Whatever the hell happens, say, ‘This is what I need.’

No one in the world was ever you before, with your particular gifts and abilities and possibilities.

Tactics are important, but they should never overshadow the players’ natural abilities.

Usually, a Brazilian doesn’t like to work hard in training, doesn’t like to stay focused. I trained a lot of Brazilian players. I had a problem with Ronaldo at Milan. It was not easy to get him fit! Ronaldo was 100kg but was the quickest in the 10 metre test!

Comparing Isco to Zidane isn’t ridiculous. He is very close to Zidane in terms of ability, they have a lot of similarities. Zidane is obviously in a better position to judge, and he said Isco isn’t there yet but could come close in the future.

I’m not interested in what the critics have to say. I’m interested in making my players believe in themselves.

I would never close the door on any job because I like to work, I like football.

Winning is the consequence of a relentless belief in your abilities.

A good team has to be united, and above all, focused.

Maybe the key aspect of imposing fear to the opposition is to make them understand that we have no fear.

I don’t think anyone has the right to intrude in your life, but they do. I would like people to separate the actress and the woman.

Never again! I can see no reason for marriage – ever at all. I’ve had it. Three times is enough.

It is dark now. The snow is deep blue and the ocean nearly black. It is time for some music.

A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless.

May we agree that private life is irrelevant? Multiple, mixed, ambiguous at best – out of it we try to fashion the crystal clear, the singular, the absolute, and that is what is relevant; that is what matters.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the ability to act despite it.

The mountain doesn’t care how tough you are. It’s about how tough you are to keep going when the mountain throws everything at you.

To the questioning glance of love, as it flashes out and then conceals itself, speech has no reply; the smile, the kiss, the sigh answer.

He who would love much has also much to suffer.

Orientals, and the Malays in particular, are a sensitive people: delicacy of sentiment is predominant with them.

While a people preserves its language; it preserves the marks of liberty.

I’m past my wooing days now. See, I am an honest person. If I like a girl, I will go and tell her.

When you’re pushed, killing is as easy as breathing.

It would be great to be able to pass on to someone all of the successes, the failures, and the knowledge that one has had. To help someone, avoid all the fire, pain and anxiety would be wonderful.

I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.

Yes, gay marriage is about symbolically blessing a relationship, but the larger issue is about transmitting a fundamental message about equality. Gay people should have equality in law everywhere.

The sixth Harry Potter film – I don’t like my performance in that film at all.

There’s a lot of work that needs to be done, and there’s a difference between talking the talk and walking the walk.

A friend often says I’m an old man in a young man’s husk. I like that. I am old-fashioned in some ways.

Personally, I prefer the dark side.

Don’t try too hard to be something you’re not.

Courage isn’t the absence of fear; it’s the ability to move forward despite it.

I am a foodie, but my antennas are always up regarding the healthy and nutritional values of food.

It’s not about being perfect; it’s about being real.

Your attitude determines your altitude; stay positive and believe in your abilities.

Resilience is the key to success; never give up, even when the odds are against you.

The best way to approach a game is to play with intensity, to play with enthusiasm, and to play with belief in your abilities.

I’m always chasing something new.

Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.

Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.

In America most everybody who’s Italian is half Italian. Except me. I’m all Italian. I’m mostly Sicilian, and I have a little bit of Neapolitan in me. You get your full dose with me.

I don’t like to be called a legend. I think that’s overrated.

Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don’t sum up a man’s life in one moment.

Resilience in cricket is the ability to bounce back after failures.

I think the word respect is underrated.

The most important thing a leader can do is listen.

I get angry at a principle, not a person.

It’s the sense of duty that keeps you going sometimes when things get very, very rough. Somebody’s got to do it. And if you don’t, who will?

We are all searching for something, but often we don’t know what it is.

One must look for one thing only, to find many.

You are not your circumstances. You are your possibilities.

The trouble with a movie is that it’s old before it’s released. It’s no accident that it comes in a can.

If I had only one film in the world to save, it would be ‘Grand Illusion.

I don’t like television when it gets near to photographed plays.

My bat speaks the language of runs, loud and clear.

My shot selection has to be good to score big runs.

Sehwag is Sehwag. I have my own style of playing and I have never tried to copy anyone else.

I don’t want to be liked. I want to be respected.

I don’t care about revenues.

Your customer is the teacher. The competitor is the research center.

A good boss is better than a good company.

The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.

Nobody, man or woman, has ever wrecked a good marriage.

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

My favorite song? ‘Amazing Grace.’ Anybody singing it. But the best it’ll ever be done is by the Scottish National Pipe band and their National Orchestra. It’ll bring tears to your eyes.

Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost enchanted after all.

Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.

Look back, and smile on perils past.

For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.

O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!

It’s not who you are that holds you back, it’s who you think you are not.

Every day is new. It’s just a new day. I look at six hours at a time.

Sourav’s greatest asset is his ability to communicate. He is a naturally very confident person. He encourages his team, is a great motivator and a born captain. He is not the media’s blue eyed boy because he is a very straightforward person, who never minces his words, instead he talks in a no nonsense manner to the press. He shares an extremely healthy rapport with his teammates. His leadership skills are also vouched for by the youngsters in the team. He has phenomenal brand value. He’s the new-age Indian, an aggressive go-getter, full of self-belief, determination.

I have always believed in my abilities, and I think that is something that has helped me achieve success in the game.

A hug is like a boomerang – you get it back right away.

We can exterminate Ku Kluxism better by recognizing their honesty and teaching them that they are wrong.

The Old Testament gave us the law; the New Testament reveals the love upon which the law rests.

I didn’t come here and I ain’t leavin’.

