Quotes About Success

I'm spoiled - in all ways. I've been in a rock 'n' roll band since I was 13, and we had incredible success. When it ended, it had been so good that I just looked at it as time to try something different.

Early in my career, I was really spoiled with a beautiful project. I got such a good start that I thought, 'Why would I ever take a step back?' Why would I take on something that wasn't meaningful - to me, if nobody else - and powerful and groundbreaking?

I wasn't sheltered or spoiled. All the money I made, I made myself.

I'm pretty spoiled. I work a lot. I go from project to project.

You lead with direction, and you try to lead by example. I try to be there when things are not good and obviously share the spoils of success.

No praying, it spoils business.

You're spoilt as an actor if you are in that small percentage that works regularly.

Now, all the people who spoke before, when I won the Golden Ball, have shut their mouths now the coaches and players from national teams have given me this prize and this recognition.

I wanted to make music that spoke to me, without having the expectation of success that comes with Lady Antebellum.

I got all A's and was hated for it; I spoke correctly and was called a punk.

I was in the fashion shows in Milan; I was seventeen, I was doing like 100 shows. People were asking, 'How does it feel to be the model of the moment?' It was hard for me to answer as myself. I barely spoke English.

I ended up performing one time at BET. I performed my record, like, four times, and the crowd was going super crazy. And Busta just happened to be there; he pulled me to the side and asked, 'Are you signed to anybody?' So we went to the studio a few days later, spoke, and then became business partners.

My parents, they were both Socialists; they were young - 30, 31. They were both successful career people. They had been teachers, and my dad spoke English.

'Shaadi... ' made people see me as an actor. A lot of filmmakers called and said I was really good in the film... People from the industry - who never spoke to me, didn't think I was a great actor because they hadn't seen my work - said I can act.

One of the things that defined me is that I spoke in my songs very loudly, the negative messages, and I already managed to dominate commercial music.

The most important thing is that Spain have a good team no matter who plays. It is always nice to see your name spoken but the important thing is that the national team does well. But having good players for every position is important because there are always injuries, drops of form.

Anybody I have spoken to who has held a record says 'Records are meant to be broken.' They get excited when somebody has an opportunity to break one of their records and take the sport even further.

My work has spoken for itself, and I've been offered work purely on merit.

When I first went into a boxing gym I watched Kovalev fight on TV and now my name is spoken about in the same light as him, now I'm fighting him.

You have to enjoy winning and being part of a successful team, just being a young bloke. But at the same time you want to be back page and not front page news and be spoken about for your cricket and contributing to winning rather than getting it wrong on a night out.

They say you have to be good to be lucky, but I think you have to be lucky to be good.

Make your own talent, make your own luck, and activate your stubborn streak, and there's nothing that can stop you.

And wheresoe'er thou move, good luck Shall fling her old shoe after.

By luck I mean, when opportunity meets preparation.