Quotes About Success

I think when I moved to the United States and saw how serious basketball was and how good I was compared to everyone else. You just came from Canada and you're top five in the country; you're young and everyone says you can be a pro. That's when I started thinking: if I work hard, the dream can come true.

To be quite honest, and anybody will tell you, growing up I was going to be a pro athlete. I didn't have any option. That was my way out.

I started playing pro in Argentina. Then I went to second division in Italy. Then after a lot of work, I made it to first division. And at 25, I got here in the NBA.

To play 18 years as a pro and have a great college career, it's awesome.

I didn't make the Pro Bowl until my seventh year I think in the NFL. We continually got better.

Most pro athletes are super competitive, super clutch, and they don't want to lose at anything.

I started in my pro debut in a leisure centre in front of a couple of hundred people and I just worked hard for the last eight or nine years of my professional career.

Going pro out of high school maybe won't work for everybody, but I know that wherever my career goes I'm happy with the choice I made.

I've spent my entire adulthood in pro football.

Only having a short dose of an NBA career, my entry into pro basketball started in 2003 and ended up being an entry way onto the world of business.

I didn't start out planning to be Mr. Olympia I just wanted to be the best that I could be, but my goals changed as I went along. I wanted to be the British champion, and then I wanted to be a pro, then Mr. Olympia.

The pro game is about confidence.

Why should the televised stuff be only about pro gamers? For me it's more fascinating to see who's going to be the next god of gods than watching some pro gamer.

This is somewhere I want to be for now on, being in the Pro Bowl and being an All-Pro player.

I think many fighters could go pro in another sport. When it really boils down to it, it's because we are the best athletes in the world.

A pro football player is lucky. He has a chance to meet a lot of people and make some potential business connections.

I want to score goals. Everyone says that's the only part of my game that's missing. Before I was a pro I used to score goals for fun. I want to bring that back into my game.

Obviously, not many people get to be pro athletes and hopefully make it in their sport. So I'm just lucky enough to have the chance.

I was the 10th pick, people were thinking could be an All-Star, but I turned out to be a pretty damn good pro.

Luckily, I have been a part of New Japan Pro Wrestling for eight years and it's been a great run with a lot of cool things and amazing experiences.

When you treat your career early on really crappy, you can't expect to be in a good position. That's just the way pro fighting is.

You paid attention to every cornerback that was drafted before you. You always tried to outperform those guys. And for me, that's always been in the back of my mind - starting with not being invited to the combine, of wanting to make sure I had a good Pro Day and then getting drafted at the end of the sixth round.

Now as I got older, it wasn't just that I want to be a pro in two sports, I want to be successful at the professional level in two sports. Obviously, I'm still working to attain that. Especially in basketball.

I always told my mother when I was growing up that I was going to go pro in something, and it came true. All the hard work paid off for me.