Quotes About Success

You are not guaranteed to be part of that story if you don't perform.

I have to work my way up. There's nothing guaranteed in this league.

Being in the Bullet Club is definitely a huge opportunity and guarantees more eyes on my work.

You can't always expect to work with a director who guarantees success.

I had to put in my time all through my 20s. Then I came to CNN in 2008 as a freelancer with no guarantees.

I would rather be a security guard than a rock star.

When I played, I just wanted to guard the best player, and I didn't want him to score. That was just it, just competing. Along the way, it just kept building that I could be a great defender.

In college, playing the two guard, I found a way to get drafted.

It's not an easy thing to be in this league 10 years. Especially with me being a second-round pick, the 46th pick, and an undersized guard, to carve a lane for myself and have a career, for my family to realize that and appreciate that, it meant a lot to me.

If I improve on the jump shot then I will be hard to guard.

I felt like I was one of the better point guards in the draft, maybe the best. But falling out of the first round and being selected in the second round, the number really doesn't matter where you get drafted - it's about the fit.

I want to be one of the best point guards to ever play.

There are a lot of great point guards in the NBA.

We did 'Bricks' and 'Ridiculous' all in one day. Gucci came here, like, 8 in the morning - we were done 4 the morning the next day.

My mom got me into some commercials, and I basically, I guess, just got out of my shell I was in at the time because I can't remember. I've just been blessed ever since.

If the song makes it and people like it, then I guess that's all that matters, really.

I just look back, and I say, you know, Christopher Guest just raised my whole career to another level.

For 'Guest Iin London,' I got a lot of appreciation.

My parents got me into tennis, and it's why I do what I do, and probably why I do it as well as I do it, because I've always had their guidance and their experience and their help throughout my whole life.

I will let my daughter do whatever her heart wants. I will support her and guide her and give her all the knowledge that I have because I want her to succeed in whatever she loves.

I really had little interest in becoming famous. When I write my book, it will be my guide to avoid becoming a rock star.

I've been been on the cover of TV Guide, on every single talk and entertainment show except Letterman. It's interesting being older and dealing with this kind of success. I'm more appreciative of it now, and I don't take it for granted.

Anna Wintour has guided me.

My one guiding rule for success in the film world would be, be careful of your friends.