Never at any point did I feel like missing a training session. I was very keen on improving as a cricketer and as an international player.

I’m always amazed by the people who work on stage who sing night after night, day after day, week in week out.

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

I always dreamt of holding the bat and winning games for India. That was my inspiration to take up cricket.

We’ve got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can’t just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it’s going to get on by itself. You’ve got to keep watering it. You’ve got to really look after it and nurture it.

Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one’s own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.

Politics is a noble activity. We should revalue it, practise it with vocation and a dedication that requires testimony, martyrdom, that is to die for the common good.

To be a bodyguard is to be a kamikaze pilot. Dedicated.

What happens if you stick at something long enough, and study it for so long, you have a different kind of intelligence. It’s not an intellectual thing. It’s almost like an animal intelligence. I call it our form of instinct, almost how a lion knows exactly where its prey is.

I can imagine it’s hard to make a relationship last. I wouldn’t know.

Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.

I think every chef, not just in America, but across the world, has a double-edged sword – two jackets, one that’s driven, a self-confessed perfectionist, thoroughbred, hate incompetence and switch off the stove, take off the jacket and become a family man.

When I get married, it’ll be no secret.

If you gonna wear the mohawk, you stick with it. You don’t just be dibby-dabbing. You make up your mind.

Commit yourself to a mighty purpose.

Our work is never over.

We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what’s in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.

People’s blessings give you the power to work tirelessly. The only thing required is commitment.

The Sisters of Notre Dame at St. Aloysius Grade School influenced my life tremendously. This was due to the fact that they encouraged you always to make sure that God is the focus of your life, and they didn’t allow you to do anything except to the very best of your ability.

I think we’re doing a dreadful job of educating.

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

One must change one’s tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one’s superiority.

Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it’s much more serious than that.

Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.

By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.

My main focus is always to do well on the field for the Indian cricket team. When people say good things about me off the field, I am more than happy to accept them.

I’ve never fought with anyone. A lot of people talk to me, and they’re like, ‚Oh, you would have been fighting all the time when you were younger,‘ but I’m like, ‚I never fought with anyone because I always knew that if I hurt myself, I might lose important time in my cricket career,‘ so I never got into any fight, ever in my life.

Volleyball, I could be pretty good. After a few practices I could be that striker, or whatever they call it.

I’ve sat in sushi bars, really fine ones, and I know how hard this guy worked, how proud he is. I know you don’t need sauce. I know he doesn’t even want you to pour sauce. And I’ve seen customers come in and do that, and I’ve seen him, as stoic as he tries to remain, I’ve seen him die a little inside.

A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.

To do anything to a high level, it has to be total obsession.

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign.

The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses – behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.

Every night on the court I give my all, and if I’m not giving 100 percent, I criticize myself.

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

One thing I’ve always loved about the culture at Microsoft is there is nobody who is tougher on us, in terms of what we need to learn and do better, than the people in the company itself. You can walk down these halls, and they’ll tell you, ‚We need to do usability better, push this or that frontier.‘

I have promised myself that I’m going to do everything I can for as long as I can.

A lot of critics object to what I do, but I got into comedy to make people laugh, and I’ve always worked hard.

If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve man, but deteriorate the cat.

The thing most people don’t pick up when they become an entrepreneur is that it never ends. It’s 24/7.

I would say the most satisfying thing actually is watching my three children each pick up on their own interests and work many more hours per week than most people that have jobs at trying to intelligently give away that money in fields that they particularly care about.

I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell – you see, I have friends in both places.

When I do something, I do it full steam ahead.

Some people, they take their form of working out as a religion that they think is better than everyone else’s. I’m not like that. If you have a better way to work out, and you can teach it to me, and I find it to be useful and gets me in better shape, I’m all about.

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.

Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.

Despite the slowness, the infidelity, the errors and sins it committed and might still commit against its members, the Church, trust me, has no other meaning and goal but to live and witness Jesus.

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

We have a firm commitment to NATO, we are a part of NATO. We have a firm commitment to Europe. We are a part of Europe.

I’m not a real movie star. I’ve still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

I always put myself out there. I’m not afraid to commit to something.

Communication is a skill that you can learn. It’s like riding a bicycle or typing. If you’re willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of evry part of your life.

A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.

As a soccer player, I wanted an FA Cup winner’s medal. As an actor you want an Oscar. As a chef it’s three-Michelin’s stars, there’s no greater than that. So pushing yourself to the extreme creates a lot of pressure and a lot of excitement, and more importantly, it shows on the plate.

Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.

Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning.

I always wanted to do things right and represent myself as somebody that took the art serious and someone that took the business serious also, so I had time to weigh the options and figure it out and do my best to create the situation that was ideal.

No man wants to settle down. It happens. Eventually you’re going to bump into somebody that makes you go, ‚Hmm, I don’t mind seeing this person every day.‘

The same thing I did in 2013 is what I’m trying to do in 2014, which is continue to improve, continue to shock people. You know, I have several projects coming up between 2014 and 2015, and hopefully by 2015, I’ll have another hour of stand-up material where I’ll be able to go on the road and tour again.

Common Core is a big win for education.