Leonardo Bonucci Quotes

Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal. Prepare yourself in every way you can by increasing your knowledge and adding to your experience, so that you can make the most of opportunity when it occurs.

I learned two basic lessons on Everest. First, just because something has worked in the past does not mean it will work today. Second, different challenges require different mindsets.

I didn't know what to expect coming into this year. There were a lot of question marks, and I think that's obvious now. Can we overcome it? Time will tell.

When you win a lot, you don't learn much. With my ups and downs, it's a lot of learning.

We all deal with failure. If you're lucky to have a long career, it's part of the experience.

I mean, the things you think will never happen, you have to confront; those things that come into your life that you thought you never could deal with, you do.

You may not win the Super Bowl. Your kids may not go on to be doctors and lawyers and everything may not go perfectly. That doesn't mean it was a bad plan or the wrong thing. It's just like a football season. Everything's not going to go perfect.

I think the one thing that athletics prepared me for that's been more beneficial than anything has been the humbling times.

There's a lot of heartache because you don't always win. You need loads of determination.

Hollywood is like life, you face it with the sum total of your equipment.

Always in life bad times will lead to great times.

I know I can't plan in this business, but I'm going to keep going as long as I keep getting close... So far, I feel lucky and infinitely grateful for the successes that I've had. I'm just going to keep working hard, and whatever happens, happens.

When we win, I'm excited about winning. That way, I get the ups and downs of a football season. But I also know that it's never as good as it seems; it's never as bad as seems. You always have to stay focused because you never know, for me. My role, it could expand. So you just got to always be ready.

You can't predict it all. People will tell you to plan things out as best you can. They will tell you to focus. They will tell you to follow your dreams. They will all be right.

You have to expect failure; not everything is going to work.

After you lose the Presidency, you don’t have much else to lose. My failures have helped make me a better Senator and Secretary of State…. I’m a more effective public person after some of the failures I’ve had through[out] my career.

The thing you think is going to be huge ends up not being huge at all, and the most minute thing you do is talked about for the rest of your life, so I try not to have any expectations at all. I think that helps, if you're just focusing on the project at hand.

Believe me, my journey has not been a simple journey of progress. There have been many ups and downs, and it is the choices that I made at each of those times that have helped shape what I have achieved.

People don't understand the analogy of football and acting, but there's a great deal of it that's the same. You get dressed in the room, and you think you've got it all prepared, and later on in the game you wish you had put on more pads 'cause they're just kicking the hell out of you. God almighty, I've been beat up by the best.

You never know what kind of challenges are going to be thrown in your way or opportunities will arise.

In football, there are good and bad times, but if you are a great side, you can be confident of winning trophies again.

It doesn't matter if you are number one or number two. You have to prepare for everything.

Experience is a really wonderful thing, and in a way we've been fortunate to have had so many ups and downs in our career, and a lot of struggles and a lot of sacrifices. But again, that's just an athlete's story.

Every season is hard, every season has its ups and downs.

Continuity is what makes success, but it is all about getting over the humps on the road to that; that's what football is all about.