Damon Dash Quotes

I'm not a guy who always complains or talks about getting carries.

I feel like I was born and bred to stay self-motivated. I'm not one of those people who ho-hums and feels sorry for himself when something's bad.

I don't like to complain.

I'm not too worried about that. I am a big believer in modeling.

I guess more players lick themselves that are ever licked by an opposing team. The first thing any man has to know is how to handle himself.

Long-term, we must begin to build our internal strengths. It isn't just skills like computer technology. It's the old-fashioned basics of self-reliance, self-motivation, self-reinforcement, self-discipline, self-command.

Since I've started fighting it has taught me a lot about self respect, self confidence and self control.

There's a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.

I never let myself get desperate.

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.

I think I have a good head on my shoulders.

I'm not running around as a continual ray of sunshine. It's just I don't believe in wasting time feeling sorry for myself. Get over it.

I'm not a negative person.

In any situation, I'm going to be good.

If you are going to talk negative about a place, you're almost throwing yourself out to begin with because golf is a mental game.

Success, they taught me, is built on the foundation of courage, hard-work and individual responsibility. Despite what some would have us believe, success is not built on resentment and fears.

What you say about this world I do not quite agree with; I think it a very good world, and only requires a person to be reasonable in his expectations, and not to trust too much to others.

I think that when people who've had success from a young age go through a train-wreck cycle, it's usually because they're working on someone else's terms, so they feel the need to rebel. But when it's something you've built, you don't have that same kind of resentment or angstiness. But it's also difficult to keep those standards for yourself.

It's true that being in an individual sport, you have to be a little bit selfish.

I'm highly critical of myself. There's not something someone else might say that makes me feel I need to be motivated in a different way. I'm a self-motivated guy.

Over the course of the game, you can't let negativity get in your head. Any time a guy playing negative upon emotion, it's not going to be a great day.

I'm a strong person, and when I am not in the team, I can motivate myself to keep focused and be prepared for when I get called on.

You need to be competitive, but a lot of that you can internalize and use that as motivation to drive you. You do not need to show it all the time.

My mentality is my biggest strength.