There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

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.

You can’t die with an unfinished book.

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him.

My success comes in making fun of whatever you’re doing. That’s my way.

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

There is no substitute for victory.

Success is not a stop sign.

In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility – I welcome it.

My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring still.

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

Magic has five championships. I have five championships. I’m pretty sure we both know what we’re doing.

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

What I believe unites the people of this nation, regardless of race or region or party, young or old, rich or poor, is the simple, profound belief in opportunity for all – the notion that if you work hard and take responsibility, you can get ahead.

You aren’t going to find anybody that’s going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance.

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!

Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that’s one of the hardest things to do because you don’t always know exactly where you’re going, and you shouldn’t.

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

You must take the compromise to win, or else nothing. That means: you race or you do not.

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

All my life, I’ve been trying to make a hole-in-one. The closest I’ve come is a bogey.

At United, there are great traditions, which you can’t buy in one or two years. They are created by victories. You need to prove again and again that you are better than the others. Manchester United have always done this, and are still doing it, so they are the best.

There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.

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.

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

The hippie movement politicized my generation. When it ended, we all started looking back at our own history, looking, in my case, for motives of rebellion.

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

The richest people in the world look for and build networks; everyone else looks for work.

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

I owe everything to Nirvana. But I can’t let that overshadow the future. For the first few years, I didn’t even want to talk about Nirvana. Partly because it was just painful to talk about losing Kurt but also because I wanted the Foo Fighters to mean something.

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.

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.

Black people comprehend the South. We understand its weight. It has rested on our backs… I knew that my heart would break if ever I put my foot down on that soil, moist, still, with old hurts. I had to face the fear/loathing at its source or it would consume me whole.

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight – it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

Quitting doesn’t enter my mind.

In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.

The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.

If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don’t care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.

The successful men I admired all built their bodies.

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.

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 can understand wanting to have millions of dollars; there’s a certain freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes with that.

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.

This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble.

You have to come to your closed doors before you get to your open doors… What if you knew you had to go through 32 closed doors before you got to your open door? Well, then you’d come to closed door number eight and you’d think, ‚Great, I got another one out of the way’… Keep moving forward.

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.

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

There are people out there who hate me and who say I’m arrogant, vain, and whatever. That’s all part of my success. I am made to be the best.

In pop music, the public usually see the results – the hit records, the Grammy Awards performances, the concert tours – but not all the work that goes into getting into the spotlight. And not everyone realizes that, even if you have a lot of talent, chances are you won’t make it.

A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.

History, a distillation of rumour.

Success comes to those who have an entire mountain of gold that they continually mine, not those who find one nugget and try to live on it for fifty years.

Treachery has existed as long as there’s been warfare, and there’s always been a few people that you couldn’t trust.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.