Quotes About Success

My parents started Party Pieces the same year I was born, so I have grown up with their entrepreneurial way of thinking, which, to me, became the norm.

Differences are scarier now. The dollar isn't so guaranteed if you don't follow what they see as the norm. But I don't moan about it. I just keep working.

But I think it's more normal for my team to have no success than it is to win two consecutive European cups.

You don't win championships by just being normal, by just being average.

My dad's not the most normal thinking person. It's not normal to need to make millions or billions of dollars.

It is not normal that one team dominates for 20 years in a row as the champion.

If I start to become a star, I'll lose contact with the normal guys I play best.

Becoming a good player so quickly made me miss a lot of the normal life of a normal teenager.

I'm so glad we have jobs after fighting. A lot of important fighters before would stop fighting and have nothing left. Today, you can fight and make money in a normal life.

That's what I actually like about boxing: no matter how well you do, you can still have a normal life.

You have competition all over the world, not only in football, in normal life, too. Everyone fights for his place, but in the end, we have many games to play, and everybody is going to play games.

There is a constant tug-of-war between the competitor within me wanting to win, win, win and the human in me wanting to live a normal life with my family away from the public glare.

In the NBA, you always have to make the right decisions. You should feel free to live a normal life, but you really can't.

So, you do make a lot of sacrifices in the business, but you have to stay humble and you have to live that normal life. That's what I do now. It keeps me grounded.

I was determined that I was going to have a successful and normal life.

I've spent a lot of years living with normal people. If I take a private jet to go to a meeting in Milan, well, that's my business; I can do it. But I don't live for it.

I know how difficult it is to get one job, much less an entirely new career. I'm very blessed and grateful. It's like I'm a normal person with an extraordinary journey.

As a human, yeah, it's awesome. You grow up and you are in Little League, and you want to make the all-star team; you go to college, and you want to make the all-star team. So any normal person would want to do it on the biggest stage and highest level. And I'm a normal person. I haven't changed there.

When you are winning games in a row, normally what the people say about you is good.

Normally, if you go through a game without attracting attention, you are doing a hell of a job.

It's normally the kiss of death to be identified as a rising star, or someone to watch.

I'm not normally content with what I do unless I win.

What's amazing with 'The X Factor' is that it gives people a chance who wouldn't normally have one. I couldn't go on it, because it would be, like, me being lazy, because I've definitely had my opportunities.

In film, normally what happens is that not many people work more than once. Normally, it breaks couples. It doesn't make them.