“Everyting negative - pressure, challenges - is all an opportunity for me to rise.”

“Life is a challenge" he once told me, "and only those who rise to the challenge truly know what it means to live.”

“This is an opportunity for bipartisanship and transcendence, an opportunity to find our better selves and in rising to meet this challenge, create a better brighter future — a future worthy of the generations who come after us and who have a right to be able to depend on us.”

“Good and few opportunities come openly, better and more opportunities accompany challenges while the best and most opportunities come in the form of challenges.”

“‎"Make an obstacle an opportunity, make a negative a positive.”

“Decoupling growth from environmental degradation is the number one challenge facing governments in a world of rising numbers of people, rising incomes, rising consumption demands and the persistent challenge of poverty alleviation.”

“The expression of negative emotions gives rise to endless pain and suffering.”

“All disturbances and challenges rise not only from our relationship with others, but in our attitude to all other things and beings.”

“Stop pressuring me, just stop pressuring me,
Stop pressuring me,
Make me wanna scream.”

“From this inhuman pressure doping is born because the athlete feels the imperative of having to be No. 1. I believe instead that sport should be a private pressure, a challenge for yourself.”