On the field, aggression can sometimes be a positive emotion. It boosts performance and can lift your game. But over the years, I have learnt that restrained aggression is a better animal. That way, you will conserve your energy and won’t spend yourself quickly.

I was honoured when they asked me to appear at the president’s birthday rally in Madison Square Garden. There was like a hush over the whole place when I came on to sing ‚Happy Birthday,‘ like if I had been wearing a slip, I would have thought it was showing or something. I thought, ‚Oh, my gosh, what if no sound comes out!‘

I’m much healthier now.

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves.

There’s many ups and downs in the fight game.

If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.

If you’re not producing as much as you consume, or perhaps a little more, then clearly we cannot use the big organization of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us, and it can’t be of very much use to yourself.

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

I take a lot of pride in the work I do, because people pay to see me. They’ve got to get babysitters, park their car, get popcorn and candy. I’ve got to be conscious of that.

The difference between us and them, between you and success, is not that you never fail, but it’s how you recover from those failures – is that you keep getting up time and time again. You figure out what you did wrong, and then you make it right. I say that to my kids every day.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

If you deserve it, go get it.

Live the life you’ve dreamed.

I think so many people live their whole life in fear and doubt and shame.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

There is a need for aloneness, which I don’t think most people realise for an actor. It’s almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you’ll let the whole world in on only for a moment, when you’re acting. But everybody is always tugging at you. They’d all like sort of a chunk of you.

Even if soccer is not number one in the United States, they do things very well here. There’s much our country can learn from the U.S.A., because we all know that soccer is not the main game in India. We can still do more things, like provide better facilities for the players so they can perform well.

I do not live on false promises. I cannot afford to live on bad advice.

I think my top salary was maybe in 1966. I made $17,000 and 11 of that came from selling other players‘ equipment.

Whatever I am, it’s natural… I don’t have to pretend to be aggressive, don’t have to show the opposition that I am on the field. Being aggressive comes naturally to me, helps me perform.

Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.

I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.

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

Good men by nature, wish to know. I know that many will call this useless work… men who desire nothing but material riches and are absolutely devoid of that of wisdom, which is the food and only true riches of the mind.

You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards.

Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is usually painful.

To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.

Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.

For a young person, it is almost a sin, or at least a danger, to be too preoccupied with himself; but for the ageing person, it is a duty and a necessity to devote serious attention to himself.

Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.

It is better to do one’s own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.

After the first day of practice, there’s not one guy who’s playing at 100 percent or who feels great. Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day – it just hurts.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

To be able to finish opportunities that I do get in the paint, that makes a difference.

All I can tell them is pick a good one and sock it. I get back to the dugout and they ask me what it was I hit and I tell them I don’t know except it looked good.

With ideas it is like with dizzy heights you climb: At first they cause you discomfort and you are anxious to get down, distrustful of your own powers; but soon the remoteness of the turmoil of life and the inspiring influence of the altitude calm your blood; your step gets firm and sure and you begin to look – for dizzier heights.

Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

The best is the enemy of the good.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.

I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.

The older you get, the better you get.

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you’re exactly the same.

Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.

Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

If you made me the national commissioner of football, I’d tell you one thing that I would mandate. The second Saturday in September, we’re going to have conference day. Everybody from the SEC plays a Big 12 team. Everybody from the Big Ten is going to play the ACC. Everybody from the Big East is going to play the Pac-10.

If Tiger Woods had played football, he would have been a quarterback.

Learning about climate change triggered my depression in the first place. But it was also what got me out of my depression, because there were things I could do to improve the situation. I don’t have time to be depressed anymore.

Nobody looks like they did when they were 20, so why not take advantage of the fact that you’re changing, emotionally as well as physically?

I enjoy singing my songs in front of people. I enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff like that.

If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.

Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

I myself would like to become more disciplined within my work.

If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun.

I’ve played with IVs before, during and after games. I’ve played with a broken hand, a sprained ankle, a torn shoulder, a fractured tooth, a severed lip, and a knee the size of a softball. I don’t miss 15 games because of a toe injury that everybody knows wasn’t that serious in the first place.

Cowardice… is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.