Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn’t.

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

Computers double their performance every month.

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

I do not abuse players. I talk to myself; I abuse myself. It’s my way of letting off steam. I do it after every century; I do not do it always. I keep telling myself: ‚Improve, improve from the previous match, the previous shot. You can do it.‘

When I won the Golden Gloves in 1960, that made me realize I had a chance. And when I won at the Olympics, that sealed it: I was the champ.

If I had a talent, it was for looking askew at everything, possibly more than my contemporaries. But I had to really push myself to be a writer.

I have practically no private life. I’m already used to this and ready for it. Yes, sometimes it is hard, but it is the choice I made.

A flippant, frivolous man may ridicule others, may controvert them, scorn them; but he who has any respect for himself seems to have renounced the right of thinking meanly of others.

Getting rich is about fun. It’s a game, and you have to treat it that way.

If you get knocked down – setbacks in life, like applying for a job if they don’t hire you – keep trying, keep getting up, keep doing it.

Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable.

Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense of security and a false sense of ‚I know.‘ Nothing has inflicted more suffering on humanity than its dogmas.

And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.

Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.

Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.

We have the tendency to run away from suffering and to look for happiness. But, in fact, if you have not suffered, you have no chance to experience real happiness.

We’ve been programmed, from the time that we were very, very little, about what we can’t do – about what is impossible.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

Quitting doesn’t enter my mind.

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

There is a place in the net where the keeper cannot reach the ball.

I have the Midas touch, in the way that when I hook up with a project, I feel, not speaking cocky or conceited, but there’s a confidence I have. I learned that from Muhammad Ali; I used to bodyguard him. He taught me about confidence. So when it comes to any job I work, I’m gonna do it good; I’m going to bring it over the top.

Louis van Gaal is one of the most successful managers in the world.

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

You have to be tough and have a lot of faith.

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.

We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.

I didn’t get trained by the school system like other kids, and when I did concentrate on learning, my mind was cluttered and locked by the programming of the system.

Things do not always happen the way I would like them to happen, and I had better get used to that.

One might say that our words are a movie screen that reveals what we have been thinking and the attitudes we have.

Don’t talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.

All art really does is keep you focused on questions of humanity, and it really is about how do we get on with our maker.

Satan wants us to constantly focus on everything that is wrong with us and look at how far we still have to go. But God desires for us to rejoice in how far we have already come.

The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world.

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.

By any accepted standard, I have had more than nine lives. I counted them up once, and there were 13 times I almost and maybe should have died.

I do not love to be printed on every occasion, much less to be dunned and teased by foreigners about mathematical things or to be thought by our own people to be trifling away my time about them when I should be about the king’s business.

Be the hunter, not the hunted.

The final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.

I’ll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They’re too much fun.

Now, you lose something in your life, or you come into a conflict, and there’s gonna come a time that you’re gonna know: There was a reason for that. And at the end of your life, all the things you thought were periods, they turn out to be commas. There was never a full stop in any of it.

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Whenever you’re going through a tough time, generally, you become more compassionate, you become softer, you become more thoughtful, kinder. These are all spiritual qualities that will help you to align yourself with God and God consciousness rather than with a split fear-based consciousness.

For me, education was power.

I just have always felt that people don’t change, circumstances change.

Around every corner, always protect the engine that powers you.

I have always thought I was the best ever player.

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

People need motivation to do anything. I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation.

Well, you know, I’m the forever optimist.

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.

Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience.

The world can criticize me, but l can always criticize it back.

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.