If i ever let my head down it will be just to admire my shoes
The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
The one who comes first to the mill gets milled first
All footballers are motivated by money – those who say otherwise are lying.
Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.
I have self-doubt. I have insecurity. I have fear of failure. I have nights when I show up at the arena and I’m like, ‘My back hurts, my feet hurt, my knees hurt. I don’t have it. I just want to chill.’ We all have self-doubt. You don’t deny it, but you also don’t capitulate to it. You embrace it.
The first time that I appeared on stage, it scared me to death. I really didn’t know what all the yelling was about. I didn’t realize that my body was moving. It’s a natural thing to me. So to the manager backstage I said, ‘What’d I do? What’d I do?’ And he said “Whatever it is, go back and do it again.
I’m as happy as I can get – meeen I’ve been happier.
Once you know what failure feels like, determination chases success.
If a man says you’re ugly, he’s just mean. If a woman says you’re ugly, she’s just jealous. If a kid says you’re ugly, you’re ugly.
It’s not about whether you get knocked down. It’s about whether you get back up again.
Instead of buying your children all the things you never had, you should teach them all the things you were never taught. Material wears out but knowledge stays.
Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.
Stay away from negative people, they have a problem for every solution
If you worried about falling off the bike, you’d never get on.
The beauty in being blessed with talent is rising above doubters to create a beautiful moment.
Wearing unbranded and cheap clothes does not mean you are poor. Remember you have a family to feed, not a community to impress.
I like Danish humour – I just wish you had more of it.
You must never let your worst enemy get into your head.
I want a globe as a birthday present – in life size.
We must screw down the expectations. We have to change our tactics and play with long balls
At my age, you think about the afterlife. I’m mostly inclined to think there’s nothing there, but sometimes I can’t help but let my imagination run wild. My good friend Ulla Steen says she believes that all of us who like each other meet in the big angel bar where we are expected. I see myself arriving at the angel bar, and there’s my father, my husband and my son, and one of them says: “There’s Lise. Now we are four again for a l’hombre.
Each day is a new beginning, I know that the only way to live my life is to try to do what is right, to take the long view, to give of my best in all that the day brings, and to put my trust in God.
Ultimately, it is the extra effort that separates the best from the second best. It requires ambition, determination, discipline and a willingness to sacrifice. If you add all this up, and even if you don’t win – how can you lose?