Bella Thorne Quotes

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.

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

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.

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.

If I had not been dyslexic, I wouldn't have needed sports. I would have been like every other kid. Instead, I found my one thing, and I was never going to let go of it. That little dyslexic kid is always in the back of your head.

I have been underestimated for decades. I have done very well that way.

I am not merely a baseball player. I am a black man who has done what he wants, gotten what he wanted, and will continue to get it.

I beat the odds, and I beat the odds so many times.

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

We had so many obstacles. We had a lot of sexism and misogyny, there's a lot of things that were against us. But we've just pushed forward and we showed everybody.

Just as much as you need the people who love you, you need the people who doubt you - to prove them wrong.

There's nothing that special about me. I'm just a hard-working guy, I'm dyslexic, I had to overcome a lot of things like that.

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.

When I was young, a lot of things were closed off to me. I was always told, 'Don't do this, you can't do that' - instead of stopping me, it made me think, 'I can do that, I must do that.'

When I got home from hospital, and I was in a wheelchair in a plaster body cast, an aeroplane flew over. And I thought to myself, 'Well, if I can't walk, then I might as well fly.' And I was lifted into the aeroplane for the first time. And when I took the controls of the aeroplane, I knew this was something I could do. I thought, 'I can fly.'

You know, it sounds corny, but I believe in myself. And I work hard.

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 think it's a great thing to have failed in life and then pulled yourself up by the boot straps and actually done something, because then you appreciate it more.

I support anyone finding their worth despite being told they can't do something.

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 always wanted to be somebody. If I made it, it's half because I was game enough to take a lot of punishment along the way and half because there were a lot of people who cared enough to help me.

I had to overcome challenge after challenge in order to take my life from nothing to living my dreams.

I am proof that one person can rise above any challenge, and if I can, then so will others if they are given the chance.

I admire Brad Pitt, honestly, just because of how he started and the obstacles he had to overcome to have the career that he's had.