Quotes About Success

Ability can take you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there

Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.

You got de keys to de kingdom.

Though attacked by Wright and virtually ignored by his literary heirs, Hurston's ideas about language and craft undergird many of the most successful contributions to Afro-American literature that followed.

The truth is, I hadn't grown up really wanting to be a writer. The whole thing was a weird aberration in some ways, and I didn't feel personally connected to the level of success I had with it - the success of sorts, I guess.

I'm about this shmoney.

I'm at peace with what I've been able to accomplish, not only domestically but abroad, and what I was able to do on the international level.

If one day I start thinking about playing abroad, money won't be the reason.

You look at someone like Jadon Sancho, he took the chance of going abroad to get more game time and now he's possibly up there with the top players, wingers, in the world.

Carl Pendleton's the absolute best. He's everything you want in a student-athlete.

The point is that there are few opportunities in top games. For this you need a striker who has the absolute will to achieve the goal.

When you have seven to eight players performing game after game, you are on an absolute roll.

Do I like being No. 1? Absolutely. Who doesn't?

Before it happened to me, I'd look at other people who had become really successful and think, 'What a dream. That must be absolutely everything they ever wanted.' When it does happen to you, you realize yes, it's incredible. But it also comes with a bit of a weird aftertaste.

Me and my wife started with absolutely nothing.

Ive definitely got a sense of not being very good at stuff. Its sort of absurd because, you know, Ive done really quite well for myself, but I still really doubt myself. Its just the way I am.

You can still get results without abuse.

IQ is a very important predictor, not just of academic success, but of economic success.

It's been our goal as a program to always give our players the best opportunity to be successful, whether it's personally, academically, or athletically.

I was used to being successful in school, but academics didn't make me happy.

Ajax is the best academy in the world.

I knew that if I wanted to be all I could be, I would have to go to the U.S. It took three years to get the accent right.

I remember early in my career people telling me I needed to change my accent, that I needed to sound more professional, more BBC perhaps, but I think if I wasn't from Middlesbrough I wouldn't have done as well as I have.

I want to be the best, so whatever comes with that, I'll have to accept.