Would I swap what I have achieved as a cook if I could have been as successful as a footballer? Definitely.

When I’m home, I spend Sunday with my husband. If we’re not cooking, we travel around in our camper, stop at fast-food restaurants, and picnic. We love that stuff that will harden your arteries in a hurry.

And winning is a huge thing for me.

My measure of success is whether I’m fulfilling my mission.

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

We’ve had three big ideas at Amazon that we’ve stuck with for 18 years, and they’re the reason we’re successful: Put the customer first. Invent. And be patient.

All very successful commanders are prima donnas and must be so treated.

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

‚Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.

Go as far as you can see; when you get there you’ll be able to see farther.

If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I’d draw the curtains.

Of course, I do everything for money.

Glory lies in the attempt to reach one’s goal and not in reaching it.

I’m sure that at no point in my life could I ever have shown the kind of focus and discipline and commitment necessary to work a station at elBulli or Le Bernardin. No. That ain’t me.

As a man sow, shall he reap. and I know that talk is cheap. But the heat of the battle is as sweet as the victory.

I myself have been on my own and utterly independent since I graduated. I haven’t belonged to any company or any system. It isn’t easy to live like this in Japan.

There’s something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more we succeed in explaining what we know.

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

To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.

At 17, I went to Stanford University to study engineering. My time was occupied with the required reading and the extracurricular duties of managing the baseball and football teams and earning my way.

Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

If you want to thrive in today’s economy, you must challenge the status quo and get the financial education necessary to succeed.

To be successful, you need results in a row. You can’t win, lose, win, lose.

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

I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.

You can’t score if you’re turning it over. It’s like a punt. If you go out and you punt 12 times, you’re not scoring points. That’s not good. So, when you turn the ball over and throw interceptions, you’re giving the other team more opportunities and your team less opportunities.

Even before Snapchat, you go back into my career from Day One or interview people that knew me for 25 years, they’re going to tell you I’ve been DJ Khaled my whole life.

It isn’t sufficient just to want – you’ve got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

In any profession it gets to be a grind.

Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success.

I’m used to seeing it, but it’s weird having an Academy Award. You usually only see one of them on the TV show when they give them out, so it’s kind of surreal to have one in your house.

In my opinion, rankings are a very fickle measurement of one’s success and it is best to not get carried away by it.

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative.

In a lot of ways, success is much harder than I thought it would be. I figured that you’d get here and then everything would be happily ever after. But, it’s hard work, almost harder once you’re successful because you’ve got to maintain it.

It always seems impossible until it’s done.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

It’s much easier to be successful than it is to be relevant. The tricks won’t keep you relevant. Tricks might keep you popular for a while, but in all honesty, I don’t know how U2 will stay relevant. I know we’ve got a future. I know we can fill stadiums. And yet with every record, I think, ‚Is this it? Are we still relevant?‘

Bayern want a decade of success like Barca. That’s OK if you have the money because it increases the possibility of success. But it’s not guaranteed.

My family didn’t have a lot of money, so I worked my heart out to get my degrees. But the minute I graduated, suddenly everyone was asking me, ‚Well, when are you going to get married and start having kids?‘ And the truth is I had no idea how I would balance the expected role of wife and mother with a challenging career.

My uncle played rugby, and my dad played football, and they used to argue which game was the roughest – and everybody agreed rugby was. It’s a great team sport, and to be successful, every person has to play in the same level.

I’m not trying to take New York by storm. I just want to sneak in there, keep my head down, batten down the hatches and cook.

There’s different kinds of laughs. It’s like a baseball lineup: this guy’s your power hitter, this guy gets on base, this guy works out walks. If everybody does their job, we’re gonna win.

When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.

To win MVP was a dream come true for sure, but there are guys who have done this multiple times.

I always make my dreams into goals.

I’m a workin‘ girl.

So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don’t honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.

And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.

We moved into the back, made it into a little 50s sitting room and started to sell the records. We had an immediate success. For one thing, these Teddy Boys were thrilled to buy the records.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

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

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful, that’s what matters to me.

To be recognized for the hard work my team and I put into ‚Starboy‘ is an honor.

In Dortmund, they say the derby is more important than the championship. You can feel it around the game.

Liverpool is a club with a big, big, big history, and all the clubs in the world have a big history if the present is not too successful. If you have never had success, then nobody knows how it is, but in Liverpool, everybody knows how it was.

When I was playing, there were always lots of teams in contention for the league – Arsenal, Manchester City, Liverpool, Leeds. Every week was a big game and a big battle.

I’m a football fan, a sports fan, a fan of competition.