LeSean McCoy Quotes

All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific.

A lot of people have wondered what I've been up to. I retired from my career after 24 years. My feeling was that it was time to play my biggest part - Myself!

I think when I was in my early twenties and middle twenties I didn't even know I wasn't living up to my potential. A couple of friends told me I wasn't and told me to get my act together, and it made a huge impact on me.

I have to be self-conscious of what I'm trying to do with my life.

I'm conscious to know who I am as a young man and what I want to be off the field and how I want to impact other people.

As I learn more about myself, I think people learn more about me as well. It seems to correlate that way. I learn how to represent myself more as it goes on.

The holidays are a time of reflection, and I think it becomes really clear in people's minds around this time of year what they want to get out of life, who they want to spend their life with, and what kind of person they want to be.

A lot of time when you're out injured is spent with internal reflection and kind of looking at yourself in the mirror and deciding who you want to be and where you fit in.

I feel it is important to remember who you are if you want to make it in life - and I try not to forget that fact even for a moment.

When you try to build an identity based on one idea, the easy part is to stick with the good things that you do.

When I came to Cambridge, I was involved in the ward for a little bit, but I did have a very gradual process of trying to work out what I thought a good life consisted of.

Everything about who I am, negative and positive, is what shaped me.

Everybody has to know where they're coming from, what they're doing, why they're doing it, who they are. These are essentials.

I'm going forward with my plans for life. I'm looking at things not only basketball-wise, but personal-wise.

I have had fun being who I became, so to speak.

I am still a person with a sense of superficiality that I'm trying to challenge.

I'm starting to think about my life, thinking about where I'm going to be in three years time: who I'm going to be with, where I'm going to be situated myself.

I'm not interested in nostalgia; I'm interested in who I am.

Everyone should have a philosophy for living better.

My goal in life is to make decisions that minimize regrets. I don't regret anything I've done.

I think people change, but the media, they never allowed me to change. They never allowed me to be a better person.

The real duty of man is not to extend his power or multiply his wealth beyond his needs, but to enrich and enjoy his imperishable possession: his soul.

I auditioned in Chicago for Juilliard and didn't get in. I was basically living in a back room of my parents' house, paying rent and not doing anything with my life. I'd like to say it was patriotic to join the Marines, but it was also that I was doing nothing honorable with my life and spending too much time at McDonald's.

The obsessions we have are pretty much the same our whole lives. Mine are people, the human condition, life.

Not only does travel give us a new system of reckoning, it also brings to the fore unknown aspects of our own self. Our consciousness being broadened and enriched, we shall judge ourselves more correctly.