Samuel Eto'o Quotes

I stayed true to my dreams and, eventually, they came true.

Nothing was ever handed to me. My hope is that when people read my story, it will inspire them to reach for their goals and not give up. The real story is this: if I can do it, you can, too.

If a small-town boy like me who bagged groceries was able to make his dreams come true, you can too.

I didn't corner the market on great stories. I'm not the only one who can do something like work at a grocery store and then win a Super Bowl. Other people can do it. You hope people will see that and say, 'Hey, that will be me.' They're going to chase after it like I did. And they're going to be the next one.

Whenever I have asked something from God and worked hard for it, I have always got it, be it my Indian citizenship or my weight loss.

God helped me with the desire to be great and the discipline to get myself ready, so I am an example of what can happen if you really put your mind to something and work hard for it.

Prayer and hard work are a pretty good one-two punch to get things done.

As I was growing up, I did a lot of talent shows. I won fifteen Sunday nights straight in a series of talent shows in Macon. I showed up the sixteenth night, and they wouldn't let me go on any more. Whatever success I had was through the help of the good Lord.

If four things are followed - having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance - then anything can be achieved.

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.

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.

During the off-season when you see other people playing in the Super Bowl, you wonder, and you say to yourself, 'Are you ever gonna get there and see what it feels like?' And it pushes you a little bit harder during that off-season to work to try to get there the following year.

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

Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Dreams do come true. If anyone's proof of that, it's me.

I wasn't the brightest kid in school. I was a backbencher troubling the frontbencher, and eventually I failed in my 10th grade. But then in higher secondary, there were only three people who got first division in arts, and I was one of them. So this tells you, where you put your mind and heart into, that's where you go.

I'm an enormous fan of people who have had a lot of faith in themselves, and been on a tremendous journey.

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.

Encouragement from my high school teacher Patty Hart said 'you need to focus and theater might be your route out of here.' I created the program, went to college and graduate school and now here I am.

What inspired me to work so hard and to maintain my determination was seeing my mother. She was an immigrant and was struggling in America to make it by; that inspired me to work hard.

Anything that is worth struggling for is worth singing for.

You can see that all these people who did really great things failed six times or didn't get going until they were much older. I think that's much more instructive and educational.

Do all you can to make your dreams come true.

I strongly believe that through dedication and perseverance, one can overcome adversity to achieve success. It is a privilege to accept membership in the Horatio Alger Association, an organization which promotes this principle.