Success is about having, excellence is about being. Success is about having money and fame, but excellence is being the best you can be.

The ones who want to achieve and win championships motivate themselves.

I've been into the habit of freezing white grapes and using them as a snack. Instead of eating peanuts or popcorn or something like that or pretzels, I just eat the white grapes.

You're never a loser until you quit trying.

I don't believe in living in the past. Living in the past is for cowards. If you live in the past, you die in the past.

Effort without talent is a depressing situation... but talent without effort is a tragedy.

If you're not in the parade, you watch the parade. That's life.

If God had wanted man to play soccer, he wouldn't have given us arms.

Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.

Losers quit when they're tired. Winners quit when they've won.

Motivation comes from within each individual. It's a personal thing. It's pride, guts, desire, whatever you want to call it; some people have it in their bellies, and some don't.

My grandfather used to wear a black hat and coat. You are my children. You are my jewels. We old ones invest our future in you.

I'm really good in pain. I snapped my leg in half on stage and played a whole show. But I can't sit there with someone that loves me.

I get to thinking about my life, and it sometimes makes me want to make it interesting.

There's a genius part of you that wants to create. That part of you wants to talk to God. Get out of the way.

It was lucky that Ralph [Fiennes] is someone who understands both film and theater and we were able to understand that scene so well before we took it to the set.

In the parliament of the present every man represents a constituency of the past.

I have come to believe that giving and receiving are really the same. Giving and receiving - not giving and taking

It's near impossible to make a movie in black and white in the system.

Sometimes it’s more noble to tell a small lie than to deliver a painful truth.

Rumor is a pipe Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures.