Dubai will never settle for anything less than first place.

I want Dubai to be a place where everybody from all over the world meets each other, don't think of fighting or hate, just love it, enjoy their sport, and that's it.

There is no Dubai and Abu Dhabi; we are one. Whoever doesn't understand this should do their homework before they start talking. We will be there for each other when we need it.

Opportunities are made, they do not just lie around waiting for someone to grab them.

An easy life does not make men, nor does it build nations. Challenges make men, and it is these men who build nations.

The race for excellence has no finish line.

Try to achieve the impossible and direct your people to ways of achieving it.

There is a wide knowledge gap between us and the developed world in the West and in Asia. Our only choice is to bridge this gap as quickly as possible, because our age is defined by knowledge.

We should always be practical, realistic and optimistic.

Not every rider is a horseman and not every horseman is a knight.

No one in the Emirates is above the law and accountability.

I don't think there's a lonelier feeling than being with someone who has stopped caring.

Imagination is the power of attraction, when you want something you have to imagine it, to attract the thing to you.

I didn't know I'd have to be torn down before I could be built up.

My mom has always told me that beauty fades but inner beauty is forever. There's nothing more beautiful than a woman [who] takes care of [herself].

Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.

Pain is the doorway to wisdom and to truth.

If you win a National Championship, or you win two, people think you have not only seen the Holy Grail, but you've embraced it. Basically, I do what a lot of people do, but I've been able to win.

There are people who are afraid to go to confession, forgetting that they will not encounter a severe judge there, but the immensely merciful Father.

As a piece of rope, when burnt, retains its form, but cannot serve to bind, so is the ego which is burnt by the fire of supreme Knowledge.

Human beings absolutely follow through on who they believe they are