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.

A good boxing competition gives one the sight of fine men in their prime, trained to the ounce, showing the highest skill, pluck and endurance in carrying out their attack and defence under strict rules of fair play and good temper.

I take inspiration from everyone and everything. I’m inspired by current champions, former champions, true competitors, people dedicated to their dream, hard workers, dreamers, believers, achievers.

I will fight in many weight divisions.

My mom was a terrible parent of young children. And thank God – I thank God every time I think of it – I was sent to my paternal grandmother. Ah, but my mother was a great parent of a young adult.

He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.

Obviously this song is an achievement for me in my career, but what makes me really feel good is to make Latinos feel proud. To provoke that pride that a pop figure and someone so big in music globally like Drake would sing with me completely in Spanish and create this hit ‚MIA.‘ That’s the best part of it.

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

The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the same things after I got it – oh! It was quite crucial for people, and it helped our morale because apartheid did look invincible.

Would I swap what I have achieved as a cook if I could have been as successful as a footballer? Definitely.

I feel like I’m the kind of guy that would have kids before getting married. The first thing would be kids.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

If you want someone to say, ‚She’s so sweet, and she’s so cute, and, honey, point your foot,‘ that’s not my school. You can go to the YMCA and have a nobody teach your kid if that’s what you want to hear.

My parents pretty much realized that I would do whatever I wanted, and that was it, really.

What changed our lives forever was when Malcolm had the idea to sell rock ‚n roll records to trendy customers.

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered – either by themselves or by others.

First and foremost, we need to be the adults we want our children to be. We should watch our own gossiping and anger. We should model the kindness we want to see.

Feels good to try, but playing a father, I’m getting a little older. I see now that I’m taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.

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.

To kids, I’ve always been more than just some big tough black guy. I train to be tough – I box and do karate – but underneath all that toughness is a tender man.

It is extremely difficult to say how long the process actually took to finally achieve my fragrance, Boudoir, because there was a lot of time waiting around for other people.

I was 18 years old, and it was a dream come true for me to work out and eat great food for free. What else do you want in life? People think that is what it is like to be in a SEAL team, but it is less than a fraction of your career as a real SEAL.

Without failure there is no achievement.

These technologies can make life easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and be able to get in touch with other parents and support groups, get medical information, the latest experimental drugs. These things can profoundly influence life. I’m not downplaying that.

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Successful people make money. It’s not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

My parents were just constantly affirming me in everything that I did. Late at night, I’d wake up and hear my mother talking over my bed, saying, ‚You’re going to do great on this test. You can do anything you want.‘

The kids are old enough now – I just want to let them be kids. I don’t want to comment on them too much. They’re at an age where I just want to let them be kids.

Don’t judge other people. For example, if you want God’s anointing to be on you for parenting, you need to be careful not to criticize other parents.

Bread without flesh is a good diet, as on many botanical excursions I have proved. Tea also may easily be ignored. Just bread and water and delightful toil is all I need – not unreasonably much, yet one ought to be trained and tempered to enjoy life in these brave wilds in full independence of any particular kind of nourishment.

I want parents to teach that academic intelligence is essential, but so is financial intelligence.

Brad and I have never wanted our kids to be actors, but we also want them to be around film and be a part of Mommy and Daddy’s life and for it not to be kept from them, either. We just want them to have a good, healthy relationship with it.

I’m gonna be making records anyway, even if I had to sell ‚em out of the trunk of my car. I’m that kind of musician and singer.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

Being a kid’s not easy. You’re transforming and becoming a human being. At some point, you have everyone taking care of you, and then, all of a sudden, you’re out in the world.

The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction.

My life turned out to be beyond my greatest dreams.

I don’t take pictures when I’m with my kids, for the sake of my kids. It’s important when you’re as busy as I am that you give your kids your time when you’re with them, and nothing compromises that. I’ve been lucky enough to have fans that understand that.

Kids will remind you that, even though you’ve gone down a road 100 times, it’s brand new for them – and that’s healthy.

My success rate speaks for itself.

Never have we stolen the intelligences of other peoples. On the contrary, in Cuba we have trained tens of thousands of doctors and other top-level professionals, for free, in order to send them back to their own countries.

Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.

Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.

Somewhere it is written that parents who are critical of other people’s children and publicly admit they can do better are asking for it.

Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one.

Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

When you’re around the kids, you feel like you act the most grown up just because you’re supposed to lead. I say things, like every other parent, that reminds you of your own parents. One thing I do know about being a parent, you understand why your father was in a bad mood a lot.

Among physicists, I’m respected I hope.

My next baby will be my new record.

Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?

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.

I know from having had a child, and from having been a child myself, that children will copy you.

The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.

I want to work; then, as my kids get older, I want to have adventures. I want to visit all their countries: learn and live inside all their cultures.

All great achievements require time.