It doesn't matter how tall you are if you have heart and you're a competitor.

I always take things step by step and match by match.

I'm motivated by fear of failure. It's a personal mission to say to all those people from years ago, 'Look, I'm seriously not a failure.'

What I love about Indiana Jones is he always bites off slightly more than he can chew. The guy he's fighting is always slightly tougher than he is, but he just refuses to give up. And that's what...

Attention to any subject will in a short time render it attractive, be it ever so disagreeable and tedious at first.

I'd like to stay in Chicago, but if they don't want me, somebody will.

People told me I made the game look easy and I didn't always look like I was trying my best, but I always was.

The simple truth is that in order to become good, you have to be obsessed. You have to put in an awful lot of time and hard work and couple that with desire and unflagging perseverance.

Nobody travels on the road to success without a puncture or two.

My dad was very successful running midgets in Texas. Then, his two drivers ran into some bad luck. People started saying that Daddy had lost his touch. That it was the cars and not the drivers. I...

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

You don't have to be a brain surgeon to be a valuable person. You become valuable because of the knowledge that you have. And that doesn't mean you won't fail sometimes. The important thing is to keep...

My three Ps: passion, patience, perseverance. You have to do this if you've got to be a filmmaker.

With the proper motivation, you can do anything. I was just a poor kid that ate pork and beans out of a can and apple sauce. I went from rags to riches. But it does take a lot of determination, inner...

I just think people have a lot of fiction. But, you know, I mean, the real story of Facebook is just that we've worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty...

I once asked Ozzy Osbourne, truly one of my favorite people in the world, if he was cool with singing Black Sabbath songs year after year, whether he was performing with Black Sabbath or out on a solo...

Set your compass to beauty, humor, and grief; stay the course no matter what, and I'll support you with everything I've got.

I just hope I can get another personal best. If I can do that, I'll be satisfied.

I wish the music business was a much easier thing, but you know what? Nothing easy is worth anything. So it is what it is. There comes a time when things can work out and everybody can be happy. And...

That is why we climb. We climb to reach safety. We climb to reach hope.

There is no balking genius. Only death can silence it or hinder.

It is hard to wait and press and pray and hear no voice but stay till God answers.

We must dare and dare again and go on daring.

It's the plugging away that will win you the day So don't be a piker old pard! Just draw on your grit it's so easy to quit - It's the keeping your chin up that's hard.

If at first you don't succeed you're running about average.

We can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough. ... What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself in the face of difficulties.

To be somebody you must last.

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

He only is exempt from failures who makes no effort.

The best way out of a problem is through it.