Sam Hinkie Quotes

If one day I start thinking about playing abroad, money won't be the reason.

Other people gotta be told when to go to the gym, what to work out, what to work on, what to do. For me, it was always my own self-motivation of maybe just wanting to make it out of Compton. I was like that with everything in my life.

I ended up breaking a bone in my foot early in my rookie season, and honestly, it was kind of a blessing. I had so much free time while being laid up that I put a lot of time in on film to understand the game from a different vantage point.

I'm the person that's been that young, spunky kid that wanted to beat the top guys.

Who can't relate to a story of a dreamer who, against all odds, is going to make something of himself that is completely unexpected?

I was always inspired by the people I was around, like the older people spitting in my area or in Northampton, but I just always wanted to be better than the people that was around me.

I played very well in AC Milan, but I had two years of injury problems. I needed to change team and the city for my mentality.

I believe that no matter how many mistakes we’ve made; how badly we’ve really, really screwed up; how old, worn out, or dejected we’ve become; as long as there is true, steadfast ambition, all of us have an opportunity for greatness.

the only revenge worth having is success.

I've always been about setting goals. Then when I had a near death experience at nineteen, it made it even more important to strive to achieve certain things.

Perfection does not exist -- you can always do better and you can always grow.

Let others lead small lives, but not you

Only those with great ambitions know what great fears drive them forward.

I should figure out why I'm so much more interested in doing something that I think is really hard. But, somehow, the thing that is hard for me feels more noble.

Success is not handed to you. You must work hard for it and you must never dishonor what you’ve achieved.

You've already been at the bottom. Why don't you go for the top?

Michael Vick is a work in progress. I think he really is wanting to do the right thing. I think the Philadelphia Eagles have been a great organization for him. He's had some ups and downs. He still has to learn to not put himself in, maybe bad situations, in terms of personal life and friends, and that kind of thing. But all in all, I think he's growing every day.

I always want to do the best that I can with the opportunities that God has given me. The only way that you can possibly do that is to give yourself a chance to go as high as you possibly can. If you don't have the confidence in yourself and you don't have the desire to compete and move ahead, than you start to get stagnant....If I fall a little bit short, then I'm still farther than if I hadn't reached at all.

I respect anybody that's doin' their thing, and doin' better than I'm doin, or at least tryin'. I really don't need to hate on the next person. We're all just tryin' to get one thing at the end of the day, everybody's tryin' to get money and be successful, and just enjoy what they do.

I will get stronger. I will return.

If you focus on success, you’ll have stress. But if you pursue excellence, success will be guaranteed.

My new question was, What do you do when your dreams come true? My answer was: Find new ones.

We are not entitled to success we have to earn it

I don't know what drives me to succeed. I know I want to always do the best I can. I never was like that as a kid.

I was actually grateful for being arrested, for the judge that promised me that I would go to prison if I didn't stay clean, because I listened to him and something clicked. Those two years when we were making album "Ultra" and I had to go back and forth to court to prove to the judge that I'd stayed clean, it gave me this time to suddenly realize, "Oh, I can do this, I can crawl my way back, I can get better. And I do want to be here."