WIth football you can have up to 28 guys you consider starters, and if they can pick up the slack when some aren’t playing so well, you don’t have to turn those two game losing streaks into six-game losing streaks.

In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.

I can’t make a song for a particular person or demographic. If I love it, I’m gonna do it. I have to perform it for the rest of my life. A song is like a tattoo – you can never get away from it.

Nothing’s ever easy as long as you go on living.

Courage is being scared to death… and saddling up anyway.

If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.

No one is so brave that he is not disturbed by something unexpected.

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.

I’m sure like everyone else I’m not always the happiest if I don’t do a good job in quali or the race or whatever, so I think beating myself up sometimes makes me work harder.

The worst days are when you feel foggy in the head – chemo-brain they call it. It’s awful because you feel boring. As well as bored. And stupid. And resigned.

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.

And I try to give the best bang for the buck. I love performing more than anything else.

Louis van Gaal is one of the most successful managers in the world.

As an athlete, you’d better laugh at yourself when you slip in the mud.

There is no doubt that some plant food, such as oatmeal, is more economical than meat, and superior to it in regard to both mechanical and mental performance. Such food, moreover, taxes our digestive organs decidedly less, and, in making us more contented and sociable, produces an amount of good difficult to estimate.

‚Mean‘ is a song I wrote about somebody who wrote things that were so mean so many times that it would ruin my day. Then it would ruin the next day. And it would level me so many times, I just felt like I was being hit in the face every time this person would take to their computer.

The world can criticize me, but l can always criticize it back.

I don’t really focus on these things – on what tags are given to me or what people think of me off the field – stuff like that. My main focus is always to do well on the field for the Indian cricket team. When people say good things about me off the field, I am more than happy to accept them.

It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

I can understand how some people might resent me for having the audacity to continue playing music, but it’d take a lot more than that to stop me from doing it. I started Foo Fighters because I didn’t want to retreat.

As long as I stay in training and play well, I don’t see what objection there can be to what I do off the field.

If you have to stand and fight, you train yourself so that you’re able to do it.

If you look at my life, generally, I’ve been put in situations which were difficult and which I conquered.

I am happy and proud to play for my country and my club Mohun Bagan.

Football is a game you cannot play without making mistakes.

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

Lots of young players have triumphed at United, so why can’t it happen to me? I’m not worried I’m young – it’s an incentive to do the best I can.

I’ve heard there are troubles of more than one kind; some come from ahead, and some come from behind. But I’ve brought a big bat. I’m all ready, you see; now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!

People have to go through trials and tribulations to get where they at. Do your thing – continue to rock it – because obviously, God wants you here.

If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn’t be here. I guarantee you that.

Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.

I played characters with villainous aspect. But out-and-out villain? No.

Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me. Every night I had a live audience of 25,000 people to win over. My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining.

At the end of the day, I understand that life has road blocks, and life is like school – you’ll be tested; we gotta pass it.

Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.

My dad was into the 1950s doo-wop era. If you look at those groups, or at James Brown, Jackie Wilson and the Temptations in the 1960s, you’ll see you had to be sharp onstage.

Never give in – never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.

How you played in yesterday’s game is all that counts.

What I admire most about Hillary is that she never buckles under pressure. She never takes the easy way out. And Hillary Clinton has never quit on anything in her life. And when I think about the kind of president that I want for my girls and all our children, that’s what I want.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

I played a little basketball. Some football in junior high.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

A hustler has to deal with danger and risk. It’s part of the game. You cannot control it all, nor would you want to. Chaos, unknown factors are not something to be anxious about.

For more than a decade, I led an organization that put on an elaborate Christmas program each December. It was a big production, with over 250 people participating in more than 20 performances. By the end of the season, everyone who participated was exhausted.

My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961.

Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.

We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.

I do believe in the old saying, ‚What does not kill you makes you stronger.‘ Our experiences, good and bad, make us who we are. By overcoming difficulties, we gain strength and maturity.

What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.

I have, before now, waited for a pen to perform a macro.

We were the first generation to have to deal with the modern stardom of football. Some handled it better than others.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

When the players go home, I can’t tell them what to do, so you need to create an atmosphere of trust. I don’t want to think, ‚What are they doing now? Do I need to call them?‘

I could imagine at a certain age, when I have no vocal cords left, that I would find a young man who could sing my parts for me. But I don’t see why I would stop.

I’m not actually a very keen performer. I like putting shows together. I like putting events together. In fact, everything I do is about the conceptualizing and realization of a piece of work, whether it’s the recording or the performance side.

I like to sing ballads the way Eddie Fisher does and the way Perry Como does. But the way I’m singing now is what makes the money.

I still love football, though, and I think cooking is like football. It’s not a job, it’s a passion. When you become good at it, it’s a dream job and financially you need never to worry. Ever.

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.