Although in skating you compete with other people anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me the idea that I could always do better learn more learn faster is something that came from skating. But I carried that with me for the rest of my life.

Success is like a liberation or the first phrase of a love story.

The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.

I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to and maybe the first time you do it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.

People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.

The two most important requirements for major success are: first being in the right place at the right time and second doing something about it.

The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest success only comes later.

If at first you don't succeed try try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.

I've always been really athletic which really helped because when I first started doing the training for Bulletproof Monk it required so much strength that if I didn't have a base I don't really know what I would have done.