“Three very important points to keep growing. Great team effort.”

My family always gave me love and accompanied me in each of my challenges.

My ambition is always to get better and better.

Sometimes you have to accept you can’t win all the time.

It is the time to be responsible and stay at home, it is also perfect to enjoy that time with your loved ones that you cannot always have.

You can overcome anything, if and only if you love something enough.

I love spending time with my children, it’s what makes me happiest!

There’s nothing more satisfying than seeing a happy and smiling child.

Together, we will continue to support the fight against this cruel disease as cancer through elements as important as prevention and research.

It was a real honour to receive the Laureus Sportsman of the Year award.

There are more important things in life than winning or losing a game.

Something deep in my character allows me to take the hits and get on with trying to win.

Plastic pollution in the ocean is reaching very high levels and only together can we fight to stop this.

A child’s smile is worth more than all the money in the world.

Say more with your feet than you ever could with words.

It is very important that adults talk to children about what is happening in a way that they can understand, using simple and age-appropriate language.

The only way to achieve success is by fighting together.

Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.

I started Transcendental Meditation in 1973 and have not missed a single meditation ever since. Twice a day, every day. It has given me effortless access to unlimited reserves of energy, creativity and happiness deep within.

The artist cannot look to others to validate his efforts or his calling. If you don’t believe me, ask Van Gogh, who produced masterpiece after masterpiece and never found a buyer in his whole life.

It doesn’t take any talent to play hard.

The world, the future, is now within you as your past, as experience, skill in technique, and the rich, everlasting mystery is found to be childish you that, at the time, you made no effort to possess.

Efforts to preserve all industries will lower the national standard of living.

I create easily and effortlessly when I let my thoughts come from the loving space of my own heart.

Good books are as friends, willing to give to us if we are willing to make a little effort.