There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

If you’re going to wake up early all the time, and you’re working hard, and you’re working out, sometimes you’re going to get tired. It’s OK. It’s acceptable – somewhat. We’re all human, unfortunately.

It’s easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

I didn’t work hard to sit down and not work.

Everybody that I was in school with had an uncle or father in the law, and I started to realize that I was going to end up writing briefs for about ten years for these fellows who I thought I was smarter than. And I was kind of losing my feeling for that.

I’ll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it’s sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.

Success is the child of audacity.

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

The United States and our allies are determined: we refuse to live in the shadow of this ultimate danger.

Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?

It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.

It’s like a muscle – if you stop going to the gym or stop running, you get weak. The military teaches you these great values, but we don’t keep up the discipline on our own, and we lose it. So wherever you go, keep that discipline up.

You gotta water your plants. Nobody can water them for you.

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed – there’s so little competition.

In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

If you choose to do something, attack it. You can hate me, but there’s one thing you can’t say about me – that I didn’t attack it.

Often, in the real world, it’s not the smart that get ahead but the bold.

Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.

Successful people will always tell you you can do something. It’s the people who have never accomplished anything who will always discourage you from trying to achieve excellent things.

Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.

I plan on taking athletics as far as I can.

I’m concerned that my technical skills have advanced to the point where I can get closer to what I’m aiming for, which is not such a good thing.

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.

Any hand that I’ve shaken, any person that I met when I was Joe Blow, now that I’m this guy Kevin Hart, has come back. That’s why I treat everybody with respect. I’m always a nice pleasant guy to meet because when they come back to you, they remember.

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.

All I ever wanted to do with my life was own a little house. I did that way back with ‚Rocky,‘ so now everything I do is just icing on the cake.

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

I stayed true to my dreams and, eventually, they came true.

In the world today many people rightfully feel entitled to have success and the good things in life, but they usually understand it will require sacrifice and hard work.

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

There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Without football, my life is worth nothing.

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

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.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

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.

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

If at first you don’t succeed… so much for skydiving.

Desire is the very essence of man.

I know I want to always do the best I can.

I’m an all-or-nothing kind of guy, I guess.

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

If I waited for perfection… I would never write a word.

There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

We are twice armed if we fight with faith.

I have to keep improving myself and challenging myself.

The most effective way to do it, is to do it.