Myron Rolle Quotes

When I was 24, I won a Rhodes Scholarship.

The Rhodes is something I've always really wanted. I would never have applied for it if I didn't really want to go. The opportunity to study at Oxford is amazing.

I am not the type who'd enter the best schools just to prove myself.

I found that, academically, it really didn't matter whether I had received a certain grade in a class; it didn't matter too much what schools I wanted to attend... What matters is one's drive, one's intelligence.

Having guys ranked in front of me that I know that I'm better than, that's always going to drive me.

Initially, it was my dream to get into RADA. Then I got in. So it became my dream to show them I wasn't half bad at acting.

I grew up hoping that my father might win a Nobel Prize.

I won a Marshall scholarship to read philosophy at Oxford, and what I most wanted to do was strengthen public intellectual culture - I'd write books and essays to help us figure out who we wanted to be.

I'm an ambitious person, and Harvard makes me feel successful, just having gotten in here. That's the ugly side of why I'm proud of being at Harvard Law School. Another reason is because there's a spirit of serious intellectual endeavor here.

I've always wanted to get an education, and tonight's as good a time as any.

I have to teach myself. I kind of wish I'd continued with my education, but that's something I can do in the future.

I want to win every single tournament that I'm playing in.

I want to test myself, playing with the best and against the best. I can do that at international level, so that's my target and what I want to reach.

I want to be regarded as the best guy in the world, and I want to beat the best guy in the world.

I want to challenge the best, and I'm ready.

My mom convinced me to audition for 'The X Factor.' And I just said, 'O.K., let me see what it's about. $5 million? Might as well try.' I tried out, and it worked out. I got through top seven out of 200,000, so I'm proud.

I know I have the potential to beat DC.

I think my parents - my mother in particular - always believed I should go as far as I could with my studies. There was no pressure, but at each step there were people who you admired, and you strived to those levels.

I've just got a real thirst for knowledge now, especially seeing how the world is, seeing how the disparity is with African American men, and I want to do something special. And getting a degree from Duke is special, especially coming from where I come from.

It's always been something like that growing up, knowing I wanted to be the best. And my brother considers himself the best, I consider myself the best.

I want to go a team where it'll be challenging for me.

I knew myself. I knew where I wanted to go in life. I wanted to be the very best I could be in whatever I pursued.

If I'm going to get up on stage to eat hot dogs, I'm not going to do it to get third or fourth.

I was in the business school. I was on the executive board of the business school and I kinda gave all that up and forewent a full scholarship to walk on at the University of Maryland. I just wanted to challenge myself, play at the top level and see if I could hang with the big boys, kinda get that national spotlight and play in prime time games.

I've never tried to hide the fact that it is my intention to become the best