Since day one, since the first time I touched the pen, I wanted to be the best at what I do.

I intend to inspire people with my story: motivate young people that grew up like myself, or even not like myself. Just, you know, go through the human experience.

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.

If a small-town boy like me who bagged groceries was able to make his dreams come true, you can too.

There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we’ve got a system that allows them to do it.

Stay hungry, stay foolish.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That’s what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they’ll go through the pain no matter what happens.

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

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

Never lose a holy curiosity.

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.

It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

Most of us aren’t defeated in one decisive battle. We are defeated one tiny, seemingly insignificant surrender at a time that chips away at who we should really be.

I don’t think there is anything wrong in earning money from the sport you love. If you work hard and get benefits from it, there is no harm. The day you feel that you are not working hard and are only looking at the benefits, that’s where the problem is.

Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.

Don’t grow accustomed to living with less, doing less, and being less to the point that you eventually sit back and accept it.

Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

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

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.

I’ve always strived to be successful, not famous.

For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon.

Rap was my drug.

It is always your next move.

I don’t know who I would have been if I never watched MotoGP.

Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.

Idleness is the parent of psychology.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.

I need music. It’s like my heartbeat, so to speak. It keeps me going no matter what’s going on – bad games, press, whatever!

I love making music. That’s what I love to do. So I don’t feel like there’s any need to take a break unless I want to.

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

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.

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

I teach children to be winners.

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you’re a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

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

If you hear a voice within you say ‚you cannot paint,‘ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.

Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so.

It’s very fun to be the hunter of the sounds. The hunter of the right energy. And it’s not really about if every sound is correct; it’s more the energy – if it hits you in some way, it doesn’t really matter to me if it’s not perfect. I’m still very excited while hunting for songs.

Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.

Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life’s path.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.

Over the course of my career in law enforcement, I have witnessed over and over again the selflessness and sacrifice of law enforcement who lay their lives on the line every day to protect people who they will never meet and people who will never know their names.

You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.