We were the first generation to have to deal with the modern stardom of football. Some handled it better than others.

If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.

We all knew this. We all knew that it would take more time than any of us want to dig ourselves out of this hole created by this economic crisis.

The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.

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.

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

I want to be part of that long list who have achieved great things with McLaren, won races and championships.

If a person is successful, we imagine they are probably also ethical, conscientious and deserving of their good fortune. This obscures the fact that many people who get ahead have done so by doing less than moral actions, which they cleverly disguise from view.

If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.

You always want to quit while you are ahead. You don’t want to be like a fighter who stays too long in the ring until you’re not performing at your best.

Ironically, parenting is a shame and judgment minefield precisely because most of us are wading through uncertainty and self-doubt when it comes to raising our children.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

We was able to become real successful in the mixtape space.

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.

It’s lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.

Even as you make progress, you need the discipline to keep from backtracking and sabotaging the success as it’s happening.

In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.

I think sometimes celebrities get so big, they’re not reachable.

At the end of the day, we started playing football because we loved it.

We all know we have a finite period of time. I just feel if I’m going to be alive, I want to be challenged – to be as immortal as possible. The path to that isn’t an easy way, but it’s a rewarding way.

Power is the measure of the degree of control you have over circumstances in your life and the actions of the people around you. It is a skill that is developed by a deep understanding of human nature, of what truly motivates people, and of the manipulations necessary for advancement and protection.

Let the path be open to talent.

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own.

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

My understanding of racial discrimination as a child was highly distorted because the most prominent man in Archery was an African-American bishop. When he came home from up north, where he was in charge of A.M.E. churches in five states, it was front-page news. He was the most successful man in my life.

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

I am not a dreamer. I am a football romantic.

I’ve done everything I wanted to do, even if I have had to pay a very high price – which has been the case most of the time.

I myself have been on my own and utterly independent since I graduated. I haven’t belonged to any company or any system. It isn’t easy to live like this in Japan.

I have to admit I’ve found myself doing the same things that a lot of other rock stars do or are forced to do. Which is not being able to respond to mail, not being able to keep up on current music, and I’m pretty much locked away a lot. The outside world is pretty foreign to me.

Everyone loves a win in India. No one wants to lose a match. It is the cricketer who absorbs all the pressure.

The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off – we do not have to stand for this.

I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Riches don’t make a man rich, they only make him busier.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.

February is always a bad month for TV sports. Football is gone, basketball is plodding along in the annual midseason doldrums, and baseball is not even mentioned.

I don’t think about that. I wasn’t a kid growing up saying one day I’ll get an Oscar and make a speech. That wasn’t on my mind. So what I do is the best work I can do.

I’m always asked, ‚What’s the secret to success?‘ But there are no secrets. Be humble. Be hungry. And always be the hardest worker in the room.

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.

If you sit there and have that mentality of ‚triple down on what you’re good at,‘ you’re never going to grow. You’re always going to stay the same.

So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don’t honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.

If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you’ll be amazed at the results.

Life is hard. After all, it kills you.

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

London is a modern Babylon.

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

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

Perseverance is also key to success in any endeavor, but without perseverance in combat, there can be no victory.

We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow’s nest of that ship.

How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.

Getting rich is about fun. It’s a game, and you have to treat it that way.

To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.

The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.

I have plenty of money, unlike other Hollywood celebrities or athletes that have not invested well.