Quotes About Success

I always knew I was going to make it, without doubt.

I like to see people doubt me.

When people doubt me, I love it.

Nobody really doubted me playing football, making it to the NFL. I was like, 'I know I can do that.'

I have never doubted that I would succeed from the moment I first began playing football.

I've always been a little bit doubted, and I've tried to go out and prove people wrong.

There's always doubts about me, and I always want to prove people wrong, so that's what I try to do.

I know certain actors who have done very well. They are still down to earth.

There is a downside to having one of the biggest-selling albums ever.

That's the downside of playing for one of the top teams: that no matter how well you play, sometimes you have to step aside.

I'd like to be rich, but without all the downside of fame.

I would like to work with Dr. Dre.

When you get a draft pick right, you should be given full credit.

I don't want to be that guy that thinks he is a high draft pick and that he has it all.

I didn't know there was an NBA draft. But in my mind, I was always telling myself, one day, 'I'm going to be in professional basketball.' And I believed it. One day, I will. I believe this every day. I think about this every day. I was going to do whatever I had to do to be there. And it comes true.

I have watched the NBA draft just about every year, so to see myself up there, that is something I am excited about.

It was even hard to imagine I was going to play in the NBA, because so many guys playing in Europe are not even getting to the Euroleague and everything. But everybody wants to play in the NBA. So when draft night came, it was a dream come true.

You don't hit on every player. On every trade. On every draft pick. Show me a team that's hit on every one. And I'll applaud that team.

A lot of people didn't really think I'd make it until the draft. The people that hate, that's a part of it. It makes me go out there and prove everybody wrong. I don't really get caught up in what they say.

It doesn't matter where you're drafted.

I wasn't drafted high.

I'm not really too focused on where I get drafted. It's what I do after I get drafted.

You get drafted on potential.

I used to say my biggest accomplishment was just getting drafted, whether it was the first pick or the 100th or whatever.