Quotes About Success

I don't want to get into the U.S. Open through the back door. I want to earn it.

I want to go back to school, get my master's, and do the accountancy thing at last. You know, get back to the dream. The real dream, that is, not the football dream.

I think that when you go back to school when you're a little older, you're a lot more focused.

It's nice to see the results. You work so hard and you want to see results to back up the work that you've done.

Whether it's books or TV, or whatever the case may be, the backbone of what I do is my restaurants.

I'm Greek-American, and I come from an immigrant-type background, and Greek-American parents want you to be a doctor or a lawyer. Because that's how you make money, and it's very respectable.

And my career, the things that have happened have happened because of my music education background.

I came up from a difficult background.

I wanted to tell my story and where I came from and my background, because it was not easy.

The background - your own history - is way more important than what you can achieve as a professional.

The people I'm drawn to are sort of self-created. They came from backgrounds where not much was expected of them, necessarily.

Romesh Ranganathan and I come from similar backgrounds and we've both done well for ourselves.

It's great to have something to fall back upon. I don't come from a business family; so I thought of starting something so that my kids also have some backing in future.

You can't have enough good running backs.

We showed people we can win with our backs against the wall. We've just got to do that more often.

I was going out for absolutely everything that was in Backstage.

I'll always be a Backstreet Boy.

I never got in this to be a 3rd PG, or a backup. Nor did I get into this for money.

If you think you're going to be a backup, you're going to be a backup.

I don't think that I've ever been a backup.

It's definitely hard when you're putting in the work and the guy who's starting isn't, especially if he's overhyped or you're not winning. I can't imagine how hard it would be to be that guy's backup.

If you come in this league, and you're comfortable with being a backup, something's wrong.

I never felt my career was going backwards.

It's a bad day when you don't get the work done that you need to get done or you don't get it done to the satisfaction.