Rule number one is: Beat your team-mate.

I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.

There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made.

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

It’s the philosophies of being an athlete that carry me today.

Be careful what you set your heart upon – for it will surely be yours.

The thing that motivates me is a very common form of motivation. And that is, with other folks counting on me, it’s so easy to be motivated.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

What good are fans? You can’t eat applause for breakfast. You can’t sleep with it.

I’m honored that everybody’s inspired off my inspiration.

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

Losers are people who are afraid of losing.

And die of nothing but a rage to live.

The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.

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

Football is a team game and none can survive or excel without the help of the other.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.

The man who has no problems is out of the game.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

If I wish to compose or write or pray or preach well, I must be angry. Then all the blood in my veins is stirred, and my understanding is sharpened.

Don’t work for recognition, but do work worthy of recognition.

Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.

It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

The future doesn’t belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.

You have to feel confident. If you don’t, then you’re going to be hesitant and defensive, and there’ll be a lot of things working against you.

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

We had hundreds of thousands of people all dedicated to doing the perfect job, and I think they did about as well as anyone could ever have expected.

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Of course there are moments that you wonder how long you should be doing it because there are other aspects which are not nice, of this lifestyle. But I just love winning.

People don’t realise how difficult it is to work with people day in and day out that know absolutely nothing.

I like it when someone tells me ‚I don’t agree.‘ This is a true collaborator. When they say ‚Oh, how great, how great, how great,‘ that’s not useful.

There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.

Mental toughness is a lifestyle. It’s something that you live every single day of your life. When I was growing up, I was a lazy kid. I was a lazy kid, and everybody goes, ‚How did you get to where you’re at today? How did you get to where you’re running 200 miles at one time in 39 hours? Being so disciplined?‘

I can’t believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

Never was anything great achieved without danger.

I tell everybody, I get so much because I give so much. I give freely, I give all my time, give all my money, give all of my soul. I try to motivate people. I try to inspire them.

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.

The first time I used a simulator was in 2014 when I was competing in the Ginetta Junior Championship.

If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.

I find a lot of inspiration through visuals. When I was 12, I saw Aurora’s ‚Runaway‘ music video. Something inside me clicked, like, ‚That is what I want to do, no matter whether it goes anywhere or not.‘

I love going one-on-one with someone. That’s what I do. I’ve never lost. It’s a whole different game, just to have them right in front of you and be able to do whatever you want.

Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.

It’s certainly not wrong to want to be a better person. God gave us that desire.

I like the celebrations when I see my teammates do it, when I see fellow footballers on the international scene do it. I think it looks good, it suits most of them, if you know what to do, synchronise, then do it.

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

I don’t want a brat on my team.

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don’t do that by sitting around.

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.