“Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed – there’s so little competition.”

People who are able to do their own thinking should not allow others to do it for them.

Meanness is more in half-doing than in omitting acts of generosity.

To make mistakes is human, but to profit from them is divine.

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

If your religion does not change you, then you had better change your religion.

Success consists in the climb.

Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

Impossible things are simply those which so far have never been done.

True life lies in laughter, love and work.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Politicians regard the public as a cow to be milked.

Lawyers are men whom we hire to protect us from lawyers.

Academic education is the act of memorizing things read in books, and things told by college professors who got their education mostly by memorizing things read in books.

Responsibility is the price of freedom.

What others say of me matters little; what I myself say and do matters much.

You really are never playing an opponent. You are playing yourself.

In a society dominated by the fact of commercial competition, money is necessarily the test of prowess, and wastefulness the sole criterion of power.

I never thought about competing in the Olympic Games when I was growing up.

I think for me, the most fun competition that I’ve had was my first Worlds.

I’m very, very amateur, which is funny because I’m not in the amateur leagues.

In America you’re conditioned to regard everything as a contest. You have to make the Ten Best Dressed List, win this, win that. It drives me nuts sometimes. Who cares, for Christ’s sake?

I love tennis! I’ve always felt like this because it is such a classy sport with a great, competitive flair to it.

You really are never playing an opponent. You are playing yourself.