Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.

Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.

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

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.

What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.

I am prepared to resort to anything, to submit to anything, for the sake of the commonwealth.

Choose people who lift you up.

I’m always disappointed when people don’t live up to their potential. I know that a number of people look down on themselves and consequently on everybody who looks like them. But that, too, can change.

Without football, my life is worth nothing.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

Marines don’t know how to spell the word ‚defeat‘.

Whether for life or death, do your own work well.

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

I’d be so bored if I wasn’t going out there, knowing that I could still do it. So, I’m going to work hard to be ready to go, and I still plan on playing for a long time.

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts.

This ain’t fun. But you watch me, I’ll get it done.

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

When a person starts to talk about their dreams, it’s as if something bubbles up from within. Their eyes brighten, their face glows, and you can feel the excitement in their words.

I calculate that I took 20,000 punches, but I earned millions and kept a lot of it. I may talk slow, but my mind is OK.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

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

My enthusiasm seems to cause my world to endlessly offer me cooperative, co-creating experiences. I’m willing and I’m eager, and not just about my writing – I feel the same way about staying in shape, enjoying my family, giving a lecture, or whatever it may be.

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.

I defy gravity.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

If you’re doing your best, you won’t have any time to worry about failure.

I’ve always been surrounded by many great people and professors, but my family, especially my mom who was a teacher, was the person who encouraged me to study and pushed me to continue. When we’re young, we don’t understand why our parents bug us so much with school and doing homework, but it’s a blessing to have that support at home.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.

Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.

I always believe that there should come a time when your energy, speed, stamina should combine well with your brains.

We will move forward, we will move upward, and yes, we will move onward.

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

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

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

I am not afraid… I was born to do this.

It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.

Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it… Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.

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.

The men I idolized built their bodies and became somebody – like Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger – and I thought, ‚That can be me.‘ So I started working out. The funny thing is I didn’t realize back then that I was having a defining moment.

I’ll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it’s sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.

If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.

Stay hungry, stay foolish.

When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.

Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They’re just braver five minutes longer.

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

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.

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

When you seek the presence of your creative Spirit and are filled with passion about virtually everything you undertake, you’ll successfully remove the roadblocks from your life and enjoy the active presence of Spirit.

As far as a glass ceiling, I feel that all you can do is give it your absolute best with whatever gifts the universe has given you. And if you make it in some way that other people can recognize, that’s fine. But even if you don’t quote-unquote make it, you’re fine if you’ve given it your whole heart and soul.

Vanity is great motivation, to be fair.

If you try and work out at 4:30 in the afternoon, how many people are going to chip away at that time? Your boss, your job, your work, your family, your other obligations that you might have. At 4:30 in the morning, all those people are asleep, so you can do whatever you want.

I knew early on that I wanted to entertain in some form. And I knew I would work as hard as anyone to do it.

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

Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.

You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

I don’t want to hear the word ‚can’t.‘

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.