Casemiro Quotes

My goal is to live out my dreams, to have a long NBA career, win championships and provide for them. My mom works two jobs. She does security and event staffing. My sister is a waitress. Anytime I'm down or don't want to work out, I remember our situation and what I've got to keep doing.

She told me, 'I didn't raise no quitter.' That coming from your mom, that's powerful words. That's all I needed to hear. That just drove me. I just took it in and ran with it.

My mom was a source of strength. She showed me by example that women, regardless of how difficult life may get, can do it all.

I want to thank my mom, Brenda Rose. My heart, the reason I play the way I play, just everything. Just knowing the days I don't feel right, going to practice, having a hard time, I think about her when she had to wake me up, go to work and make sure I was all right. Those were hard days.

Maybe there's a little girl who thinks she can be an Olympic athlete, and she sees all the things I struggled through to get here. Yeah, I didn't walk away with a medal or run away with a medal, but I think there's lessons to be learned when you win and lessons to be learned when you lose.

If there's no fire, there's no scream. If there's no scream, then no one hears you and no one comes to help you in the first place. The depth of my struggle has definitely determined the height of my success. To be able to teach my kids not just about success but about the struggle that comes with it.

Through everything I've gone through- and I've been everywhere, at the top of the world, in jail, hung over drunk - I never gave up my dream of winning a gold medal in the Olympics.

I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease but the doctrine of the strenuous life.

I look up to my parents because they were both following their dreams. But I also know the heartache and I saw how hard it is and that you really, really gotta love what you do.

I want a kid to look at me and say, 'You know what, this man had no chance in life, but he stayed in there, and he worked hard. He dedicated himself, and he did it'.

My idea behind the film was to show the struggles an athlete continually endures. There is always a story behind a successful sportsperson. In 'Soorma,' we have tried to recreate that.

When 'Soorma' was first discussed with me, 'Bhaag Milkha Bhaag' was fresh in my memory because when I saw it and saw the hard work that went into making Milkha Singh an iconic figure, I felt that a biopic should also be made highlighting the odds that I've fought to make it so far in life.

You've just got to keep going through the tough times and try your best every time you play.

I have an incredible role model in my mom. She was a single mother raising two kids in New York.

I been through some things but I worked hard to get to where I'm at.

No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle of life.

It was definitely some tough moments throughout my life, but I kind of stayed focused and came through the other end of the tunnel.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

My best career decision was probably not giving up when I wanted to. God as well as my family and friends were there for me during my toughest times.

Celebrate your family's bleakest moments and how your relatives overcame them. In doing so, you will encounter darkness, but you'll give your children the confidence that they, too, shall overcome.

The triumph can't be had without the struggle.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Nothing has been easy for me... I've always had to work for everything I've gotten and everything I've accomplished.

It gives one hope, this great strength of Africa.