Losing is not an option in Kolkata. It’s not easy, a lot of players even quit.

However my parents – both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.

I shook up the world, I shook up the world.

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.

No one knows what to say in the loser’s locker room.

We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.

Ali’s got a left, Ali’s got a right – when he knocks you down, you’ll sleep for the night; and when you lie on the floor and the ref counts to ten, hope and pray that you never meet me again.

There’s many ups and downs in the fight game.

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

I am not afraid of saying something and going and pursuing it. That’s it. I see it in my mind. I say it out loud. I go and do it.

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

I’ve got a woman’s ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.

The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.

You gotta keep trying to find your niche and trying to fit into whatever slot that’s left for you or to make one of your own.

I love everything about my job, except being away from the kids.

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

Whatever you do, do with all your might.

Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.

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

It’s like a muscle – if you stop going to the gym or stop running, you get weak. The military teaches you these great values, but we don’t keep up the discipline on our own, and we lose it. So wherever you go, keep that discipline up.

As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.

The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

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

I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.

I don’t think about the end game. I’ve got lots to occupy my mind. It’s the rage that keeps me going.

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.

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

I try to make it look easy, but the behind-the-scenes stuff is the challenge.

I never thought about what people would say about me. I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor, and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

I am not designed to come second or third. I am designed to win.

As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.

Do all you can to make your dreams come true.

If something’s important enough, you should try. Even if – the probable outcome is failure.

I was a housewife, so I learned to write in times off, and I don’t think I ever gave it up, though there were times when I was very discouraged because I began to see that the stories I was writing were not very good, that I had a lot to learn, and that it was a much, much harder job than I had expected.

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

Any of us can be happy and have a good attitude when everything is going our way. But I believe it’s the real test of your character and of your faith to say, ‚Things are not going our way, but I’m still being good to people; I’m still attending church; I still have a good attitude.‘

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

The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.

I didn’t take many penalties, but I never missed one.

I’ve seen how the issues that come across a president’s desk are always the hard ones – the problems where no amount of data or numbers will get you to the right answer.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

If you look at my life, generally, I’ve been put in situations which were difficult and which I conquered.

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

We all face storms in life. Some are more difficult than others, but we all go through trials and tribulation. That’s why we have the gift of faith.

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

My goals are so high that I don’t have time to relax in any way, shape or form.

For a true writer, each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.

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

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

Get busy living, or get busy dying.

The most challenging project I’ve ever done, I think, is every single thing I’ve ever tried to do. It’s never easy.

All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

Giving up cannot be an option.

Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.

The United States and our allies are determined: we refuse to live in the shadow of this ultimate danger.

As a kid, even I knew everything about my favourite cricketers. I used to know everything possible. Now I see kids knowing about me. It feels good.