of time to overcome it in that area.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

To go to the field and train and understand when days are less, that’s where experience helps.

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.

Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.

It’s a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can’t stop playing the game the way you’ve always played it.

I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.

Whatever I engage in, I must push inordinately.

Cross country skiing is great if you live in a small country.

I actually feel more of a woman because I feel like I’m being smart about my choices, and I’m putting my family first, and I’m in charge of my life and my health. I think that’s what makes a woman complete.

I, personally, think there is a really danger of taking food too seriously. Food should be part of the bigger picture.

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery!

My grandfather lived to be late 90s on one side and on the other side, 70s or something. And my father died young, at 63. But he didn’t take very good care of himself.

If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick.

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn’t know how to get along without it.

‚Victory Lap,‘ even the title. It’s the accumulation of trial and error; that’s what I represent; trial and error.