Quotes About Independence

I can change a light fixture, and I can do certain things. But I'm really bad in terms of construction. I can't do any of it on my own.

I don't think I've had a job since I worked for my father's construction company.

We don't use consultants at Landry's. We're our consultants.

I'm not going to conform to some consumer need.

You can't care what anybody else thinks - even though your life is out there maybe for a bit of public consumption.

If I don't have my 1-Day Acuvue Moist Brand Multifocal contact lenses in, I simply don't feel as confident.

Without contacts, I'm almost blind.

Having no contemporaries left means you cannot say, 'Well, so-and-so will like this,' which you do when you're younger. You realize there is no so-and-so anymore. You are your own so-and-so. There is a bleak side to it.

Being single is only sad if you have a problem with your own company. I'm content with mine.

By empowering players - not just players, but grown men - to think for themselves outside of the game, you hope that they will be more likely to adapt to a situation and seize the moment in a sporting contest.

The concept of loneliness and exile and self-sufficiency continually bucks me up.

You get a million-dollar contract, you can live off that the rest of your life.

Being under contract gives you financial and emotional security. But you lose the sense of accomplishment that goes hand in hand with being a free agent.

I became a free agent in 1999. I retired, that's how I got out of my contract. From that moment on, I've always been in control of my own destiny.

I think of the friends of mine who were blissfully single in their 20s and 30s. Still single in their 40s and 50s, they seem to be contracting a bit.

I always do the contrary of what my coaches tell me.

If you want to control other people, first control yourself.

I feel confident. I feel empowered. I feel in control.

You can't control how other people see you or think of you. But you have to be comfortable with that.

You have to take control of your own life, your own destiny, and your own careers. You can't leave everything up to someone else, 'cause then you can look at them and blame them.

I wasn't going to let anything control me.

I very much want to do things my way, and I want to control the result.

I don't really like being controlled by anyone.

I like to be controlled, but that doesn't mean controlled like a dog.