There’s a reason that I have confidence out there, and it’s about how I prepare for games and for series and seasons and whatnot, so we’ve got to stick with that kind of thought process.

If we say it long enough eventually we’re going to reap a harvest. We’re going to get exactly what we’re saying.

You might win some, you might lose some. But you go in, you challenge yourself, you become a better man, a better individual, a better fighter.

Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.

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

Nobody can ever say that being negative ever helped them at all – not in any way.

When a nation is surrounded by weaponized nations, she has to equip herself.

Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.

I don’t fight in chase of an individual. I hear this sometimes where fighters work their whole careers to reach a matchup with a certain individual. I do not think in that way.

Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he’s losing; nobody wants you to quit when you’re ahead.

Basically it starts with four months of training, just basic stretching, kicking and punching. Then you come to the choreography and getting ready to put the dance together.

For me, money is not my definition of success. Inspiring people is a definition of success.

If someone you know makes a bad decision or uses bad judgment, it doesn’t mean you have to allow that to alter your attitude. Why should you allow anyone else’s bad decisions to send you into a tailspin of misery?

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

God wants you to be a winner, not a whiner.

I’m different than most people. When I cross the finish line of a big race, I see that people are ecstatic, but I’m thinking about what I’m going to do tomorrow. It’s as if my journey is everlasting, and there is no finish line.

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

I grew up around lots of men – my father, my brothers, my uncles – so I wasn’t intimidated by them.

Now, you lose something in your life, or you come into a conflict, and there’s gonna come a time that you’re gonna know: There was a reason for that. And at the end of your life, all the things you thought were periods, they turn out to be commas. There was never a full stop in any of it.

Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

When you walk into my classroom, I’m going to give it to you straight, just like in the real world, because that’s the only way to prepare you for the real world.

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.

Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.

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

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Yes, some people say to me you’re too skinny, but never a skinny person says that to me, only people who could lose a few pounds say that.

Every man I meet is in some way my superior.

I say that in the most humble way: I always knew that I could perform with the best of ‚em and I could deliver with the best of ‚em.

I think I am the greatest fighter in any class. I know I can hold two, maybe even three belts.

People tend to play in their comfort zone, so the best things are achieved in a state of surprise, actually.

On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit.

You have to steal a lot. You have to have a criminal mentality to be a film director.

I just feel so much more comfortable and confident every game I play.

I think so many people live their whole life in fear and doubt and shame.

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.

Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.

If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand, before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.

Only the insecure strive for security.

It’s the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.

Your joy comes from how you think, the choices that we make in life.

Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great.

Check your ego at the door. The ego can be the great success inhibitor. It can kill opportunities, and it can kill success.

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

I am growing handsome very fast indeed! I expect I shall be the belle of Amherst when I reach my 17th year. I don’t doubt that I shall have perfect crowds of admirers at that age. Then how I shall delight to make them await my bidding, and with what delight shall I witness their suspense while I make my final decision.

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.

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

Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.

If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

Only those who want everything done for them are bored.

The thing I always say to people is this: ‚If you avoid failure, you also avoid success.‘

Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.

If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.