Liverpool is a club with a big, big, big history, and all the clubs in the world have a big history if the present is not too successful. If you have never had success, then nobody knows how it is, but in Liverpool, everybody knows how it was.

History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.

Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.

My songs are the door to every dream I’ve ever had and every success I’ve ever achieved.

My success rate speaks for itself.

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

I played a little basketball. Some football in junior high.

If you read enough biography and history, you learn how people have dealt successfully or unsuccessfully with similar situations or patterns in the past. It doesn’t give you a template of answers, but it does help you refine the questions you have to ask yourself.

I have done for my country, and for all mankind, all that I could do, and I now resign my soul, without fear, to my God – my daughter to my country.

Every successful businessman will have experienced set-backs and failures – they’re lying if they say they haven’t. Virgin has had some tremendously successful businesses and some that have not quite worked out. Virgin Cola springs to mind – the product wasn’t distinct enough from Coca-Cola.

The great thing about America is that you can come from the worst circumstances and become something remarkable.

I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be.

Ambition can creep as well as soar.

We’ve always had a pretty competitive and pretty ferocious battle with British Airways… It’s lasted now about 14 years, and we’re very pleased to have survived it.

The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.

I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.

The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.

I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar.

I’ve made money, and I’ve been ripped off. I’ve had creative freedom, and I’ve been pressured to make hits. I have dealt with diva behavior from crazy musicians, and I have seen genius records by wonderful artists get completely ignored. I love music. I always will.

The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever.

If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun.

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

My measure of success is whether I’m fulfilling my mission.

I’m proud to play for Real Madrid because I have fun; when you no longer have fun it’s a sign that it’s time to leave. For now though, I’m happy here at the greatest club in the world.

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help… Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business – you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.

Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one’s aim.

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

We have a big appetite for putting people down but, at the heart of everyone, there’s enough room for all of us to succeed.

Bayern want a decade of success like Barca. That’s OK if you have the money because it increases the possibility of success. But it’s not guaranteed.

I wasn’t born a natural entrepreneur. I had to be trained.

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

War had always seemed to me to be a purely human behavior. Accounts of warlike behavior date back to the very first written records of human history; it seemed to be an almost universal characteristic of human groups.

All great achievements require time.

Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman’s heart, is startled to find that he must obey the God he summoned.

Hold those things that tell your history and protect them. During slavery, who was able to read or write or keep anything? The ability to have somebody to tell your story to is so important. It says: ‚I was here. I may be sold tomorrow. But you know I was here.‘

Social struggles have been taking place throughout millennia, since human beings, by resorting to wars, were able to take hold of a surplus production to satisfy the essential needs of life.

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God’s children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.

A lifetime contract for a coach means if you’re ahead in the third quarter and moving the ball, they can’t fire you.

We don’t want people to leave the stadium until the game finishes.

Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.

It’s been my experience in politics that you can try and plan it out: ‚I’m going to hit the three ball which will hit the eight ball.‘ You’ve just got to go run and try to do everything right. And then have a little luck.

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

The moment the alarm goes off is the first test; it sets the tone for the rest of the day. The test is not a complex one: when the alarm goes off, do you get up out of bed, or do you lie there in comfort and fall back to sleep? If you have the discipline to get out of bed, you win – you pass the test.

The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.

I have only one understanding of development and of making success, and that’s by going step by step.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.

No matter what happens on the field, getting an education makes you a winner.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of. If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows. With luck, success comes, too.

Democracy is our commitment. It is our great legacy, a legacy we simply cannot compromise. Democracy is in our DNA.

Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.

If atomic bombs are to be added as new weapons to the arsenals of a warring world, or to the arsenals of nations preparing for war, then the time will come when mankind will curse the names of Los Alamos and of Hiroshima.

I don’t see how people are comfortable with seeing other people be great. You can be happy for anybody, but what is your excuse to not want to be great? These people are great because they just say, ‚I’ma do that,‘ and they do it. That’s it. There’s no scientifical process.

Once you start a working on something, don’t be afraid of failure and don’t abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.