Mohamed Salah Quotes

People said I had no heart, I was lackadaisical, the whole nine yards. But success is the best revenge, and I'm proving all of them wrong, even Evander Holyfield.

I named my first album 'The Sound of Revenge' because I wanted to get revenge on everyone who doubted me. But when I finally got revenge, I didn't enjoy it.

I've had a very unusual background in science - not the usual route of planning on being a scientist from age 3. I think my story shows that success is more about personal motivation and determination than it is about where you were born or what your economic status was.

I was told millions of times that I was never going to achieve what I set out to, but I decided to do it, and I did it.

Survival was my only hope, success my only revenge.

I love it when people doubt me. It makes me work harder to prove them wrong.

When people push back on you and don't think you can do it, and you struggle a little bit and wonder if they're right, it drives you to be successful and to be a great player.

The one way to get me to work my hardest was to doubt me.

I believe in hard work, but I believe in vindication as well. You have a few nightmares, I imagine, before you reach your dream.

I feel like I've been proving people wrong all my life.

I think it's so cool to just prove haters wrong. All you have to do is go out there and just fight.

I try and tell all the kids that I meet that hope to be amazing one day and be a professional athlete or a doctor or a lawyer or whatever they want to be. I tell them they can do all that because Tourette's won't stop them.

When people keep telling you that you can't do a thing, you kind of like to try it.

You actually can make it, no matter what. I truly am a firm believer in that. Eminem's living proof.

If I wasn't a champion, I'd still be in jail. That makes me try very hard.

I have this drive to prove people wrong - people who thought I should give up or assumed I'd never get anywhere.

I remember when I was in college, people told me I couldn't play in the NBA. There's always somebody saying you can't do it, and those people have to be ignored.

I haven't always been thrilled with my work. But the fear of not proving the people wrong who think you can't emerge from a franchise and do well, that's a very strong driving force.

I have to work extra hard because I am dyslexic. People said that I couldn't be an actress, but I'm proving them wrong. Acting has helped me overcome the challenge.

The people who influenced me most were the people who said I would never make it. They gave me a thirst for revenge.

People said I couldn't gig, and I proved them wrong.

One professor in college told me flat out I wasn't good enough to enter the creative writing program. I saved that letter and promised myself I would send it back to her when my first book came out.

I certainly feel I'm carrying the flag for Britain. I feel an honour in that but, at the same time, knowing my roots are in Africa, I'd like that to help motivate people from there. Even coming from a third world country, it is possible to get to the top of wherever they want to be.

Well, I believe that the depth of your struggle can determine the height of your success. I was inspired to come out of everything I've been through and end up in a place where I never thought that I would be.

I think that my biggest role models are people that have maybe struggled for a while and then finally gotten to their destination.