Steve Wilkos Quotes

When the time came for me to go to college, there was only one scholarship that my high school offered at the time and I didn't win that one, but that didn't stop me. I went on to college anyway. I worked my way through it and paid my student loans for 11 years.

Nothing has been handed to me my entire life. You have to go there and take it. My mom taught me that.

This is my journey. If I fall, I have to pick myself up. If I'm not getting the playing time I want, it's up to me to figure out why.

I grew up working hard to earn everything I had.

I'm constantly reminding myself that the world owes us nothing. We have to make our way and we have to work hard, persevere and make our own way in the world because the world isn't waiting for us, so let's let the world know we are here.

Work hard for what you want because it won't come to you without a fight. You have to be strong and courageous and know that you can do anything you put your mind to. If somebody puts you down or criticizes you, just keep on believing in yourself and turn it into something positive.

I mean, it's the life lessons that I suppose you learn that nobody gets a free ride and that you do the best you can with the means that you can and try to open yourself to as much knowledge and all that that you can.

From an early age my mother told me that there were so many of us that if I was to get anything in life I would have to get it myself. So I did.

You can make your own way. It's about getting out there and not letting rejection get you down.

I never felt entitled to anything. I'm the hardest worker I know.

I did everything I could to stay in college and pay my own way, so I think that if success hadn't come so quickly, I would still be pursuing it.

I worked hard to get where I am. And I started with nothing.

For me to get through the toughest periods in my life, I had to look within to find the energy to do it. I don't give up. Never have. Never will.

It was good to learn so early. They're not going to be kind to you. You have to do it and get on, and then gulp down and get better.

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.

I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.

In spite of my lack of education, I didn't lack direction.

I am the product of hustlers who taught me how to do it. They gave me a hustler's ambition. Not a bad thing to get from your parents. But hustling only gets you so far. You have to trust yourself. And you have to be ready to fall on your face and be okay when it happens.

Anything is possible. My background is a bad background, but a lot of people said I couldn't do it. You can do anything if you put your mind to it.

I've never been spoon-fed for my whole career, I have always done it the hard way as a player and a manager.

I struggle with my training sometimes. The thing I look at is if you keep getting up and moving forward, you'll be successful. That's the way I've lived my life. I'm not going to stop doing something because somebody says it's time. I'm going to stop it when my body says it's over or the fans say, 'we're done watching you.'

I'm just one of those people that, if there's a problem, I want to work through it. Push through it and do everything I can. Anything.

I thought about the problems I had growing up: how I prioritised football over school, but people were telling me I wouldn't make it, that it wasn't possible. The thing is, I did make it, thanks to my own will and determination and the help of some people I had around me in my hometown.

My father worked with a first-grade education in this country and managed every single day without a hiccup.

I'm just grateful that I didn't give up on myself and I just kept plugging at it.