Quotes About Success

I have a saying: Nigerians don't fit in second place. Everything we do we go hard.

To be the first Nigerian to play for Manchester United is a great achievement for me which I am going to cherish for the rest of my life because it's not easy to dream something and it comes true. It's a great feeling.

'Friday Night Lights' was an incredible show.

'Saturday Night Live' was the joy of my life.

David Frost plucked me from the nightclubs.

I had a nightmare that I was mopping floors and that this Freddie Gibbs thing was all a dream.

I think it'd be a real nightmare to put a record out and sell 20 million copies and then that's it.

My professional dreams were coming true while I was living a personal nightmare.

99 percent of the time when you cast right, it's a dream. If you cast wrong, it's a nightmare.

I want it all: I want the attention and live for the glory nights.

Some nights, I was so good that I could have become an egotist.

A lot of late nights in the gym, a lot of early mornings, especially when your friends are going out, you're going to the gym, those are the sacrifices that you have to make if you want to be an NBA basketball player.

When I look back at my first few seasons in the NBA, we didn't dominate as a team. There were a lot of nights where we took a beating and got whacked across the head. But we got better along the way, and we started to taste the success. With that came the pressure and expectations to be successful.

There were nights I was at home crying, thinking I'd never make it. I'd get up the next day and go to the audition, do my best, and try my hardest.

To sell out London's Hammersmith Apollo is amazing. Selling it out for two nights? Even better.

I was very happy working in 'Comedy Nights' with Kapil.

Some nights you're going to have a lot of energy, some nights you're not. The great ones find energy from nothing.

My character has got its own individuality after the 'Comedy Nights.' People recognize me as Palak. I'm quite happy that Palak has attained such an identity.

I had to build my name here by doing talent nights, talent competitions and networking and meeting all the working girls and figure out how to work this animal of New York City.

You just go out there and try to do your best. Some days are great. Other nights, it's maybe not your day. It's the other guy's day.

Awards nights are a part of our modern culture; they're part of what we do.

To be able to represent Nike as a brand is one thing, but to also represent the great players that came before me means a lot.

I joined Nike because I wanted to be the best female athlete ever.

When people ask what college I graduated from, I say: I didn't graduate from college. I graduated from Nike. I started my career as an intern getting coffee.