You know, I’m trying to chase rings, and that’s all I’m about. So that’s where the conversation stops for me.

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last – but eat you he will.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

Basketball is my passion, I love it. But my family and friends mean everything to me. That’s what’s important. I need my phone so I can keep in contact with them at all times.

However my parents – both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.

Who does not desire such a victory by which we shall join places in our Kingdom, so far divided by nature, and for which we shall set up trophies in another conquered world?

I want to go down in the history books with what I’ve achieved.

I’m more than comfortable just sitting back and scoring 21, 22 points or whatever and getting 10, 11 assists whatever the case might be. More than comfortable with that. It’s just a matter of the pieces that you have around you and what you can do to elevate everybody else.

One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve.

In the NBA, you’re never immune to rumors and trade rumors and free agency stuff.

What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.

Success comes to those who have an entire mountain of gold that they continually mine, not those who find one nugget and try to live on it for fifty years.

Dream in a pragmatic way.

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.

It obviously bothers people when Real Madrid win. It makes them jealous. There isn’t a level playing field.

Being self-made means never making an excuse as to why you can’t take steps toward whatever your goal is.

I’m just a kid that defied the odds. I’m just a kid that ignored the doubt. I’m just a kid from a little place in Dublin, Ireland, that went all the way, and I’m going to continue to go all the way.

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

If a guy hits .300 every year, what does he have to look forward to? I always tried to stay around .190, with three or four RBI. And I tried to get them all in September. That way I always had something to talk about during the winter.

I’m not the sort to back away from a fight. I don’t believe in shrinking from anything. It’s not my speed; I’m a guy who meets adversities head on.

You must take the compromise to win, or else nothing. That means: you race or you do not.

If you work hard and play by the rules, this country is truly open to you. You can achieve anything.

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.

I’ve always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.

Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.

When I prepare, I am not messing around. I find the right places, the right people, and the right environment. Iceland is one of those places.

It’s a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can’t stop playing the game the way you’ve always played it.

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.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

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.

‚Rocky‘ and ‚Rocky III‘ were the best.

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.

After the first day of practice, there’s not one guy who’s playing at 100 percent or who feels great. Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day – it just hurts.

Personally yes I want our country to have one league. When it’s going to be one league, which we all are hearing, it has to be abiding by AFC rules.

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.

In England, when an athlete gets to the top, we do our best to destroy him.

I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.

I noticed that when I touched the ball on the field, you could hear this shrill noise in the crowd with all the birds screaming like at a Beatles concert.

I’m proof against that word failure. I’ve seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

The first two games for Churchill, I was so jittery that I didn’t know what to do. I was running more but didn’t know what to do. I’ve no bones accepting the fact that I didn’t know what was happening in the game.

A man who has no office to go, to I don’t care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.

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

The Premier League is one of the most difficult in the world. There’s five, six, or seven clubs that can be the champions. Only one can win, and all the others are disappointed and live in the middle of disaster.

If I said I would knock out Sonny Liston in 1 minute and 49 seconds of the first round, that would hurt the gate.

When you play sports like tennis, you’re alone, and that’s a good school for life, but it’s also a good school for life to bring your best and make those around you better, too – helping others in difficult moments.

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

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.

Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time.

If I wished to do something, even if I couldn’t find anyone who wanted to make the effort with me, I would go out solo climbing. I did find solo climbing very challenging and a little frightening. You knew that you were completely on your own, and you had to overcome all the problems and possible dangers.

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don’t want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.

The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.

I’ve always wanted to live above my means because it inspired me to work harder.

Really, you don’t lose until you stop trying.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

Above anything else, I hate to lose.