Young Buck Quotes

I didn't come into the music business to make money. I came into it to be a success. Of course, if you're successful, you'll earn money and I was happy to receive it.

Go to the young conductors who are not making it, and you will hear how we shouldn't push ourselves or sell ourselves, how they don't have the right connections and the right opportunities. Well, you can be sure they've had the opportunities.

My principal once told me that I was a penny waiting for change. But I suspect that I irritated him probably because I was making more money than he was.

I never deviated from my grim determination to someday have all the money I needed and wanted.

I don't think it changes who you are inside. But when you have a lot of money, it makes a lot of things easier. That's why everyone wants to be successful.

I never thought about money; otherwise, I would have left aged 26 when Real Madrid and Barcelona wanted me.

Everyone keeps telling me how young I am, but if the right opportunity comes up, I'm ready to manage.

There's some days you start to think, 'When is my chance going to come?' As a professional, you always have that at the back of your mind.

If you work hard, no career should be off-limits.

Football has set me up to provide for my family, it has allowed me a better opportunity to do things in my life that track may have not.

For the moment, I haven't ended my career. I'm young. There are still a lot of goals.

Money doesn't drive me.

If money was my only motivation, I would organize myself differently.

I have always been ambitious about getting a U.S. role, and if ever there is some frustration, it is still encouraging to get close to big roles because it implies there is somewhere to go.

I don't make money on the road, and so there's less and less incentive for me to do it when I don't have that adolescent desire for whatever it is, glory or fame.

Unless you are an enormous name, you never stop auditioning.

I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.

I've just been lucky. I'd like to have more choices, and I'd like to have a leading part.

Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.

Madonna had to break through; I knew she was going to make it big, because I could see how ambitious she was, in a very genuine and sweet way.

It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.

I'm just like any person who is coaching in this league, I'm just looking for an opportunity, that's all.

My great fear has always been complete and utter failure. Hence, you see, all the dispossessed people in my fiction, and why I try to earn as much money as I can. It's a defense. I don't enjoy it or do anything with it.

I expect if you are going to come out of the shadows, then you're going to want to have some type of hope in the future that you're going to improve your life and, yes, accomplish that American Dream.

I tell people, 'It's just like a cliche, but it's true: In Hollywood, dreams can come true.'