This whole 'X Factor' thing with people assuming I'm going to be a one-hit wonder - that won't happen with me.

I want to work really hard.

Whenever I have tried to write for other people, that's when my writing has failed, when nobody wanted to read it or buy it. But it's only when I've been able to write a story that makes me excited,...

We go by the lighthouse; paddle out. After we got out, we paddled way down to get the biggest peak.

I'm working to be the best - the very best. There are a lot of people in this industry, and I'm trying to be the best. I'm working to affect history in a positive way.

It's sad that we have to sell our training gear, things we get in fights that are a good memory of what we had there, but we'll get new stuff later.

You can magically alter your life if you believe hard enough and then take actual physical action in the world outside your brain to make it happen.

Early on, when I first started acting professionally, it was really important for me to get my parents on board, because they were so against it.

The most important thing is that the player is good enough and has a desire for the national team.

I have had so much public support.

I'm making little changes in my life to take care of myself, like putting in a mile or two on my treadmill every day.

I just want to do some movies that my children and my grandchildren would be proud of. That's my yardstick.

An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.

I am a fighter; I will keep fighting and will never give up.

I'm very learning-disabled, and I think it drove me to what I'm doing.

Only losers make decisions when things are bad. The time to rejig your life is the time when it's seemingly smooth.

I think that has to do with my awareness that in a sense we all have a certain measure of responsibility to those who have made it possible for us to take advantage of the opportunities.

I was never the best athlete, but I knew how to be coached and I knew how to work hard at it.

I think change is always good.

I'm locked in no matter what I'm doing. If it's a competition, I'm locked in.

My job is not to analyze my career. But I am proud of the amount of work I've done and the amount of commitment I've given to it. That makes me proud.

If my goal is to become a movie star, me working at a pizza shop won't help me. I have to make the stars align.

I'm a naturally lazy person, and I live for a challenge.

Everyone tells me to play as long as you can. Sometimes, it goes in one ear and out the other.

Men stop trying after a while and get lazy.

The Champions League is a big ambition, and all the footballers want to play in it; it is a very important competition.

It's not like I'm in there and not trying to finish fights. I'm hitting these guys as hard as I can in there. I'm trying to do what I have to do in there to get it done without being one of these guys...

I don't personally feel that I've lost my fire.

Each driver has some particular style, and you compete against each driver in each race a little bit differently.

I have found in work that you only get back what you put into it, but it does come back gift-wrapped.