The only time my records are going to be broken is by my own spawn. I’m going be training that child out the womb.

I’m dying to be a great dad one day, whenever that day comes.

NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve. It’s sad that we are turning the programme in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation and stimulation it provides to young people.

America has tossed its cap over the wall of space.

I can encourage my daughter to love her body, but what really matters are the observations she makes about my relationship with my own body.

You learn that there’s no right way to do it, no wrong way to do it. It’s just what you feel comfortable with, to trust that, and don’t let anybody box you in to a certain style of parenting or make you feel a certain way about what your kids do.

It’s much worse to read criticism about your son than yourself.

Without education, your children can never really meet the challenges they will face. So it’s very important to give children education and explain that they should play a role for their country.

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

Just because I managed to do a little something, I don’t want anyone back home to think I got the big head.

I take my kids to school. And if I go to work, I go to work, and they visit me on set. I come home. I have dinner with my family. I have breakfast with my family. I have a very solid, very warm home.

I set records that will never be equaled. In fact, I hope 90% of them don’t even get printed.

One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child’s name and how old he or she is.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time.

You always want your people to be proud of what you have accomplished.

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.

Among physicists, I’m respected I hope.

I love our daughters more than anything in the world – more than life itself. And while that may not be the first thing that some folks want to hear from an Ivy-league-educated lawyer, it is truly who I am. So for me, being Mom-in-Chief is, and always will be, job number one.

I want to elongate my cricketing career as a consistent player. I have personal goals I would like to achieve someday.

My records are borderline dance records. They’ve got a real electro-rock heart and soul, and the vibe of the sentiment is pop, but there’s a lot of people that were like, ‚This is a dance record.‘

There’s always gonna be rock n‘ roll bands, there’s always gonna be kids that love rock n‘ roll records, and there will always be rock n‘ roll.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

Talking to a player helps, but in our sport the majority of learning happens from watching another player. You pick up things like being punctual, being nice to everyone, making sure you give your 100 per cent even in training.

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

I’ve learned new footwork patterns that are very unusual. I’ve learned how to find a lower centre of gravity, and I’ve found more angles to throw shots.

The kids are a big part of my schedule.

I’ve done everything I wanted to do, even if I have had to pay a very high price – which has been the case most of the time.

Excellence is a continuous process and not an accident.

Wherever the enemy wants to fight, we will follow him to the ends of the Earth. We’ll adapt, we’ll train, we’ll advise, we’ll mentor, and we’ll fight, and we’ll fight well.

I really love training and being in good shape, and it’s so much a part of my life now, so it never really feels like work to me.

If you give a person a fish, they’ll fish for a day. But if you train a person to fish, they’ll fish for a lifetime.

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

When a child is locked in the bathroom with water running and he says he’s doing nothing but the dog is barking, call 911.

I just want to make sure when I have kids, I can spend time with them. That’s the whole point.

Treat your children like the blessings they are or don’t have them at all.

I think about my own sons and my own daughters, and I’m sure that many parents are concerned about what their children are exposed to.

Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they’re already asleep.

I went to a lovely school, and I got an incredible education. And I actually think that my education is what really sets me apart, ‚cause I’m very smart.

These days, children can text on their cell phone all night long, and no one else is seeing that phone. You don’t know who is calling that child.

You may think it was a very little thing, and in these days it seems to me like a trifle, but it was a most important incident in my life. I could scarcely credit that I, the poor boy, had earned a dollar in less than a day; that by honest work, I had earned a dollar. I was a more hopeful and thoughtful boy from that time.

My success rate speaks for itself.

Any teammate of mine that had a kid and a boy that was capable of playing baseball, I think I set a terrific example of ‚Don’t do this‘ and ‚Don’t do that.‘ And that’s one of the things that I’m most proud of.

I mean, I look at my dad. He was twenty when he started having a family, and he was always the coolest dad. He did everything for his kids, and he never made us feel like he was pressured. I know that it must be a great feeling to be a guy like that.

My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost.

What makes you a SEAL, what makes you a SEAL is being a good tactician on the battle field, understanding how to shoot, move, and communicate, knowing small unit maneuver warfare. That’s what makes a good SEAL, and so that is the course of instruction that I taught, was getting SEAL platoons ready for deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan.

I had this child, and it destroyed my family.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

I don’t look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.

A lot of the records you buy, there’s nothing you can hold in your hand, it’s all 1’s and 0’s, this digital cloud floating in the ether. but with analog albums, you can hold it in your hand.

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

Education commences at the mother’s knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

Just talk to me as a father – not what the Constitution says. What do you feel?

To bring a healthy child into this world, raise them right and watch them grow is the biggest miracle there is.

Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.

It’s all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you’re properly trained.

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.