Missy Franklin Quotes

The only pressure you put on yourself is the one you want to. No one else can pressurise you.

If you let other people do it for you, they will do it to you.

Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

I should have been trying to build a career, rather than leaving it in the hands of somebody else.

You have to create your life. You have to carve it, like a sculpture.

If you don't run your own life, somebody else will.

Control your own destiny or someone else will.

God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.

How one life turns out is not dependent on what people do to us or what they don't do for us.

I don't have any regrets. I made all my own decisions.

I feel you're in charge of your own situation.

Everyone has to be in charge of their own destiny.

I'm not one to fall back into the corner and put my fate in someone else's hands. I tend to believe anyone in my position would do the same thing.

Whether people agree with you or not, take an active role in what happens in your life.

Write your own part. It is the only way I've gotten anywhere. It is much harder work, but sometimes you have to take destiny into your own hands.

You play a part in every aspect of your life going the way you want or not going the way that you want. It has very little to do with other people.

I don't care what other people say. The important pressure, you put on yourself. The pressure that others put on you? I ignore it.

I am a leader, I am not a follower. I create my own path, and that way, I cannot blame anyone else if I do not succeed.

I don't like asking people for things, so if I can do it myself, that's the mindset I have. My dad is very much a do-it-yourself kind of person, so I had a strong sense of independence.

I've always been very independent; I take care of myself.

I can perform whenever I want to, without the pressure of having to.

I'm already self-motivated, so I don't really pay attention what people are saying.

If I produce myself, I'm gonna exploit no one - just myself.

There's no better way to be than depending on yourself.

Irish people are pragmatic. They understand that nobody is going to fix our problems but ourselves.