Christian Laettner Quotes

When I hear people boo, that just makes me want to go out there and work harder.

I grew up with an older brother who was always stronger and faster and better than me at everything, but I was close enough in age to try and compete, so we had a competitive childhood.

I struggled to get through high school. I didn't get to go to college. But it made me realize you can do anything if you want to bad enough.

In spite of my lack of education, I didn't lack direction.

If the manager thinks there is another player better than you, he is going to play, and this is the way. You have to try to improve and keep fighting and try to change the manager's mind.

I've always gone through adversity in this game, and I've always overcome it. My middle school coach told me that I was probably a better hockey player than a football player, and that still drives me every day.

TNA didn't use me, but I got hungrier to wrestle. The struggle made me better.

I've always had a chip on my shoulder. It kind of drives me. It's something that allows me to train harder, train longer, work better.

I wasn't a kid who won every tournament I was playing, and I think that helped me - it motivated me a lot to know what it felt like not to win.

With a defeat, when you lose, you get up, you make it better, you try again. That's what I do in life, when I get down, when I get sick, I don't want to just stop. I keep going and I try to do more. Everyone always says never give up but you really have to take that to heart and really do never definitely give up. Keep trying.

Anyone that dares begrudge what I have today, just better get off their duff and do something about it.

Beast Mode doesn't make excuses. It doesn't complain. Whatever you're doing, go out there and get it done. Keep pushing. If I have a bad game, I think about what I have to do to return to form. Figure it out, go to sleep, and wake up a new man.

The more criticism I get, the more it gives me a stronger urge to win. So I try harder.

You just go out and compete and try to earn whatever you can. I'm looking to get better every single day I set foot on this field.

I am living proof that the American dream still exists. It is still alive and well. There is only one trick, you have to be willing to roll up your sleeves and work very, very hard.

Everyone has egos, and you want to come out on top. You have to pick yourself up and go at it again.

I'll always use the negativity as more motivation to work even harder and become even stronger.

If somebody says no to you, or if you get cut, Michael Jordan was cut his first year, but he came back and he was the best ever. That is what you have to have. The attitude that I'm going to show everybody, I'm going to work hard to get better and better.

I want to be an example of a guy who made something of himself out of nothing. A guy who overcame the odds of a tough childhood, who worked hard, who didn't let his surroundings get the best of him and lead him to jail or the graveyard. Where I ended up - being a comedian, a TV star, and a movie actor - might be unique, but my story is not.

When you fail you learn from the mistakes you made and it motivates you to work even harder.

I'd always much rather be second choice on anything because it makes you work harder.

A competitor will find a way to win. Competitors take bad breaks and use them to drive themselves just that much harder. Quitters take bad breaks and use them as reasons to give up. It's all a matter of pride.

Some people are born with very little; some are fortunate enough to have it all. When I grew up, we didn't have much. I had to hustle to get what I wanted... but I had that hunger for more. I didn't always make the right choices, but I learned from my mistakes.

Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.