The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there… and still on your feet.

I have the Midas touch, in the way that when I hook up with a project, I feel, not speaking cocky or conceited, but there’s a confidence I have. I learned that from Muhammad Ali; I used to bodyguard him. He taught me about confidence. So when it comes to any job I work, I’m gonna do it good; I’m going to bring it over the top.

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

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.

When one door is closed, don’t you know, another is open.

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.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

I was raised in a family where vulnerability was barely tolerated: no training wheels on our bicycles, no goggles in the pool, just get it done. And so I grew up not only with discomfort about my own vulnerability, I didn’t care for it in other people either.

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

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.

Don’t let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn’t go with it.

He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

It’s true my father abused me and didn’t love and protect me the way he should have, and at times it seemed no one would ever help me and it would never end. But God always had a plan for my life, and He has redeemed me.

To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.

When I wake up, I expect things to be good. If they’re not, then I try to set about trying to make them as good as I can ‚cause I know I’m gonna have to live that day anyway. So why not try to make the most of it if you can? Some days, they pan out a little better than others, but you still gotta always just try.

It take many a year, mon, and maybe some bloodshed must be, but righteousness someday prevail.

I wouldn’t ever say if you’re having tough times then there must be something wrong with you or your attitude. Life’s a fight. It’s a good fight of faith. I encourage people to stay up, stay hopeful, stay faith-filled.

Didn’t get promoted? Good. More time to get better.

I hope my story inspires everyone out there to keep hustling and chasing their dreams.

I have a message to give to the world, and I shall not be thwarted.

Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.

By indignities men come to dignities.

I like to work and am a focused person.

I don’t mind people hating me, because it pushes me.

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

I had my moments of being humiliated, and then I had moments of doing something humiliating. I’m glad I lived out both roles.

I should be a postage stamp, because that’s the only way I’ll ever get licked. I’m beautiful. I’m fast. I’m so mean I make medicine sick. I can’t possibly be beat.

In my career as a director, there’s always been some point where you get halfway through it, or three-quarters, and you go: ‚What is this thing all about, and why am I telling the story? Does anybody really care about seeing this?‘ At that time you have to say: ‚OK, forget that and just go ahead.‘

It’s not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It’s because we dare not venture that they are difficult.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

I have a deep, deep belief that if I tell you I’m going to crack you with a clean shot to the chin inside one minute of the first round and you will be unconscious, well, then that’s what will happen.

The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.

Genius is patience.

If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it.

If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

People want to tear me down, they were going to knife me anyway.

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

How one life turns out is not dependent on what people do to us or what they don’t do for us.

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

Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate… but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.

This lady is not for turning.

We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.

A good indignation brings out all one’s powers.

People will try to bring you down, but you gotta go up.

Just remember, you can’t climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

A hustler has to deal with danger and risk. It’s part of the game. You cannot control it all, nor would you want to. Chaos, unknown factors are not something to be anxious about.

The reward of suffering is experience.

There are going to be good days and bad days. Bottom line.

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

There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life’s July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.

You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.

I have often been downcast but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary, I treat all the privations as amusing.

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.

Above everything else I’ve done, I’ve always said I’ve had more guts than I’ve got talent.

‚Victory Lap,‘ even the title. It’s the accumulation of trial and error; that’s what I represent; trial and error.

Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer to your goal.

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

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.