I never expect to lose. Even when I’m the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.

Because of my wrestling background, nothing a director can throw at me on a set can faze me.

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

I loved photography and everybody said it was a crazy thing to do because in those days nobody made it into the film business. I mean, unless you were related to somebody there was no way in.

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

I stayed focused, and I never surrendered, and now I’ve been blessed. now I take care of my mother, my father, and my entire whole family.

No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

Anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.

I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

I don’t know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.

I am not a second option person. It is that or nothing. If it is not the way I see it I prefer not to see it.

Not having hope is not an excuse for not doing something.

This lady is not for turning.

Giving up cannot be an option.

Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.

You know, when Michael Jackson does the moonwalk, he’s showing off! When Prince or Hendrix do a guitar solo, it’s confidence! I would hate to be at a show and some nervous wreck is sweating up there and doesn’t feel like he deserves to be there.

One of the things I’ve told men over and over and over and over is if you’re being rejected by all the women that you approach, it’s not the women!

I felt like, for so many years – and I still even feel it – as a girl, you can’t really expect to go on stage and dress like a boy and jump around and scream with the audience and mosh and stuff, and every time that happens, I feel really proud.

The only way round is through.

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.

The secret is not to give up hope. It’s very hard not to because if you’re really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side.

Predicting rain doesn’t count. Building arks does.

I’m gonna be making records anyway, even if I had to sell ‚em out of the trunk of my car. I’m that kind of musician and singer.

What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?

We can take a ‚It was hard to get there.‘ But we ain’t taking no loss. We’re going to win.

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.

Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.

I can’t tell you the number of times I looked down at what was going on on the ground, or I was engaged in a fight somewhere, and I knew within a couple of minutes how I was going to screw up the enemy. And I knew it because I’d done so much reading.

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.

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.

Preparation for a mission is important. A mission is a voluntary act of service to God and humankind. Missionaries support that privilege with their personal savings. Parents, families, friends, and donors to the General Missionary Fund may also assist.

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

Working hard is very important. You’re not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard.

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.

I’m not afraid to look bad on the screen.

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were – to the very last minute – a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

I hate what I look like on TV, and I want to look better, and nothing makes the mothers more jealous.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

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

We record when I have a hole in the schedule. Sometimes night, sometimes afternoon, sometimes morning – we fit it in when we can. I prep for episodes all the time.

One must work and dare if one really wants to live.

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.

Education is the best provision for old age.

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

We come bulletproof in Ireland. We’re reared tough, and we fight.

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

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.

People always say that you can’t please everybody. I think that’s a cop-out. Why not attempt it? ‚Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.

I decided to pursue music, so I dropped out of school and I told my parents I didn’t want any money from them. I got three jobs and I just hit the ground running.

I’m not a centerfold.

Be happy with being you. Love your flaws. Own your quirks. And know that you are just as perfect as anyone else, exactly as you are.

For me, it’s enough that I have the first and last word.

I don’t see that my majority opinions are going to be undone.

Nothing is stopping me from doing what I love to do.

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

I will seize fate by the throat; it shall certainly never wholly overcome me.

Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that’s when something snaps up and bites you.