Great performers are, by definition, abnormal; they strive throughout their entire careers to separate themselves from the pack.

You will not do incredible things without an incredible dream.

Thinking is a habit, and like any other habit, it can be changed; it just takes effort and repetition.

As soon as anyone starts telling you to be "realistic," cross that person off your invitation list.

Exceptional thinkers ignore their critics and go about their business making history.

What turns ordinary people into overachievers is the way they use their minds when they are called on to perform.

If you really want to find out what you're capable of, you cannot put limits on yourself, and you definitely cannot be cautious.

Stick with your own perception of yourself-living in your own world-and letting your reality, not the reality presented by other people or particular situations, control your performance.

Overachievers don't think reasonably, sensibly, or rationally.

Superstars think like superstars long before the fans or the press anoint them.

Confidence is not a guarantee of success, but a pattern of thinking that will improve your likelihood of success, a tenacious search for ways to make things work.

The future is only the past again, entered through another gate.

I tell Allah I love Him immensely, immensely. But I tell Him I cannot be better, because of how the world is.

There is always the possibility of a better life with every change that we face, but sometimes we have to look hard for it.

I feel like it's my job to carry the torch.

One thing I’ve noticed about getting older, it takes twice as much work to get half the results one formerly achieved by falling out of bed.

It isn't illegal to buy an artist's work for peanuts and sell it again at any price one can get. But it is an outrage!

The record company stay out of my way. Whenever the record is finished, they take it.

And long shall timorous fancy see The painted chief, and pointed spear, And Reason's self shall bow the knee To shadows and delusions here.

However I am looking forward to the two new Grands Prixs both Shanghai and Laguna Seca are fantastic tracks and it will be good to race at them.

Oh, that's the beauty of the rose, that it blossoms and dies.