The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses – behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.

I believe that one person can make a difference.

We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.

As a father and now a grandfather to three wonderful grandchildren, I know how magical the first year of a child’s life is but also how much hard work it takes. Being able to spend as much time as possible with your loved ones is absolutely vital, especially early on.

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

No sanction can stand against ignited minds.

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

Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive.

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

Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real achievement is liking what you see in the mirror every morning.

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

I don’t think a coach becomes the right coach until he wins a championship.

He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.

Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.

I believe the returns on investment in the poor are just as exciting as successes achieved in the business arena, and they are even more meaningful!

Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.

I didn’t work hard to sit down and not work.

Luck marches with those who give their very best.

People think hard sparring will get you sharp. And you do get sharp in the gym. But anytime I’ve trained that way, I’ve actually been a little bit flatter in the fight. And the knockout shot hasn’t come. It’s almost because my training has been too hard.

The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.

You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.

In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.

Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.

It was clear to me that if I could get through Princeton at the top of my class, I could do anything in the world.

It’s not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It’s because we dare not venture that they are difficult.

I came, I saw, I conquered.

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

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

Everybody has a purpose.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

When you are a beginning film maker you are desperate to survive. The most important thing in the end is survival and being able to get to your next picture.

Not having hope is not an excuse for not doing something.

My mother had bought a sewing machine for me. When I went away to college, she gave me a sewing machine, a typewriter and a suitcase, and my mother made $17 a week working as a maid 12 hours a day, and she did that for me.

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.

I love having my hands in the dirt. It is never a science and always an art. There are no rules. And if it comes down to me versus that weed I’m trying to pull out of the ground that doesn’t want to come out? I know I’ll win.

If you’re going to spend two years of your life on something, it has to matter to you; you have to be passionate about it.

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

Collegiality is crucial to the success of our mission. We could not do the job the Constitution assigns to us if we didn’t – to use one of Justice Antonin Scalia’s favorite expressions – ‚Get over it!‘

If you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it – young or old, successful or less-than-successful, unknown or famous – is changed by it.

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.

I was a fighting machine with a will of iron.

Fame itself… doesn’t really afford you anything more than a good seat in a restaurant.

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

I’ve always wanted to live above my means because it inspired me to work harder.

About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

It isn’t sufficient just to want – you’ve got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

I’ve always felt toward the slightest scene, even if all I had to do in a scene was just to come in and say, ‚Hi,‘ that the people ought to get their money’s worth and that this is an obligation of mine, to give them the best you can get from me.

I was a little worried that young people would think the only game was being political and manipulative when really the bigger game is being so good at what you do that nobody can argue with your results.

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don’t stop, don’t put it down.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can’t be done.

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

In this great country, we celebrate success. We don’t want to penalize those who have done well.

You can be passionate about anything.

Never mistake motion for action.

What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes – ah, they have all the necessary leisure.

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.