Quotes About Independence

She told me I wasn't playing for the coach, I was playing for myself.

I spent a lot of my career fighting coaches. When coaches told me don't shoot, I'd shoot anyway.

I think everyone can have their own opinion. I think that all that matters is how I feel and my opinion, my coaches, and the people around me, like my family.

I can't be Martin O'Neill; I can't be any of the other coaches - I have to make my own way.

At the end of it, I'll maybe do a coaching badge but I'm not going to get forced into things.

How would I coach LeBron and Lonzo? Guess what, less coaching is the best coaching. Let them do what they do.

People have wanted me to get involved in politics, you know, when I was coaching and I kept telling them, 'It's not for me to get up here and influence people.'

I don't mean to be cocky, but if I'm never on TV again, if I never make another dollar, I am proud. I did what I wanted to do.

I know that I need my coffee in the morning, and I don't want to talk to anybody at the start of my day!

I don't live in the Cold War. Some people maybe still live in the Cold War, but this is their problem, not mine.

Copiers do not collaborate.

I need to go out and write and produce my own stuff and collaborate with other women.

It's not that I can't collaborate. It's just that I don't know how to say no to people. If someone's like, 'Let's write a song together,' it's like, 'You'll write the song, and I'm gonna okay everything.' It's very hard to think that their ideas work with what I'm trying to do.

I love collaborating with people, but I also really love working by myself.

I don't like collaborating too much.

There's a joy I get from collaborating with other artists, and there's a joy I get from making songs on my own.

I'm not really one for collaborations, to be quite honest.

I've done a lot of collaboration over the years, but right now I'm enjoying writing by myself and just being me again for a while.

I want to be so giving and collaborative, but my best songs were written on my own.

I'm not a good collaborator in general.

Honestly, I've just made music so long by myself, in some ways I don't feel I'm a very good collaborator.

I can at least hearken to a time when I didn't have a cell phone, where I had to call my mom after movies collect from a pay phone, and when they said, 'State your name,' I'd say, 'Mom, pick me up,' and hang up the phone.

You decide to give your trust over to somebody. And if you don't decide to, then for me, it's really not worth going into collective enterprises; you should just work alone.

I dropped out of college when I was 18 to be in a band.