Losing is tough.

You can’t hire someone to practice for you.

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

Dave Mackay is my definition of a superstar. The man broke his leg three times, but wouldn’t be carried off. He walked off.

Winning, to me, is easy. Winning more is the challenge.

It’s so easy to settle for less than God’s best for us because we don’t always feel like taking responsibility for our behavior or putting forth some effort to do what we need to do so we can accomplish great things for God and help people. But the cost of settling for less is actually harder than being completely obedient to God’s will.

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.

Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked.

There is no room for military people, including our veterans, to see themselves as victims, even if so many of our countrymen are prone to relish that role.

In war there is no prize for runner-up.

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

I had a good time boxing. I enjoyed it – and I may come back.

I’ve been through natural disasters. I lived down in Miami and was down there for Hurricane Andrew which was a Category 5. There were members of my family that thought they were going to die. Everyone was in the bathtub.

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

People who pity themselves think, ‚Why would I try to do anything? I’ll just fail.‘

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.

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

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It’s very simple.

A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.

People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

To keep the business going, you gotta keep it boomin‘.

If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

If you don’t stand your ground, then all that happens is people push you backwards.

From caring comes courage.

If at first you don’t succeed… so much for skydiving.

If you’re going through hell, keep going.

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

I can never be safe; I always try and go against the grain. As soon as I accomplish one thing, I just set a higher goal. That’s how I’ve gotten to where I am.

I don’t fight in chase of an individual. I hear this sometimes where fighters work their whole careers to reach a matchup with a certain individual. I do not think in that way.

Good luck has its storms.

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

We all sort of do want incentives for creative people to still exist at a certain level. You know, maybe rock stars shouldn’t make as much; who knows? But you want as much creativity to take place in the future as took place in the past.

Any experience that touches you, in any particular way, is good. It can be a horrible experience.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

I think life on Earth must be about more than just solving problems… It’s got to be something inspiring, even if it is vicarious.

Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.

I always make my dreams into goals.

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.

Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it.

Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.

A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.

Anytime someone tells me that I can’t do something, I want to do it more.

The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.

Stay hungry, stay foolish.

It’s not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It’s because we dare not venture that they are difficult.

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

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

This is a ruthless world and one must be ruthless to cope with it.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.