The most important 6 inches on the battlefield is between your ears.

Who wants to leave the door open to being dominated physically by another human being? Jiu Jitsu gives you the ability to not be dominated by that person, and to me, that’s real peace of mind. I don’t have to worry about that when I’m walking around in the world.

Well, I don’t think there’s any need for people to focus on my career.

Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.

If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.

What you put into life is what you get out of it.

To me, football is so much about mental toughness, it’s digging deep, it’s doing whatever you need to do to help a team win and that comes in a lot of shapes and forms.

I think there is a lot made out of age, and what age you feel.

Things do not change; we change.

You don’t have to give way to careless speech or complaining. You don’t have to let your feelings get in the way of what God wants to do in your life.

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.

You’re never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you’re never as bad as they say when you lose.

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

Fear is real, but so is love.

I never read one hateful thing said about me by some 12 year old. So I got to live an actual life. And I’ve kept that mentality. Just because there’s a hurricane going on around you doesn’t mean you have to open the window and look at it.

Luck is believing you’re lucky.

The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.

One thing I’ve tried to never do is make wish lists. I try to have a very steppingstone mentality about this whole thing, where as soon as you make one step you visualize the next step, not five steps ahead.

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.

If you’re doing a biography, you try to stay as accurate as possible to reality. But you really don’t know what was going on in the person’s mind. You just know what was going on in the minds of people around him.

Our brains are either our greatest assets or our greatest liabilities.

Being happy is a matter of personal taste.

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.

Only stupid people are changed by success.

A man’s as miserable as he thinks he is.

People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight… the truly wise person is colorblind.

The people you choose to have around you make all the difference. My family and close friends keep me grounded. You have to have a mind of your own and a strong head on your shoulders. Cricket is the most important thing to me, so the rest of it pales in comparison.

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

Life must be lived as play.

I think that when we know that we actually do live in uncertainty, then we ought to admit it; it is of great value to realize that we do not know the answers to different questions. This attitude of mind – this attitude of uncertainty – is vital to the scientist, and it is this attitude of mind which the student must first acquire.

Don’t think in the morning. That’s a big mistake that people make. They wake up in the morning and they start thinking. Don’t think. Just execute the plan. The plan is the alarm clock goes off, you get up, you go work out. Get some.

So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do.

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

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.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.

I’m like a recovering perfectionist. For me it’s one day at a time.

But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I’m kind of fascist with myself, you know. There’s no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.

If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

Whether you think that you can, or that you can’t, you are usually right.

If you’ve lost your spirit, even living in the richest country in the world can’t help you become rich.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

I don’t want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.

Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.

Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It’s the curse of our age, and I want to avoid it at all costs.

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.

My secret to staying young… Having no sense of time.

He who is contented is rich.

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.

Begin noticing and being careful about keeping your imagination free of thoughts that you do not wish to materialize. Instead, initiate a practice of filling your creative thoughts to overflow with ideas and wishes that you fully intend to manifest. Honor your imaginings regardless of others seeing them as crazy or impossible.

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

Only those who want everything done for them are bored.