To all the positions, I just bring the determination to win. Me being an unselfish player, I think that can carry on to my teammates. When you have one of the best players on the court being unselfish, I think that transfers to the other players.

The buck stops here!

Collegiality is crucial to the success of our mission. We could not do the job the Constitution assigns to us if we didn’t – to use one of Justice Antonin Scalia’s favorite expressions – ‚Get over it!‘

I think we’re going to the moon because it’s in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It’s by the nature of his deep inner soul… we’re required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.

One of the roles of the Presidency is to lead a political party. Having a President in office is usually a huge advantage to a party because it gives the party a mouthpiece and an advocate at the highest level.

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

I can tell you this: If I’m ever in a position to call the shots, I’m not going to rush to send somebody else’s kids into a war.

I have always been grateful to Colonel Longley. He proved to me that when people in authority take a stand, good can come out of it.

The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.

Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to trust your team. It’s a lesson I’ve had to relearn quite a few times.

If I can be a leader, I will.

Never, never, never give up.

To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them.

Talking to a player helps, but in our sport the majority of learning happens from watching another player. You pick up things like being punctual, being nice to everyone, making sure you give your 100 per cent even in training.

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

Mostly, my flying has been solo, but the preparation for it wasn’t. Without my husband’s help and encouragement, I could not have attempted what I have. Ours has been a contented and reasonable partnership, he with his solo jobs and I with mine. But always with work and play together, conducted under a satisfactory system of dual control.

It’s time to stop thinking of the Republican Party as an exclusive club where your ideological card is checked at the door, and start thinking about how we can attract more solution-based leaders like Nathan Fletcher and Anthony Adams.

In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power – including strong and principled diplomacy.

My wife and I don’t compete. We know each other’s preferences, and we work to provide those for each other. One will take over when the other is faced with something he or she dislikes. That’s what friends do.

Being second is to be the first of the ones who lose.

A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who’s been dead for 15 years.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Serious sport is war minus the shooting.

I can’t deny that the thought of being governor, the thought of being president, is alluring. And beyond that, it would be an opportunity to make a real impact on people’s lives on a global scale. But there are a lot of other things I want to do first.

Once you get on the playing field it’s not about whether you’re liked or not liked. All that matters is to play at a high level and do whatever it takes to help your team win. That’s what it’s about.

I will never retire unless I have to.

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

Politicians must set their aims for the high ground and according to our various leanings, Democratic, Republican, Independent, we will follow. Politicians must be told if they continue to sink into the mud of obscenity, they will proceed alone.

Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish – too much handling will spoil it.

It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.

Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

A president has an inescapable responsibility to provide direction: What are we trying to achieve? What are we trying to prevent? Why? To do that, he has to both analyze and reflect.

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.

I’ve heard there are troubles of more than one kind; some come from ahead, and some come from behind. But I’ve brought a big bat. I’m all ready, you see; now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!

To me, football is so much about mental toughness, it’s digging deep, it’s doing whatever you need to do to help a team win and that comes in a lot of shapes and forms.

A President cannot always be popular.

If you want to occupy the C-suite or the top one-tenth of 1% in any organization, you have to be obsessively devoted to your career at the expense of everything else. And women look at that, and they think, ‚No.‘

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

I had never been in charge of anything. I’d always worked for someone. I worked for a furniture warehouse. I did masonry. I always had a boss yelling at me. So I’d never been in charge of an organization.

You can sometimes play some really good football and not score.

My goals are so high that I don’t have time to relax in any way, shape or form.

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.

I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

History reminds us that dictators and despots arise during times of severe economic crisis.

In various countries and times, leaders of groups that lagged behind, economically and educationally, have taught their followers to blame all their problems on other people – and to hate those other people.

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R & D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R & D. It’s not about money. It’s about the people you have, how you’re led, and how much you get it.

I know a lot of people say they always believed they could get into F1, but I didn’t quite believe that, certainly not when I was 7 and maybe not until I was 14. It was always so far away.

As a professional athlete a lot is going to be said about you – but I just try to move forward and try to achieve my goals.

Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf.

I’m not the kind of cat that’s going to cut off an ear if I can’t do something.

If my businesses or my investments are not profitable, then I don’t eat. And I like to eat.

But innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we’ve been thinking about a problem.

No foreign policy – no matter how ingenious – has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.

A piece of spaghetti or a military unit can only be led from the front end.

Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn’t give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. That’s why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war.