I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‚Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.‘

When you have box-office results, Hollywood treats you different. Hollywood stands up. Once you get to the point where Hollywood sees that you create results, then the demand for you becomes higher.

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

In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.

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

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

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

Training and resting takes up most of my time.

Success is the child of audacity.

You see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is very clear.

To not follow your passion in life is a recipe for failure and unhappiness.

When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, ‚Why god? Why me?‘ and the thundering voice of God answered, ‚There’s just something about you that pisses me off.‘

If at first you don’t succeed, then skydiving definitely isn’t for you.

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

Whenever you give up something, you must replace it with something.

To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him.

Just do some kind of workout. Doesn’t matter if it’s going for a walk around the block, going for a jog, doing some calisthenics, lifting weights, going to a pool and swimming – you name it. But do something that gets your blood flowing and gets your mind in the game.

I believe God, Jesus, died that we not just go to Heaven but that we excel in this life. I never think you make money your goal… God wants you to excel. Just keep Him in first place, and God will open up doors you never dreamed of.

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

The thing I always say to people is this: ‚If you avoid failure, you also avoid success.‘

Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.

I’ve always strived to be successful, not famous.

You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I’ll rise.

Building a mission and building a business go hand in hand. The primary thing that excites me is the mission. But we have always had a healthy understanding that we need to do both.

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.

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

Now, as a nation, we don’t promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That’s an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

Do I have chocolate chip cookies? Yes, I do. Do I have mint chocolate chip milkshakes? Yes, I do. I love them. They are fantastic. But when I have them, they’re worth it. I earned them. I did something. I worked out super hard. I stayed clean on food.

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.

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

It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what’s left?

I’ve been blessed to be somebody that’s been climbing that success mountain top for years of hard work, you know, but now it’s all connecting. And now, the whole world is watching, you know what I’m saying, and it feels good ‚cause it’s good energy. This is all positive vibes, and good vibes and good energy, so it feels incredible.

There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

I am not afraid of saying something and going and pursuing it. That’s it. I see it in my mind. I say it out loud. I go and do it.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

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

You can be passionate about anything.

If you want to conquer fear, don’t sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

Put it this way: If I asked, ‚How’s business?‘ and you say, ‚Boomin‘ or ‚Amazing,‘ I already know the answer.

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

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

If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.

What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

I don’t lose any sleep at night over the potential for failure. I cannot even spell the word.

Now we’re in the midst of not just advocating for change, not just calling for change – we’re doing the grinding, sometimes frustrating work of delivering change – inch by inch, day by day.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

I have to keep improving myself and challenging myself.

Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.

The colonel replied that he didn’t care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

I never got into training to be an All-Ireland boxing champ or to win a belt. At the start, I just got into it to learn how to defend myself when I got into situations.

Hope is favorable and confident expectation; it’s an expectant attitude that something good is going to happen and things will work out, no matter what situation we’re facing.

When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don’t throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.

I’m not a good storm-outer… because I forget stuff.

When I started my last business, I didn’t receive a paycheck for 13 months. The average person can’t handle that pressure.