Ambition leads me not only farther than any other man has been before me, but as far as I think it possible for man to go.

I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go.

I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.

-- Jackie Robinson

Courage is grace under pressure.

-- Ernest Hemingway

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

-- George Orwell

Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.

-- Lou Gehrig

I ain't got no quarrel with them Viet Cong. No Viet Cong ever called me nigger.

-- Muhammad Ali

Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it.

-- Muhammad Ali