One hundred percent of shots not taken don't go in.

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

If you come to a fork in the road, take it

I have always said the French team is the most important thing that has happened to me. I thought deeply about it and I want to play for France again.

“Read it up – you really should. There is nothing new under the sun. It has all been done before.”

“You know my methods. Apply them.”

“He who has set his heart exclusively upon the pursuit of worldly welfare is always in a hurry, for he has but a limited time at his disposal to reach, to grasp, and to enjoy it.”

“Tut, man, don't sprawl there. Get up and put your shoulder to the wheel.”

“It is easy to propose impossible remedies." The”

“Try before you trust.”

“Pleasure bought with pains, hurts.”

“Little by little does the trick.”

“After all is said and done, more is said than done.”

“The great secret of education is to direct vanity to proper objects.”

“We are but one of the multitude, in no respect better than any other in it.”

“Motivation theory is not synonymous with behavior theory. The motivations are only one class of determinants of behavior. While behavior is almost always motivated, it is also almost always biologically, culturally and situationally determined as well.”

“You must want to be first-class …meaning the best, the very best you are capable of becoming. If you deliberately plan to be less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you’ll be deeply unhappy for the rest of your life. You will be evading your own capacities, your own possibilities.”

“Certainly a visitor from Mars descending upon a colony of birth-injured cripples, dwarfs and hunchbacks...could not deduce what they should have been. But then let us not study cripples, but the closest thing we can get to whole, healthy men. In them, we find qualitative differences, a different system of motivation, emotion, value, thinking and perceiving. In a certain sense, only the saints are mankind. All the rest are cripples.”

“Knowledge and action are very closely bound together, all agree. I go much further, and am convinced that knowledge and action are frequently synonymous, even identical in the Socratic fashion. Where we know fully and completely, suitable action follows automatically and reflexly. Choices are then made without conflict and with full spontaneity.”

“It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is called variously by different authors self-actualization, self-realization, integration, psychological health, individuation, autonomy, creativity, productivity, but they all agree that this amounts to realizing the potentialities of the person, that is to say, becoming fully human, everything that person can be.”

“What one can be, one must be!”

“If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.”

“One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.”

“The best way to treat obstacles is to use them as stepping-stones. Laugh at them, tread on them, and let them lead you to something better.”