Kevin Johnson Quotes

You have to believe in yourself, challenge yourself, and push yourself until the very end; that's the only way you'll succeed.

I'm trying as hard as I possibly can each and every day to get my life better and better and stronger. And if I win championships along the way, so be it.

I've been motivated by overcoming challenge and overcoming the hurdles and obstacles that face me. There still is plenty out there to get motivated by.

There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

I've always found that anything worth achieving will always have obstacles in the way and you've got to have that drive and determination to overcome those obstacles on route to whatever it is that you want to accomplish.

In the United States, if you believe in yourself and you're determined and persevere, you're going to succeed.

You just have to go as far as you can go. Everyone works his way up.

I don't feel like I've nearly got to the place where I'm ready to even slow down.

I just find that the harder you work and the more effort you put into yourself, the better you'll be.

My family and I had to overcome a lot to get where we are today.

There's always a new challenge to keep you motivated.

I learned to put 100 percent into what you're doing. I learned about setting goals for yourself, knowing where you want to be and taking small steps toward those goals. I learned about adversity and how to get past it.

I struggled to get through high school. I didn't get to go to college. But it made me realize you can do anything if you want to bad enough.

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

I like a challenge. I get such a sense of satisfaction when I push myself beyond what I thought I could do.

I strongly believe that through dedication and perseverance, one can overcome adversity to achieve success. It is a privilege to accept membership in the Horatio Alger Association, an organization which promotes this principle.

There's a big difference between where I came from and the NFL. Things like this don't happen to people from there often. It just took a lot of hard work and dedication, staying on the right path, believing in myself, and having an inner drive.

I was a sheet metal worker, then a metal engineer, then a Pontin's bluecoat, then a comedian. You can achieve anything you want if you put your mind to it.

After the success of 'Aashiqui 2', I feel I need to conquer a lot more. I am constantly working towards it, and I will work harder.

In 1987, I wrote a goal sheet. I didn't want to waste my life. I'd dropped out of college, and there was a lot of pressure from my parents. I decided, 'If you're going to do this, you're going to become the best in the world at this.'

Push yourself every single day to continue to work at yourself. And I feel like that's the reason why I made it.

I didn't corner the market on great stories. I'm not the only one who can do something like work at a grocery store and then win a Super Bowl. Other people can do it. You hope people will see that and say, 'Hey, that will be me.' They're going to chase after it like I did. And they're going to be the next one.

I'm about working, getting better, and proving people wrong.

When we do things that are really hard, we can achieve great things - and that has worked as a great model for me.

I made up my mind that I'd get out of that place and I didI learned that if you want to get somewhere, you just make up your mind and work like hell til you get there. If you want to go somewhere in life, you just have to work till you make it.