Quotes About Success

It's a great opportunity to get picked top 10 in the draft. It's just a dream that I've always had.

When I found out that I was picked to be on 'The Ultimate Fighter,' my first thought is that my dream had come true.

When you book a network show as an actor, it's like, 'Oh my gosh, I booked a network show,' and then it gets picked up.

I thought not getting picked in the first round was the end of the world.

I went off and did 'Space,' which turned out very well, and when the series was picked up, my options were to stay with 'Space' as a producer/director or go to 'The X-Files' as a producer/director.

The money that these baseball players are getting, I'm like, 'Man I picked the wrong sport.' But I'm having a great career. I wouldn't change it for the world.

Consciously picking the right script after a long period of wait helped me grab a perfect film in the rom-com genre.

I'm getting good exposure because of the movies I'm picking and the people I'm working with.

At this point, I can't say what network would be picking it up, but I know that it would be a success.

At the end of my life, is it better to say that I empowered people to make great stuff, or that I died with a net worth of $10 billion? Obviously I'm picking the former, although I would not mind both.

As I got older, I'd say probably when I got to, like, seventh or eighth grade, I was living in Atlanta, Georgia at the time, and I went for an open call for an agent, a local agent out there, a woman named Joy Purvis, and she ended up picking me up.

I'm a big believer in picking your boss, not the job. Great people create great jobs.

So, my records really didn't sell, but musicians started picking up on my sound and my songs and cutting my songs and that turned into a gold mine.

You have to bump or throw a block sometimes. Even when it goes wrong, how many times has it worked? I think it's a matter of picking and choosing your battles. You gotta do what you've gotta do to try to get a win.

Maybe I should be a literary agent. I'm good at picking up on books that become successful before it happens. I could pick up a lot more money than making films.

Everything in life is overcoming objectives. I don't care if you're picking up a woman in a bar or trying to jump a rocket over a river.

It doesn't matter who picks me up, I'm going to try and be a franchise player for them.

When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.

My job, if someone picks me, is to come and perform. That's what we do for a living.

I'm cool with Dr. Dre, I have his phone number, and he picks up when I call.

The manager picks the team and the team has got to go out and do its best.

There aren't a lot of second chances for second-round picks.

We were always setting picks and screens and looking for an open shot.

There are more second-, third-, fourth-, fifth- and so on in the big leagues than first-round picks.