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

Cricket has given me everything. If I'm anything today, it is because of the game... where I have given blood, sweat, and tears.

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

Height doesn't matter. You see guys like Tyrod Taylor, Brees, Russell Wilson: they've proven that it doesn't matter.

It's a tough sport, and I've been at it a long time.

So long as I keep performing week in, week out for Everton, I will have the chance to stay England number one.

There's an idea of the Plains as the middle of nowhere, something to be contemptuous of. But it's really a heroic place.

I think being an actress is more how to cope with the fact that you can't do anything else than to express a talent. It's a way of being untalented for anything.

I was studying pre-med at UCLA when I decided show business was for me, and the best way to make it was in music. I had just one problem. I was tone deaf.

I don't want to retire - I love the game and have a lot of respect and passion for the game.

You have to lift your head up out of the mud and just do it.

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 hate being safe. There's a lot of easy rides and boring films out there, but I've stuck to my guns. It's not an easy path.

Part of creating is understanding that there is always more to do; nothing is ever completely finished.

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...

You aren't going to find anybody that's going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance.

Most players who've been around any length of time think of training camp as a time of hard work, frustration and monotony. But I can honestly say I look forward to it.

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 Ballon d'Or? In the end, I dedicate myself, and if it arrives, it will arrive.

It's just about getting the reps and staying with it and just being confident in my moves and being patient.

I always saw myself as a stage actress, and that was the reason I wanted to act, but very slowly, I've changed.

But for me to have the opportunity to stand in front of a bunch of executives and present myself, I had to hustle in my own way. I can't tell you how frustrating it was that they didn't get that. No...

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.

In any profession it gets to be a grind.

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...