"Don't ally yourself with people who don't help you succeed."
"There was a time when I was making a lot of money and moving very fast. I didn't like who I was. I could tell by the company I was keeping."
"I have a very good support team and system behind me, and I have people who really understand the vision I have for stepping into the future."
"I love the music, I love who I am. So that is the driving force to make everything else work."
"I'm one of those cats who could listen to Public Enemy and then pop that out and throw an NWA tape in there."
"Music is the best way I can express myself, meaning that why I write and how I came to love music comes out through Xzibit. Who I am, who Alvin Joiner is, comes out when I pick up that pen and write."
"Dr Dre has never told me a lie. I look up to him, not only as a business man, but just as someone who has become his own man in this business. He's always recognised the hard-working ethic that I have and given me opportunities based on that."
"There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men."
"Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal."
"Everybody knows I'm a player who wants to play at the highest level; this is pretty normal."
"I am the opposite of someone who is not professional."
"It's very important to have a coach who wants to win every single game and who approaches them like they are not a problem - whether it is against Sunderland or Man City or against anyone."
"It's the most important thing - especially for a young player who wants to improve - to improve his talent and learn, and the best way to do that is to play in the games."
"I'm just a player who wants to work and who does my job every day, the same as I always did."
"Those men who, in war, seek to preserve their lives at any rate commonly die with shame and ignominy, while those who look upon death as common to all, and unavoidable, and are only solicitous to die with honour, oftener arrive at old age and, while they live, live happier."
"Socrates gave a lifetime to the outpouring of his substance in the shape of the greatest benefits bestowed on all who cared to receive them. In other words, he made those who lived in his society better men and sent them on their way rejoicing."
"For myself, I think that those who cultivate wisdom and believe themselves able to instruct their fellow-citizens as to their interests are least likely to become partisans of violence. They are too well aware that to violence attach enmities and dangers, whereas results as good may be obtained by persuasion safely and amicably."
"Let a man sow a field or plant a farm never so well, yet he cannot foretell who will gather in the fruits; another may build him a house of fairest proportion, yet he knows not who will inhabit it."
"He who eats with most pleasure is he who least requires sauce."
"For drink, there was beer which was very strong when not mingled with water, but was agreeable to those who were used to it. They drank this with a reed, out of the vessel that held the beer, upon which they saw the barley swim."
"Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy."
"There is one God - supreme among gods and men - who is like mortals in neither body nor mind."
"I wish I was agile like Spider-Man and everything we do that draws on the childhood inspirations and the adulthood inspirations, for that matter. They're definitely the reason how I am, how I am today, because I was a smaller kid who was a nerd."
"On some very real levels, seeing what has happened to guys and girls who have been in the wrestling business when they have to transition out is hard. It's very difficult."
"The question for France and all countries is, 'Do you favour foreign Internet operators that do not pay, or do you favour national operators who pay?'"
