Skills are built not born.

The road to success is like a staircase. If you want to succeed, double your failure rate

The boxer is not afraid of being knocked down, he is afraid of not being able to get up again.

In order to become better than anybody else you must first become better than yourself.

Don't expect to be good at maths or understand things straight away. Be patient and persistent. Rome wasn't built in a day, but they worked on it every single day. 

Patience is when you’re supposed to get mad, but you choose to understand

There are no bad mistakes in maths, only discoveries.

Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard.

Pure mathematics is in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

Whenever you find yourself doubting how far you can go, just remember how far you have come.

GCSE and A Level Maths are a marathon not a sprint

Go as far as you can see, when you get there, you’ll be able to see further

Time is your friend, impulse is your enemy.

Everything that happens was once a dream.

The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried