I’ve played with IVs before, during and after games. I’ve played with a broken hand, a sprained ankle, a torn shoulder, a fractured tooth, a severed lip, and a knee the size of a softball. I don’t miss 15 games because of a toe injury that everybody knows wasn’t that serious in the first place.

My dream is to continue filming until my body tells me to stop.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

The way I figured it, I was even with baseball and baseball with me. The game had done much for me, and I had done much for it.

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

The course of true love never did run smooth.

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

A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.

There’s people that tried to celebrate when I lost that got nothing to do with it. That’s not the sign of a champion.

I can understand how some people might resent me for having the audacity to continue playing music, but it’d take a lot more than that to stop me from doing it. I started Foo Fighters because I didn’t want to retreat.

If you look at space companies, they’ve failed either because they’ve had a technical solution where success was not a possible outcome, they were unable to attract a critical mass of talent, or they just ran out of money. The finish line is usually a lot further away than you think.

I worked out early on to give up things I couldn’t do well at all.

Volleyball, I could be pretty good. After a few practices I could be that striker, or whatever they call it.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

A lot of people tell me a lot of things about my conduct, my game, my future… but I try to stay away from their words of wisdom. I don’t let it distract me. On the field, you will be facing the ball alone. If you fail, you will the only one to blame. So, you should be the one deciding for yourself.

I’m in the game of spinning plates. I’m spinning a boxing plate. I’m spinning a Tae Kwon Do plate. I’m spinning a Jujitsu plate. I’m spinning a freestyle wrestling plate. I’m spinning a karate plate. If I was to put all them down and have one boxing plate spinning, it would be like a load off my shoulders.

I’m no longer just a candidate. I’m the President. I know what it means to send young Americans into battle, for I have held in my arms the mothers and fathers of those who didn’t return. I’ve shared the pain of families who’ve lost their homes, and the frustration of workers who’ve lost their jobs.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

Well, I mean, to me, I think my ultimate – my ultimate goal is winning championships and – and I understand that me going down as one of the greats will not happen until I, you know, win a championship.

If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.

There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.

I’ve had two cancer bouts in my years on the Court, and the first one, Justice O’Connor told me, ‚Now, you do the chemotherapy on Friday because you’ll get over it during the weekend and you can be back in court on Monday.‘

Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.

The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, ‚Thus far and no farther.‘

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame – Southern Methodist University game and doesn’t care who wins.

You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

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

The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman’s heart.

All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me… You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

Duke is an ugly word in Kentucky. Nothing in the world compares to the joy of beating those hateful swine from Duke.

I do think coaches need to get away from the game more, though. It’s good for them.

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

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.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

I look at athletes in all sports and try to picture what kind of football player they’d be, what position they’d play and so on.

The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every calling, is diligence.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

You can’t have it all, all at once. Who – man or woman – has it all, all at once? Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all. But in different periods of time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

It takes up enough of my time and interest just working on comedy. I just enjoy it and love doing it.

They say it is the first step that costs the effort. I do not find it so. I am sure I could write unlimited ‚first chapters‘. I have indeed written many.

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

Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.

Really, you don’t lose until you stop trying.

You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what’s happening in Africa, and if we’re honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.

I’m a golfer, and what are the two sports you can do till you drop? Golf and surfing. They’re great for you limber-wise, they’re great for you health-wise, and they put you in sweet locations.

We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.

I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.

I never really had the classic struggle. I had faith.

There is something about building up a comradeship – that I still believe is the greatest of all feats – and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It’s the intense effort, the giving of everything you’ve got. It’s really a very pleasant sensation.

Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one’s own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.

To be able to finish opportunities that I do get in the paint, that makes a difference.

Good entrepreneurs are community builders, actively involved with their communities and dedicated to the community’s well being. If you’re dedicated to your community, it will be dedicated to you.

If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married.

The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.