The two hardest things to handle in life are failure and success.

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.

Be true to the strength within your own heart then you can never go wrong.

The wind blows in a certain direction which I can’t change but I can adjust my own sails to reach the destination that I am hoping for.

There are two ways you can get yourself revved up – fear of failure and love of success. Personally, I like both things to be working in you, the same as you can win a game at one end of the ground and save it at the other.

We should be able to find the bigger part of ourselves.

You’ve always got to be aware of why you don’t win; otherwise you’ll keep losing. Every mistake is a learning experience and, hopefully, you won’t make the same mistake again.

You have to perform to the best of your ability, and if you have to argue stringently, if you have to persist and to state your case strongly, then you do it.

The most enjoyable professional experience and challenge in my life has been to achieve those things many critics said couldn’t be done. I am not satisfied with second best.

As we weep for what we have lost, and as we grieve for family and friends and we confront the challenge that is before us, I want us to remember who we are. We are Queenslanders. We’re the people that they breed tough, north of the border. We’re the ones that they knock down, and we get up again.