My goal is to be number one in MMA.

If someone told me I could play two Asian Cup finals, I wouldn’t have believed it.

The army teaches boys to think like men.

I stayed true to my dreams and, eventually, they came true.

To be honest, there are no problems between me and Messi. People have their own opinions about who they think is the better player. It is what it is, but there is no rivalry beyond games and what happens on the pitch.

Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he’s losing; nobody wants you to quit when you’re ahead.

I’m going to change the way martial arts is viewed. I’m going to change the game. I’m going to change the way people approach fighting.

I look at athletes in all sports and try to picture what kind of football player they’d be, what position they’d play and so on.

Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.

Want balance in your life? Then sure, get your own act together, but don’t forget four powerful disciplines of execution in your team and organization.

In an individual sport, yes, you have to win titles. Baseball’s different. But basketball, hockey? One person can control the tempo of a game, can completely alter the momentum of a series. There’s a lot of great individual talent.

Wherever the enemy wants to fight, we will follow him to the ends of the Earth. We’ll adapt, we’ll train, we’ll advise, we’ll mentor, and we’ll fight, and we’ll fight well.

Lot of players lose hope because of lack of motivation.

Well I think a lot of times we’re putting things off and I’m going to do it later. I’m going to break this bad habit or I’m going to pursue this dream or I’m going to treat my spouse better.

Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.

Colombia has been the leading western recipient of U.S. arms and training as violence has grown through the ’90s.

I don’t want to be called a point guard, but I can’t stop it.

A mission statement is not something you write overnight… But fundamentally, your mission statement becomes your constitution, the solid expression of your vision and values. It becomes the criterion by which you measure everything else in your life.

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

America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.

If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.

I have warned many times about the guaranteed dangers of betting with your heart instead of your head – big darkness, soon come – but every once in a while you get a fair chance to have it both ways, and the annual NCAA basketball Tournament is one of them.

If you’re bored with life – you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things – you don’t have enough goals.

I don’t think the ebbs and flows – get in great shape and then get out of shape and then see if you can get back into shape – is a good thing. So I prefer to keep my arm always ready to go.

Well, I mean, to me, I think my ultimate – my ultimate goal is winning championships and – and I understand that me going down as one of the greats will not happen until I, you know, win a championship.

As a young kid, I really wanted to be rich.

I was a Chicago Bulls, Michael Jordan fan growing up.

I’m all for a good rivalry as long as lines are drawn.

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

Football changed my life and it gave me a platform to get out my aggression and it gave me a sense of value.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.

The mixed martial arts way of life will give you focus.

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

If you have 50 different plug types, appliances wouldn’t be available and would be very expensive. But once an electric outlet becomes standardized, many companies can design appliances, and competition ensues, creating variety and better prices for consumers.

I went through every emotion with tryna pursue what I’m doing, you know what I mean? And I think what’s gon‘ separate whoever’s gon go for something, that you ain’t gon‘ quit.

I’m a golfer, and what are the two sports you can do till you drop? Golf and surfing. They’re great for you limber-wise, they’re great for you health-wise, and they put you in sweet locations.

Football coaches don’t have real problems.

As much as it might look like, to someone else, that I’m successful, I never feel like I’m anywhere. The further I go, I still feel equally further from my eventual goal. Because as I grow, I get more goals. I’m never content.

I didn’t want to lift weights and get all big; I just wanted to get cut.

Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress.

The more minutes you play and the more grind and physical play you endure through the course of a season, you have to re-charge and get your body right for the next season. Be in that weight room and conditioning and that kind of deal.

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

There weren’t a lot of career opportunities in crazy-fast hardcore punk, so you didn’t have a lot of ambition, just the love and passion to play music with your friends.

I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human.

The thought of being President frightens me and I do not think I want the job.

When we are thinking about stuff like embeds, we are not thinking about how we are competing with YouTube. We are thinking about how are we going to make it more useful for people to share stuff on Facebook.

Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.

Hip hop has always been braggin‘ and boasting and ‚I’m better at you than this‘ and ‚I’m better at you than that.‘

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

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

Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride.

It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.

I had been playing for a while, and I asked Louisville Slugger to send me a dozen flame treated bats. But when I got it, I realized they had sent me a box of ashes.

Even though I had won in other categories, I didn’t have any expectations when I came into F1. Qualifying fifth, finishing sixth? I didn’t expect it.

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

Playing basketball all my life, I’ve collected a lot of different basketball shoes. It’s pretty much all I wear.

Learning to live for others isn’t something that just comes naturally to anybody. You have to train yourself to do it.

The McLaren prizes can only help me in my quest to ultimately reach Formula One.

Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel.

The joy of doing well as a batsman for your country is much more than that little joy of going for a party and enjoying music. It is a completely different high, and I get high by performances. That’s what I enjoy now.