There are times when a leader must move out ahead of the flock, go off in a new direction, confident that he is leading his people the right way.

Everyone can rise above their circumstances and achieve success if they are dedicated to and passionate about what they do.

Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.

Whenever I am with energetic young people, I feel like a recharged battery.

Sport can create hope, where once there was only despair. It is more powerful than governments in breaking down racial barriers.

The time will come when our nation will honour the memory of all the sons, the daughters, the mothers, the fathers, the youth and the children who, by their thoughts and deeds, gave us the right to assert with pride that we are South Africans, that we are Africans, and that we are citizens of the world.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.