We’re going to have to work. We’re going to have to play well. Nothing will be given to us.

To all the positions, I just bring the determination to win. Me being an unselfish player, I think that can carry on to my teammates. When you have one of the best players on the court being unselfish, I think that transfers to the other players.

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

I just have an enthusiasm for life.

The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses – behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

Defeat doesn’t finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he’s defeated. He’s finished when he quits.

The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?

You’ve really got to start hitting the books because it’s no joke out here.

‚They‘ is… stay away from them, please. There is so many different definitions of ‚they.‘ You might have a personal ‚they.‘ They against you; they want you broken and miserable. They don’t like winners; they don’t like people who’s blessed. So everybody’s got a different ‚they.‘

If I can be a leader, I will.

A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.

Talent without working hard is nothing.

If you are full of motivation as a player, if you are full of concentration, I am open arms.

In many ways, September feels like the busiest time of the year: The kids go back to school, work piles up after the summer’s dog days, and Thanksgiving is suddenly upon us.

So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.

I’m interested in what motivates individuals to participate in atrocious acts to support their ideological identification.

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

I grew up in a rural area called Vega Baja and I’m the first of so many talented people in this area to make it out. I take great pride to represent where I come from and I am able to show my fans, and everyone who listens and watches me, that anything is possible.

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

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.

I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words.

Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn’t be done.

In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance… you thrive on that.

Anything I do, I want to do it well.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

From infancy, I have relied on the fiercely sweet spirits of black men; and this is abundantly clear in my work.

I’m always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I’m going to get up in the morning.

Life’s a fight. It’s a good fight of faith.

When you are organizing a group of people, the first thing that we do is we talk about the history of what other people have been able to accomplish – people that look like them, workers like them, ordinary people, working people – and we give them the list: these are people like yourself; this is what they were able to do in their community.

He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

To keep the business going, you gotta keep it boomin‘.

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

Loving others always costs us something and requires effort. And you have to decide to do it on purpose. You can’t wait for a feeling to motivate you.

To make headway, improve your head.

It’s a common misconception that money is every entrepreneur’s metric for success. It’s not, and nor should it be.

Ambition has become a dirty word, and I believe it is a great evolutionary force for the positive. If people fail or go astray in their ambition I can live with it but not with people lowering their expectations, wasting time, slacking off and glorifying failure and stupidity.

Where the mind goes, the man follows.

There are millions of Americans outside Washington who are tired of stale political arguments and are moving this country forward. They believe, and I believe, that here in America, our success should depend not on accident of birth, but the strength of our work ethic and the scope of our dreams.

I fear that many a man’s good resolutions only need the ordinary fire of daily life to make them melt away. So, too, with fine professions and the boastings of perfection which abound in this age of shams.

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it’s more dangerous to lose than to win.

Listen; there’s a hell of a good universe next door: let’s go.

The real story of Facebook is just that we’ve worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.

When a team takes ownership of its problems, the problem gets solved. It is true on the battlefield, it is true in business, and it is true in life.

There is a soak-the-rich attitude in the air, a feeling that if you have a lot of money you must have got it by some ghastly means. I can quite happily say there was never any family money. All the money we got was mine, just from writing books.

All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me… You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

It doesn’t matter who you are – if you dream big and if you work really hard, you can achieve unimaginable results, and that’s really good for the nation.

In order to become prosperous, a person must initially work very hard, so he or she has to sacrifice a lot of leisure time.

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

Whatever that means, however you got on that mountain, why not try to climb it? And do it in your own way.

The greatest story of all is Colonel Sanders. He didn’t start until he was sixty-six on a freeway bypass for his chicken shop. Anything is possible!

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.

Whatever you do, do with all your might.

No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.