It’s rule number one, really – beating your teammate.

It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

Every driver is different, so I just hope whatever I do is going to be good enough, because it’s not that I just want to be with McLaren. I want to win with McLaren.

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can’t be done.

Mission presidents hold keys of responsibility for the welfare, safety, and success of their missionaries.

I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day. And then I want you to act.

My biggest competitor was my mum. I used to try to beat her at Chinese chequers, chess, carrom, volleyball, badminton, football, wrestling.

I bought a company in the mid-’90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I’ve made lots of dumb decisions. That’s part of the game.

The important thing is that your teammates have to know you’re pulling for them and you really want them to be successful.

The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Dream and you shall become.

People’s blessings give you the power to work tirelessly. The only thing required is commitment.

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.

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.

It’s not essential for me to have a big debut week; it’s not essential for me to have big radio records.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

What we achieve individually is important but it’s never ever more than the team does.

People think hard sparring will get you sharp. And you do get sharp in the gym. But anytime I’ve trained that way, I’ve actually been a little bit flatter in the fight. And the knockout shot hasn’t come. It’s almost because my training has been too hard.

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

If you’re a quarterback, you want everything on your shoulders. You want to be the one to make the decisions.

The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

Running taught me valuable lessons. In cross-country competition, training counted more than intrinsic ability, and I could compensate for a lack of natural aptitude with diligence and discipline. I applied this in everything I did.

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.

Hollywood has a way of making everything seem like an overnight success.

Do all you can to make your dreams come true.

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.

We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.

As a kid, even I knew everything about my favourite cricketers. I used to know everything possible. Now I see kids knowing about me. It feels good.

Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun.

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he’s losing; nobody wants you to quit when you’re ahead.

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

To win a national championship, you’ve got to be a little lucky.

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.

Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.

Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.

God wants to use you to make other people happy! And the happier you make others, the happier you will be because you reap what you sow.

Be not simply good – be good for something.

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes,‘ he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. ‚Shake it off. Stop complainin‘. Stop grumblin‘. Stop cryin‘. We are going to press on. We have work to do.

All of us have been trained by education and environment to seek personal gain and security and to fight for ourselves. Though we cover it over with pleasant phrases, we have been educated for various professions within a system which is based on exploitation and acquisitive fear.

You cannot let where you are today cause you to get stuck. I’m going to be my best right now. That’s what faith is all about.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That’s what capitalism is all about.

Don’t find fault, find a remedy.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

I use my celebrity status to inspire someone, to give them hope.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.

We have a very open culture at the company, where we foster a lot of interaction between not just me and people but between everyone else. It’s an open floor plan. People have these desks where no one really has an office. I mean, I have a room where I meet with people. But it has all glass, so everyone can see into it and see what’s going on.