Baron Davis Quotes

You can't start at the top.

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 am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.

When you live in the shadow of a big tree, you have to run twice as fast to get into the sunlight.

There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.

The painter Sidney Nolan once told me I tried too hard. Advice I've been trying hard to follow ever since.

When I was young, I would try to give the right answers. 'I'm going to try to slide.' But at the end of the day, I finally realized that I am going to do whatever it takes. I'm going to leave everything out there.

I'm just going to keep working to show people what I can do.

I started at the bottom. Nobody has given me anything.

I'm about working, getting better, and proving people wrong.

I'm looking to try to do more out there and just taking advantage of the opportunities that I've been given.

If you're humble and hardworking, opportunities will arise for you.

It is not ease, but effort-not facility, but difficulty, makes men. There is, perhaps, no station in life in which difficulties have not to be encountered and overcome before any decided measure of success can be achieved.

Don't ever give up what you want in life. The struggle is worth it.

The elevator to success is broken, take the stairs.

Work hard with passion and courage. Life is a marathon of contribution. You really must work hard to accomplish something... Find your passion and get good at it.

Keep grindin' boy, your life can change in one year, And even when it's dark out, the sun is shining somewhere

The trouble with fulfilling your ambitions is you think you will be transformed into some sort of archangel and you're not. You still have to wash your socks.

You long for success? Start at the bottom; dig down.

What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place...The old humility was a spur that prevented a man from stopping; not a nail in his boot that prevented him from going on. For the old humility made a man doubtful about his efforts, which made him work harder. But the new humility makes a man doubtful about his aims, which will make him stop working altogether.

Your dreams are ballbusters; they're not the yellow brick road.

The ladder of success isn't a ladder. It's a series of steps with leaps interspersed along the way.

Fight for your dreams, and your dreams will fight for you.

If we think it takes a lot of effort and hard work to get what we want, then our life is going to be about struggle.

Failure turns into success. It looks like it happens overnight to other people, but it's just one person's determination to get past a certain goal. Everybody thinks it's an overnight success, but it's not. It's something someone has been working very, very hard on, and more than likely, has been too embarrassed to tell anybody. No one really wants to show other people their failures. They want to show their success.