Patrick Vieira Quotes

I came into this league when I was 20, and I didn't know if I was going to make it.

Reach for it. Push yourself as far as you can.

Like anyone who goes to college, you're leaving a familiar surrounding and a comfortable environment and your friends and everything, and you're starting fresh. It can be pretty daunting.

I started my career without fans.

Everything I do now is a first.

I'm the kind of person that, if someone says, 'Oh yeah, you can't do that,' I want to then go do it.

I guess I have to prove myself all over again, even if it's to the world. I don't have a problem doing that.

When I dropped out of school at 19 to start my first job in Hollywood, I didn't know anything, and I had no idea where I'd end up. Thankfully, I was attached to some smart and forgiving people who let me learn under them.

If I'm Colin Kaepernick I have to prove myself. I would say, 'I would love the opportunity to show that I am a championship-winning quarterback again, and I understand that I am not going to be handed anything and that I would love the opportunity to come back.' If he said that it would open the ears of a lot of teams.

A lot of people always question, 'What else can she do, what else can she do?' And I'm going to show you.

Every time I go out there, I have something to prove. Something more, something different.

When I first started, I wasn't really aware of anything in the industry or aware of who I really was. I just put my music out there and tried to get as many people to hear it as possible.

When I first moved to Los Angeles I came down there on a wing and a prayer in a way. I had about six weeks worth of money to make it there and that was just from doing a couple of episodes of the X-Files just to finance that trip. I got there and it is either you got to hit it or you got to go and, thankfully, I found a job.

To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn.

To start at a new place is always to feel incompetent & unwanted.

You have to throw yourself into a situation of trust with these things, especially that first day when you don't know someone and you're on a massive Disney Hollywood movie set.

There was this funny thing of anything could happen now that we realized everything had.

I know all one can know when one knows nothing.

Every wave is new until it breaks.

Yesterday was a closed book, tomorrow, however, was another story.

I have nothing. My model is I have nothing figured out, and I'm starting with some little nugget and hoping that it will talk back to me enough to let it grow.

I did not know how to paint or even what to paint, but I knew I had to begin.

Starting anything is a roller coaster with the highest highs and lowest lows.

As soon as you feel comfortable, that's when it's time to start over.