Yvonne Orji Quotes

Most of the time, I do what I'm offered, but after I worked for it. I think I try much harder for the things that scare me and inspire me. The things that scare and inspire you are things that are different from what you did before.

You're always just trying to create opportunities and be ready when those opportunities present themselves. I can't look at anybody and think 'I want to be Damian Lewis' - I'd be setting myself up for failure.

Regardless of who you are, what sport you chose, or how much success you achieved, playing the game is all about getting you ready for life.

We want perfection without practice. Yet everyone is harmed if no one is trained for the future.

It's not that hard to be good, you can be good off raw talent. But I feel like it's that extra step, doing work and putting a body of work in and doing things when nobody else is watching. When nobody else is telling you to do it, you're pushing yourself to do it.

I try my best when I get an opportunity and my number gets called.

I think a lot of where I find my confidence is knowing I've prepared as well as I could have.

I was very insecure. I figured the only thing I can do is just work harder than everybody else and be useful. So I would anticipate when a client would need a cup of tea. I would anticipate when they wanted to rewind the tape. I would anticipate when they were going to do a vocal.

Step by step I'm getting my opportunities and what's important for me is to be prepared to show my best whenever possible.

It is not often that a man can make opportunities for himself. But he can put himself in such shape that when or if the opportunities come he is ready.

I believe that you tend to create your own blessings. You have to prepare yourself so that when opportunity comes, you're ready.

You will stand out if you do your part well.

It's inspiring for me to know that you've got to step up your game.

In order to get to where I want to be, I have to do the right things off the field, first.

I'm glad I didn't get to WWE until I did because I was more complete at 32 than I was at 25. It all happens for a reason.

I always challenge myself to do something better, and people in the industry appreciate that.

I prepared myself for years to be where I'm at now, and I try to focus on the here and now.

You know the famous quote, sometimes you have to be ready so you don't have to get ready. I do a lot of things that, it's like, off the camera, that a lot of people don't see me do.

For the last two years, since I left IMPACT in 2018, I've spent basically the last two years just trying to be healthy, be strong, be ready for when that opportunity comes and I sort of felt like that's what I've been putting into the universe.

I knew I needed to find a way to stay out of trouble and to have good grades to be able to stand out.

I think you have to dig deep in every performance.

Nothing bad can happen if you train your butt off and make the right decisions and surround yourself with the right people.

If you are not fighting and not training, it does have an effect on you no matter who you are.

Nothing about my life is lucky. Nothing. A lot of grace, a lot of blessings, a lot of divine order, but I don't believe in luck. For me, luck is preparation meeting the moment of opportunity. There is no luck without you being prepared to handle that moment of opportunity. Every single thing that has ever happened in your life is preparing you for the moment that is to come.

You have to be eligible for luck to strike, and I think that's a matter of education and preparation, and character and all the other solid attributes that sometimes people laugh at.