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

While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.

In the game of cricket, a hero is a person who respects the game and does not corrupt the game. The one who doesn’t or corrupts the game, they are the villain. They should be punished, and they have been punished in the past.

The unyielding resistance of the Cuban patriots is symbolized by our 5 Heroes. They shall never back down! They shall never surrender!

Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!

Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer to your goal.

When you’re finished changing, you’re finished.

In soloing – as in other activities – it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.

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.

If I wished to do something, even if I couldn’t find anyone who wanted to make the effort with me, I would go out solo climbing. I did find solo climbing very challenging and a little frightening. You knew that you were completely on your own, and you had to overcome all the problems and possible dangers.

I’m just glad I play for Coach Belichick.

Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

If you’re a quarterback, you want everything on your shoulders. You want to be the one to make the decisions.

I think we’re going to the moon because it’s in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It’s by the nature of his deep inner soul… we’re required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.

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.

God gave you a brain. Do the best you can with it. And you don’t have to be Einstein, but Einstein was mentally tough. He believed what he believed. And he worked out things. And he argued with people who disagreed with him. But I’m sure he didn’t call everybody jerks.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

My dad always said, ‚Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.‘

Imagine your family finally making it from nothing to something, and finally getting things going, and finally buying a beautiful house and taking care of your children – and the next day, it’s completely all gone. Zero. Boom. Flat broke. So that’s when I had to man up.

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.

Even when folks are hitting you over the head, you can’t stop marching. Even when they’re turning the hoses on you, you can’t stop.

A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.

The life so short, the craft so long to learn.

Above everything else I’ve done, I’ve always said I’ve had more guts than I’ve got talent.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.

God sent me on earth. He send me to do something, and nobody can stop me. If God want to stop me, then I stop. Man never can.

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.

That’s what you live for as a sportsman. You have to put up a fight.

Life isn’t meant to be easy. It’s hard to take being on the top – or on the bottom. I guess I’m something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things… Life is one crisis after another.

When it all got taken away, I was becoming a young man. So I had to sacrifice to leave my family… Sleeping in my car, getting an apartment for a month and getting evicted the next month. Staying in the $25, $50 hotels.

My priority is cricket. Everything that I get apart from it is a result of the effort on the field. Everything else follows. I am pretty aware of my priorities, and I don’t really focus on things that are not as important to me as cricket.

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

Talent without working hard is nothing.

If you even dream of beating me you’d better wake up and apologize.

I like to work and am a focused person.

I have worked hard since my childhood and worked as a labourer. I put my mind and heart into it.

I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I’ve done that sort of thing in my life, but I’ve always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don’t know why. Because they’re harder. They’re much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you’ve completely failed.

The nice thing is that when people come up to me, it’s the football they remember, not all the other rubbish.

I probably wouldn’t have made it this far if I were a refugee.

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

But for me to have the opportunity to stand in front of a bunch of executives and present myself, I had to hustle in my own way. I can’t tell you how frustrating it was that they didn’t get that. No joke – I’d leave meetings crying all the time.

We clearly see in God’s Word that anything He tells us to do, He will give us the ability to do it. But do we really believe it? Do we want to believe it? It’s easier to come up with excuses for why we can’t do things that are hard or that we really don’t want to do.

There are definitely people who disagree with certain creative decisions you make. Pleasing everyone is pretty hard.

You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.

Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.

Whenever things go a bit sour in a job I’m doing, I always tell myself, ‚You can do better than this.‘

I’m extremely willful to win, and I respond to challenges. Scoring titles and stuff like that… it sounds, well, I don’t care how it sounds – to me, scoring comes easy. It’s not a challenge to me to win the scoring title, because I know I can.

At one point he decided enough was enough.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven’t and don’t.

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.

Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve.

Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.

Nothing will work unless you do.

Hundreds of people who’ve never written before send in ‚Dr. Who‘ scripts. They may have good ideas, but what they fail to realise is that writing for TV is incredibly complicated. They have no idea how difficult it is and what the financial commitment is.

The same law takes place in a system, consisting of many bodies, as in one single body, with regard to their persevering in their state of motion or of rest. For the progressive motion, whether of one single body or of a whole system of bodies, is always to be estimated from the motion of the center of gravity.

Honestly, I never really put the mic down.