I loved everything about show business, meeting the stars, the whole ambiance. I was living every young kid's dream. I was told a pop singer's life was three years, but I was still making money seven...

There is always going to be another game and another day.

Fourth is the worst position to finish. You just missed the podium.

I enjoy being pushed to the limit. Sometimes you feel like you are about to break mentally, but that's what I enjoy.

I thought about running a marathon a long time ago, but I'm just not a runner.

The fastest way to get me to go out and do something is to tell me no way I can do it.

I've always been hungry, but when people ask what drives you - 'How do you stay so driven throughout this whole thing?' - you just don't stop. It's every single day. The people that know me and the...

I can tell you as a fact that if you'd asked anyone in Hollywood one year before 'Pirates of the Caribbean' had come out, they'd have told you the pirate movie was a dead genre. And it's not that it's...

He who goes step by step always finds himself level with a step.

I will give my heart in every match and in every situation. I can promise that. I'm going to give 100 per cent every day.

I was going to school; I was working - at one point, I had two jobs - and I was still trying to train and fight.

We've had to handle defeat many times, and you can't draw any conclusions.

I think there's so many actors out there that we see and we know as one thing but are capable of so much more.

You can't get tired in the studio. It's really tough. But you just gotta keep on going.

Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.

Writing is not a genteel profession; it’s quite nasty and tough and kind of dirty.

When I was a boy, I was really thin, small, long-haired. I always looked young. People thought, 'He can't play football.' I used that to my advantage.

I think I made my first short fiction sale in 2005. I had been writing unsuccessfully before that.

You take yourself to a place where you've got absolutely nothing left and then you find out you have to push yourself one more step. That's a tough place to be in.

That's what makes me keep playing every day is the fact that I'm not quite there, you know. There's always more for me to be able to do.

I am never the favourite, but I live for that.

I've done plenty of things which haven't been very good. Stuff that's not worked or lasted more than one series.

Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.

I just don't think you can make records easily and have them be great. It's a process. You've got to get really lucky all the time, or you've got to work like mad.

What was most important to me at the Olympics was going out there and performing my best. When I messed up the first jump combination, which was my big move, it hit me that I messed up the program of...

It takes me forever to actually finish something like a ten-page essay. But, when I do, I usually love what they are. It's a complicated relationship.

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.