“to be the best you have to work harder than anyone else.”

“Sometimes you have to try harder than your hardest to get anyone to notice you...”

“I've always resented the smug statements of politicians, media commentators, corporate executives who talked of how, in America, if you worked hard you would become rich. The meaning of that was if you were poor it was because you hadn't worked hard enough. I knew this was a lie, about my father and millions of others, men and women who worked harder than anyone, harder than financiers and politicians, harder than anybody if you accept that when you work at an unpleasant job that makes it very hard work indeed.”

“to fail a class you have to work harder to fail than to pass the class your trying to fail.”

“You are the only you ... You are the best you. You will always be the second best anyone else.”

“You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.”