Mentally, the only players who survive in the pros are the ones able to manage all their responsibilities. Everybody struggles in different ways.

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

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can’t find them, make them.

It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

The sun doesn’t always shine in West Virginia, but the people do.

Genius is patience.

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm… in the real world all rests on perseverance.

If you choose to do something, attack it. You can hate me, but there’s one thing you can’t say about me – that I didn’t attack it.

Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.

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

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

I’m just like you – I want to be a good human being. I’m doing my best, and I’m working at it. And I’m trying to be a Christian. I’m always amazed when people walk up to me and say, ‚I’m a Christian.‘ I always think, ‚Already? You’ve already got it?‘ I’m working at it. And at my age, I’ll still be working at it at 96.

Begin – to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.

Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Never, never, never give up.

Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

Go as far as you can see; when you get there you’ll be able to see farther.

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.

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

I was 18 years old, and it was a dream come true for me to work out and eat great food for free. What else do you want in life? People think that is what it is like to be in a SEAL team, but it is less than a fraction of your career as a real SEAL.

I had so many people try to talk me out of starting a rocket company, it was crazy.

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.

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

When I was writing ‚Kitchen Confidential,‘ I was in my 40s, I had never paid rent on time, I was 10 years behind on my taxes, I had never owned my own furniture or a car.

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

I don’t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.

You know, when I have a bad game, it continues to humble me and know that, you know, you still have work to do and you still have a lot of people to impress.

Why did I become Jackie Chan? Mostly because I work very hard. When people were sleeping, I was still training.

When I look back at what I had to go through in black baseball, I can only marvel at the many black players who stuck it out for years in the Jim Crow leagues because they had nowhere else to go.

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

Living in America and, of course, just being women in general, we’ve got more strength than we think we do.

A family shares hardships and a connected history.

I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right.

The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

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

A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.

My reputation grows with every failure.

I want to go and go, and then drop dead in the middle of something I’m loving to do. And if that doesn’t happen, if I wind up sitting in a wheelchair, at least I’ll have my high heels on.

One of the wonderful things about Oprah: She teaches you to keep on stepping.

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.

If you get knocked down – setbacks in life, like applying for a job if they don’t hire you – keep trying, keep getting up, keep doing it.

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

Nothing surprises me anymore in the NFL.

We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.

These times are so hard, and they’re getting even harder.

The emotion to handle the pressure is one of the biggest challenges in football – it’s the top challenge.

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

God helps those who help themselves.

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

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

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.

I can’t jump the highest. I’m obviously not the biggest, not the strongest.

This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble.

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.