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 love soccer, love tennis… Roger Federer has been a favourite for a long, long time. The kind of consistency he has shown, 16 Grand Slam titles… The way he handles himself in pressure situations is admirable… He is so calm… In soccer, I’m a huge fan of Barcelona… I like watching Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi and David Villa.

Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.

The U. S. Constitution doesn’t guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.

From the moment I open my eyes, I’m trying to free my body. I’m trying to get looser, more flexible, to gain control. Movement is medicine to me.

I lived a sloppy life. So I took very small increments in my life. I started making my bed. I started cleaning my room. There were dishes in the sink. It started off with doing small house chores. I saw that the yard needed to be mowed. So instead of being told it needed to be mowed, I would mow it.

I don’t think there’s anyone who would say they don’t want or need more of God’s power in their life.

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!

I always teach myself calm and visualization stuff.

A coach, especially at a college level – much more at a college or high school level, than at a pro level – you’re more of a teacher than an actual coach.

Players now have a groin injury for months and months, and I often think they don’t really give a toss whether they’re playing or not because they’re getting paid anyway.

I want to believe that I am improving. This is something that I take really seriously.

Modesty is the color of virtue.

In order to heal others, we first need to heal ourselves. And to heal ourselves, we need to know how to deal with ourselves.

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain – and most fools do.

When did I know I had talent? I think it started when I first started playing sports, organized sports.

A chorus is not easy.

Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.

Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.

It’s very difficult to regulate yourself, and if you learn to do that, well, it starts to spill over.

Have the humility to learn from those around you.

Don’t bring your need to the marketplace, bring your skill. If you don’t feel well, tell your doctor, but not the marketplace. If you need money, go to the bank, but not the marketplace.

As a part of the NFL, things change every year.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

I’m not a bad person.

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else’s hands, but not you.

Players today moan about the number of games, but when you’re young, you can’t play enough.

The men I idolized built their bodies and became somebody – like Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger – and I thought, ‚That can be me.‘ So I started working out. The funny thing is I didn’t realize back then that I was having a defining moment.

What one has to do usually can be done.

I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china.

Being humble matters.

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.

It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

I think as long as I do a good job and put in all my effort to proving that I’m worth it, then everything should be fine.

It’s not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.

Oh, God, I struggle with low self-esteem all the time! I think everyone does. I have so much wrong with me, it’s unbelievable!

I think every entertainer’s had nights when things go wrong. I mean you can’t remember everything all the time, and especially if you’re having hard times personally, things going on that you – you know, and then people make it worse. And that makes you feel worse.

I’d just as soon play tennis with the net down.

No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one’s sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one’s character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.

I’m just going to say it: I’m pro-guilt. Guilt is good. Guilt helps us stay on track because it’s about our behavior. It occurs when we compare something we’ve done – or failed to do – with our personal values.

To be a monk is to have time to practice for your transformation and healing. And after that to help with the transformation and healing of other people.

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

Get mad, then get over it.

Actors know what actors are insecure about – and they’re all insecure.

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

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man’s happiness really lies in contentment.

I don’t want to be an action star, an action star’s life is so short. I want my life to get longer, I want my career to get longer.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.

Over the years, I’ve learned that a confident person doesn’t concentrate or focus on their weaknesses – they maximize their strengths.

If every day you practice walking and sitting meditation and generate the energy of mindfulness and concentration and peace, you are a cell in the body of the new Buddha. This is not a dream but is possible today and tomorrow.

I spent most of the early years of my walk with God focused on what was wrong with me. Most of us probably do that, hoping to change ourselves.