People may doubt your abilities, but never doubt your own worth.

Every run scored against Pakistan is worth its weight in gold.

Scoring a century in a World Cup final, that’s the stuff dreams are made of.

Every headline is a mini-mystery.

If you can’t handle the heat, stay out of the kitchen.

The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother – and the public.

Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.

I don’t have to be working on an album to record a song.

Strength comes from within. We all have the ability to tap into our inner power and overcome any obstacle.

My mother would beat me so bad, I wouldn’t be able to sit down. And I would never snitch.

Anything that’s not positive, I don’t have the energy to focus on it. Anything that’s not going in the right direction, I don’t have the time or the energy.

I am who I am, you can’t change me.

I believe in the power of love, forgiveness, and redemption. We all have the ability to change and grow.

Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor.

Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

Work on one thing at a time until finished.

If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.

The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love.

Whether I am performing for an elite crowd or a crowd of 20,000 people – the moment someone asks for ‘Agneepath,’ and I respond ‘Agneepath’ chahiye?’ the noise in the crowd, shows that this song has become huge.

I only watch National Geographic Channel, and also I have the app on my phone. Im into astronomy and love to learn about new facts.

My dad has a lot of foresight and decided that I would not do any shows in Mumbai till I became a singer and got to sing my own songs. He knew that if I started earning money from shows, I would not have the time and aggression to rough it out to become a singer.

When I started, I faced a lot of hardships. People used to call me a Rafi clone because I used to sing my favourite singer’s songs. Then ‘Sa Re Ga Ma Pa’ happened. It gave me a good break.

Love is trembling happiness.

Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.

Behind the veil of each night, there is a smilling dawn.

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

We are all like the bright moon, we still have our darker side.

Implores the passing tribute of a sigh.

I shall be but a shrimp of an author.

The paths of glory lead but to the grave.

Nothing beautiful can be summarized.

If the state is strong, it crushes us. If it is weak, we perish.

NASA, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Where else but in Texas would men set up to administer space?

My job as a filmmaker is to create a world that’s believable enough for the audience to get lost in.

Go home, pick up your video camera, and make a film.

Pick up a camera. Shoot something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your friends and your sister star in it. Put your name on it as director. Now you’re a director. Everything after that you’re just negotiating your budget and your fee.

I am thankful to all those who said no. It’s because of them, I did it myself.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

The enemy is always trying to catch you off guard.

You need a clear sense of purpose in everything you do.

Five days or five months, but it certainly isn’t going to last longer.

Sometimes the best solution is not the one that’s immediately obvious.

It is easier to get into something than to get out of it.

You can’t separate what’s personal from what’s public in writing.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the ability to overcome it.

In those days, the early 1980s, TV and film were interchangeable.

No one but a fool is always right.

I enjoy the creative process, but I like that it doesn’t define who I am.

There were symptoms that I saw, and though I went to many doctors and had many tests, no one diagnosed MS.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

The real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrow and double our joys.

If you do the best and the most you can today, don’t worry about tomorrow.

Your best asset is your earning ability. Your best investment is in yourself.

Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.

No matter how good you get you can always get better, and that’s the exciting part.

There’s always stuff to work on. You’re never there.

At school I used to avoid dance lessons. They were the worst.

Plastic surgery and breast implants are fine for people who want that, if it makes them feel better about who they are. But, it makes these people, actors especially, fantasy figures for a fantasy world. Acting is about being real being honest.

I’m crazy and I don’t pretend to be anything else.

We found love in a hopeless place.

The artist is not a mere copyist of nature; they are a creator of new worlds.

Art is the closest thing to immortality.

I’ll buy a bottle for anyone who can tell me what makes a picture beautiful!

I am not a colorist, I am a draughtsman.

Women can never forgive me; they hate me, they feel that I am disarming them. I show them without their coquetry.

One does not marry art. One ravishes it.

We were created to look at one another, weren’t we?

People call me the painter of dancing girls. It has never occurred to them that my chief interest in dancers lies in rendering movement and painting pretty clothes.

If I could have had my own way, I would have confined myself to black and white.

Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do.

This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble.

Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.

I’m just mad for San Francisco. It is like London and Paris stacked on top of each other.

Never think that success is down to your own performance alone. If you start listening only to yourself you take the first step back towards the bottom. The flowers of victory belong in many vases.

Somehow I have managed to delay looking old. In reality I have good genes.

I’m Michael Schumacher. I don’t need to test my driving ability.

To me, the concept of distance is not important. Distance doesn’t exist, in fact, and neither does time. Vibrations from love or music can be felt everywhere, at all times.

If you have too many quotes from other people in your head, you can’t create. You have to keep your head empty. That’s why I am constantly enjoying the sky, the park, the walk.

I find that Americans completely lack sensibility and good taste. They are boring, and they all have faces like unbaked rolls.

I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.

I have always believed in myself and my abilities, and I think that’s important in cricket.

I’m much healthier now.

I love being alone, but I don’t want to be alone all the time.

I was hit by a car once on my bike, but I still rode home.

I don’t think your ability to fight has anything to do with how big you are. It’s to do with how much anger is in you.

I’m not frightened of appearing vulnerable.

I told ya I was trouble. You know that I’m no good.

Love is not a transaction; it’s a connection.

The beauty of love lies in its imperfections.

Love is not finding someone to live with; it’s finding someone you can’t live without.

I’m not making films just to be bold.

The harder you train, the easier the game becomes.

He’s the type of bloke you would want to have on your side. When you see an Indian side with Ganguly in the line-up, you know it’s game on. You don’t have to like or dislike him. You have to respect him.

The minute you hesitate you are in trouble.