Players who are not from the U.K. have to get used to the winds. I have to adapt my style as a result as well. Often, you are forced to keep things simple.

There ought to be an artistic depot where the artist need only hand in his artwork in order to receive what he asks for. As things are, one must be half a business man, and how can one understand – good heavens! – that’s what I really call troublesome.

Each year has been so robust with problems and successes and learning experiences and human experienes that a year is a lifetime at Apple. So this has been ten lifetimes.

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 major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair.

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

You know, God gave me a gift to do other things besides play the game of basketball.

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

I was a naturally aggressive left-back, a cut-throat tackler.

A lot of people ask me when I do a stunt, ‚Jackie, are you scared?‘ Of course I’m scared. I’m not Superman.

The Green Revolution focused on the big three – maize, rice and wheat – and the Green Revolution did not adapt the big three to African conditions, other than South Africa, as much as they should have.

How you played in yesterday’s game is all that counts.

If you can’t convince them, confuse them.

The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.

Duke is an ugly word in Kentucky. Nothing in the world compares to the joy of beating those hateful swine from Duke.

Unless someone wants to look funny, I’ll not recommend anyone to copy my bowling action. But on a serious note, with the confidence that I have got from the amount of runs I have been scoring, when I’m thrown the ball to bowl, I am pretty sure of what I have to do. I may not be the most attractive to watch while bowling, but I can be effective.

I didn’t want to play it boring and safe. I also didn’t want to innovate too much. Second albums, man, they’re even scarier than first ones.

If it wasn’t for baseball, I’d be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.

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

I myself have been on my own and utterly independent since I graduated. I haven’t belonged to any company or any system. It isn’t easy to live like this in Japan.

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.

It takes a smart man to play dumb.

The first step on the way to victory is to recognize the enemy.

Everybody that’s successful lays a blueprint out.

I mean, when you grow up in the inner city and you grow up in a single-parent household, that’s – those are humbling times, you know?

Life is just one damned thing after another.

One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Every time I get in the McLaren I feel more comfortable, my confidence increases and I feel more at home with the team.

Speaking English is like tongue-twist for me. I can speak each word perfect, but then you have to string them together like, ‚Blah, blah, blah.‘ That’s when I get crazy.

Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.

Everybody asks if putting is like shooting free throws. It has a very similar kind of mindset. And it’s just you, the ball, and the target.

I failed to make the chess team because of my height.

No battle plan survives contact with the enemy.

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.

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

I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

Maybe the ones burning my jersey were never LeBron fans anyway.

Basketball is booming, and it’s not just an Under Armour standpoint: it’s about the game itself. Kids going out and playing and being inspired by what we do on the court.

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

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.

The first two games for Churchill, I was so jittery that I didn’t know what to do. I was running more but didn’t know what to do. I’ve no bones accepting the fact that I didn’t know what was happening in the game.

From a young age, I learned to focus on the things I was good at and delegate to others what I was not good at. That’s how Virgin is run. Fantastic people throughout the Virgin Group run our businesses, allowing me to think creatively and strategically.

I have to admit, I sometimes wonder how much more successful I would have been as a coach had it not been for my spending summers on the golf course. I could have watched more film, that’s for sure. One advantage Joe Paterno had over me was that he didn’t play golf.

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

If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.

I’ve thought sometimes about what I like about football, and it’s playing together.

In politics… never retreat, never retract… never admit a mistake.

In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say: ‚We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.‘

Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.

It’s been my experience in politics that you can try and plan it out: ‚I’m going to hit the three ball which will hit the eight ball.‘ You’ve just got to go run and try to do everything right. And then have a little luck.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

I like to get out and get up the court, using my speed and aggressiveness toward the hoop.

I always was that person who was hard on myself and challenged myself no matter what I was doing, whether it was passing third grade or playing basketball.

Just like every person who works for Dortmund is a fan of the club, it was the same at Mainz. When I was a player there, we had 800 supporters on rainy Saturday afternoons, and if we died, no one would notice or come to our funeral. But we loved the club, and we have this same feeling at Dortmund.

Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.