Brian Banks Quotes

I was an opportunist and got away with things because I was very young, but I went to prison and came out and remade my life.

There is nothing as sweet as a comeback, when you are down and out, about to lose, and out of time.

I like to think that even if we make some really bad choices and go down some bad paths, we'll eventually emerge from it.

After my spectacular failures, I could not be satisfied with an ordinary success.

There is a very good chance I could have been a screw-up for the rest of my life.

I was in jail a couple of times, and I was probably heading back there for a long time. But martial arts saved my life and some of the choices I made with it.

I escaped my destiny. The odds were that I would end up in prison, but I didn't.

A lot of fighters are counted out after a loss, and it's really what you do afterward that offers an explanation to your career.

I've never stabbed, hurt, killed, stolen, anything, but I went to jail for a year. What is that? My pastor said to me the fact that I'm not living under a bridge as a crazy woman, talking to myself, is amazing.

To be very honest, I never thought I would graduate from high school. I got very lucky to get into an alternative high school, which really saved my butt.

Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?

It is strange when you're a loser in college, which I was, to then get your own show.

Some of us can be examples about going ahead and growing, and some of us, unfortunately, don't make it there, and end up being examples because they had to die. I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn't death.

I could have easily gone down the wrong path and dropped out of school, but I was given a second chance.

I was a young kid; I did a little time in the Billerica House of Correction, and it basically turned my life around because I said, 'Oh, I'll never be locked up again. They're not taking away my privacy.' So I flipped a coin: heads - Miami, tails -California.

I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn't death.

Everyone who turns up on 'X Factor' does it because a door has been closed to them at some time in their lives, and this is the only shot they have got.

Most people are fascinated by what I did as a teenager, but when I look back at my life, I don't think very much about those years. I was an opportunist and got away with things because I was very young, but I went to prison and came out and remade my life.

I served my time and came out of prison when I was just 26 and have worked with the government for 37 years. But people only remember me for what I did before that.

I think most people have a general sense that when you're released from prison, life is hard, but, you know, if you work hard and apply self-discipline and stay out of trouble, you can make it. But that's true only for a relative few.

There were a lot of moments in my life where I could have died or I could have ended up serving 20 years to life in prison. I overcame those things, those obstacles, because I listened and I obeyed that higher power that was speaking to me at the crucial moments in my life when it really counted.

Man, I was a troubled kid. I was going to get kicked out of a Christian school and got sent to military school for a year and a half, and I didn't really have much direction until I got the opportunity to drive race cars.

I was written off as a lost cause. But I'm living proof that miracles can happen.

I thought the Mike Tyson story was beautiful and it drew me in. He was bullied, a small kid who started knocking out giants.

Boxing saved my life. There were a lot of gangs and I was hanging around with the wrong people.