Winning, to me, is easy. Winning more is the challenge.

The answer to all writing, to any career for that matter, is love.

I like to use the hard times in the past to motivate me today.

The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.

Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them.

People just don’t understand how obsessed I am with winning.

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

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.

Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

A good indignation brings out all one’s powers.

I wanted to get a job being creative, and I did.

It is no use saying, ‚We are doing our best.‘ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

You have to believe in your process. You have to believe in the things that you are doing to help the team win. I think you have to take the good with the bad.

Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.

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

I’m not sure what you need first – the players believing or others believing in them – but in the end, both have to think it.

Well I think a lot of times we’re putting things off and I’m going to do it later. I’m going to break this bad habit or I’m going to pursue this dream or I’m going to treat my spouse better.

I’ve made my share of mistakes along the way, but if I have changed even one life for the better, I haven’t lived in vain.

People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.

I don’t think you get successful to brag and throw what you have in the world’s face. That’s all private.

The more successful I become, the more I need a man.

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

I had a good time boxing. I enjoyed it – and I may come back.

I didn’t know how to deal with success. If there was a Rock Star 101, I would have liked to take it. It might have helped me.

If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn’t be anything for us to do.

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.

I’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy.

Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.

He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.

I got a signed document from Bullock’s saying that they had such-and-such drawings on consignment. Of course, nobody bought any of them, but otherwise, I was a big success: I had my drawings on sale at Bullock’s!

Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own.

I got a greater purpose. God put something in my heart to get across, and that’s what I’m going to focus on, using my voice as an instrument and doing what needs to be done.

Off with you! You’re a happy fellow, for you’ll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!

A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

Sometimes, if you begin to sing in a halfhearted mood, you can sing yourself up the ladder. Singing will often make the heart rise.

Treat failure as a lesson on how not to approach achieving a goal, and then use that learning to improve your chances of success when you try again. Failure is only the end if you decide to stop.

You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

I wouldn’t ever say if you’re having tough times then there must be something wrong with you or your attitude. Life’s a fight. It’s a good fight of faith. I encourage people to stay up, stay hopeful, stay faith-filled.

I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success… such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.

I think it’s my responsibility, as a person of influence… to sometimes try to do what I can.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.

Richard Burton came from the same town as me, so I thought I’d follow my nose, and follow my luck. I think I’ve been very lucky.

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?

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

All I ever wanted out of my life was to buy my mother a house. By 1995, I have achieved all I wanted materially in life.

I’ve run the Boston Marathon 6 times before. I think the best aspects of the marathon are the beautiful changes of the scenery along the route and the warmth of the people’s support. I feel happier every time I enter this marathon.

I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

I want to let you in on a little secret: I don’t always feel like I’m a success. That’s right. There are plenty of times when I feel like I’ve just totally messed up and failed to connect with the people I’m trying to communicate with.

Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.

What keeps me going is goals.