The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

I grew up where, when a door closed, a window didn’t open. The only thing I had was cracks. I’d do everything to get through those cracks – scratch, claw, bite, push, bleed. Now the opportunity is here. The door is wide open, and it’s as big as a garage.

Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

I want to represent… to the kids to draw strength from me. So they can see that everybody goes through something, but you can rise up and do your best. Just try.

Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

To make an embarrassing admission, I like video games. That’s what got me into software engineering when I was a kid. I wanted to make money so I could buy a better computer to play better video games – nothing like saving the world.

Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn’t matter.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

Just do some kind of workout. Doesn’t matter if it’s going for a walk around the block, going for a jog, doing some calisthenics, lifting weights, going to a pool and swimming – you name it. But do something that gets your blood flowing and gets your mind in the game.

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

A boy carries out suggestions more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim.

No boxer in the history of boxing has had Parkinson’s. There’s no injury in my brain that suggests that the illness came from boxing.

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we’re all sweating it – when we’re worried that the bill won’t pass, and it seems like all is lost – Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward… with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace.

I am sure as everyone knows that I am not the happiest if I don’t do a good job in qualifying or the race.

Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

Never was anything great achieved without danger.

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

I feel like this: Whatever is in your path and in your heart, you need to do.

The companies that work are the ones that people really care about and have a vision for the world so do something you like.

I’m not sure what you need first – the players believing or others believing in them – but in the end, both have to think it.

If you can ask a young man to give his life for his country, you can lead people.

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.

I played a great horse yesterday! It took seven horses to beat him.

Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.

Don’t worry about motivation. Motivation is fickle. It comes and goes. It is unreliable – and when you are counting on motivation to get your goals accomplished, you will likely fall short.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

Winning – that’s the most important to me. It’s as simple as that.

Living indoors without fresh air quickly poisons the blood and makes people feel tired and seedy when they don’t know why. For myself, I sleep out of doors in winter as well as summer. I only feel tired or seedy when I have been indoors a lot. I only catch cold when I sleep in a room.

It is easier to stay out than get out.

I can hold my own when it comes to burping. I’ve got a good feeling that I could win a championship.

Remembering what you’ve been through and how that has strengthened your mindset can lift you out of a negative brain loop and help you bypass those weak, one-second impulses to give in. Even if you’re feeling low and beat down by life right now, I guarantee you can think of a time or two when you overcame odds and tasted success.

Hitch your wagon to a star.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

I do the very best I know how – the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

I wouldn’t ever say if you’re having tough times then there must be something wrong with you or your attitude. Life’s a fight. It’s a good fight of faith. I encourage people to stay up, stay hopeful, stay faith-filled.

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

Whatever that means, however you got on that mountain, why not try to climb it? And do it in your own way.

My cash cows, the slick magazines, were put out of business by TV.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

The Premier League is one of the most difficult in the world. There’s five, six, or seven clubs that can be the champions. Only one can win, and all the others are disappointed and live in the middle of disaster.

If you want to conquer fear, don’t sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

I want to challenge you today to get out of your comfort zone. You have so much incredible potential on the inside. God has put gifts and talents in you that you probably don’t know anything about.

Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.

One today is worth two tomorrows.

If you are full of motivation as a player, if you are full of concentration, I am open arms.

You can’t think; you just gotta do things.

I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day. And then I want you to act.

The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.

I get up every morning and say, ‚Father, give me strength today, not strength so I can lift 500 pounds, but give me strength, Lord, so when I speak, my words might motivate, might inspire somebody, Lord, when they see me, let them see you. When they hear me, Lord, let them hear you. In your holy name I pray.‘

I came, I saw, I conquered.

If all you’re doing is grinding for the man, it’s going to burden you. Once you say, ‚Hey, I’m grinding for the man, but I’m putting money away, and this is part of my exit strategy,‘ you’re working for you.