Your fitness is your ability to recover and you can't recover when you're old.

When someone like Richard Branson goes up there and starts doing chartered flights... and you can look back on Earth and see the Earth's curvature, I'll believe the Earth is a globe.

There's no proof of the Earth's curvature and this fake space agency Nasa use CGI images and every one is different.

The Earth is flat, 100 per cent.

If we surrendered to earth's intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees.

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow

Encouragement is the most important thing in the world for young people, rather than league tables, which demoralise everyone.

Excellence requires discomfort.

One who is persistent will excel.

The idea of voluntary segregation went against every value I had been taught. What did being born black have to do with excellence?

“Give me your details, and from an armchair I will return you an excellent expert opinion.”

“In the common degree of the moral, there is no virtue. Virtue is excellence.”

“Virtue is excellence, something uncommonly great and beautiful, which rises far above what is vulgar and ordinary.”

The noblest search is the search for excellence.

I believe the destiny of your generation - and your nation - is a rendezvous with excellence.

The noblest search is the search for excellence

"There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception."

"The supreme excellence is not to win a hundred victories in a hundred battles. The supreme excellence is to subdue the armies of your enemies without even having to fight them."

"We made excellent progress in 2005 by improving our management of the distribution channel, reducing inventories throughout the supply chain and reducing our capital spending and ultimately depreciation expense."

"Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat."

"Basketball is a beautiful game when the five players on the court play with one heartbeat."

"I'd never get elected if people in North Carolina realized how liberal I am."

"Basketball is a team game. But that doesn't mean all five players should have the same amount of shots."

"Whenever I read a passage that moves me, I transcribe it in my diary, hoping my fingers might learn what excellence feels like."