Amar'e Stoudemire Quotes

I wasn't always someone who was talented. It was more that I was loud and loved a challenge.

I can't say I'm surprised I was successful. I was determined - and I got it.

I always follow my heart and my guts. If I want to do something, I have immense belief in hard work and myself. I have it in me to do well anywhere and in anything I do. I have a deep desire to excel in everything I do.

I always believed that I could make it or I would never have spent so many years trying to get here.

If you take the autobiographies of great sports people, they are almost always the same. They start with zero; they are always ambitious, know what they want to do in life, and have the confidence to do it.

I was born into a poor family but my family's good. I'm good and I'm going to do something great.

I think anything's possible for me with my attitude and my desire to want to get better every single day as a person and as a basketball player, I think anything's possible for me.

I think," he said, "I think, if you want thousands, you have to fight for one.

Work ethic, confidence, a laser focus and commitment to accomplish a goal that most people can never imagine.

His answer to every problem, every setback was “I will work harder!” —which he had adopted as his personal motto.

Confidence makes you willing to try harder and attracts the kind of support from others that makes "winning" possible.

You've got to believe in yourself, you've got to have a very clear vision, and you've got have the fire in the belly and go out and not be shy with working because it takes a lot of work.

Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.

I don't know if this is why everything has worked so well and I'm not sure I'd recommend this kind of thinking to anyone else, but I've always known I'd be successful in acting. I have certainly worked for it.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

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

I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it.

But I've never once thought that I wouldn't get back, as if you do think like that, then you're in trouble.

Going in, I knew I wasn't one of the top ones, because I didn't even make the pre-season All-American team. That shows you what people thought of me right there, so I knew I had to go to work.

There've been many a season where I couldn't get work, and I think that you learn character development and you learn how to really want what you do in life when you can't really do it.

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

We want people who come from humble backgrounds and have a need to win.

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.

I understood early on that I was not the best-looking girl in the room. But I knew my advantage was a hard work ethic and I was ambitious: I knew I could be a great model.

Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism. It is the belief that problems can be solved, differences resolved. It is a type of confidence. And it is fragile. It can be blackened by fear and superstition.