Lou Williams Quotes

I admire Brad Pitt, honestly, just because of how he started and the obstacles he had to overcome to have the career that he's had.

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

I am extremely proud of my rags-to-riches story. It's fun to be a misfit or an underdog if you acknowledge your gifts and befriend your obstacles.

I come from a very rough background, and I'm saying that if you work hard and dedicate yourself that you can make it, too.

I been through some things but I worked hard to get to where I'm at.

I came from nothing and achieved humungous fame and fortune. But I worked hard. I had discipline and determination. I had that ice in me.

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

I have been passed over on some things because people didn't think I was edgy enough. But the people who took those gigs are gone now, and I am still here.

I take my hat off to my friend, Mark Wahlberg, because I know that it took him a long time to make 'The Fighter', and he overcame a lot of obstacles to do it, and now the film is an unqualified success.

I've worked hard over the years, I've been injured and I've worked hard through it, and I've made it.

I never wanted to be a statistic. I never wanted to be that cat who tried and never made it.

My family and I had to overcome a lot to get where we are today.

I've had the school of hard knocks, and I've worked my way up to be the governor of this great state of Connecticut.

I'm living proof you can excel regardless of where you come from.

I wasn't one of the ones voted most likely to succeed when I was at drama school, but I persevered and concentrated on the acting rather than going to the right parties and getting the right agent. Eventually, after ten years, it paid off.

I think that my biggest role models are people that have maybe struggled for a while and then finally gotten to their destination.

The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

My goal is to live out my dreams, to have a long NBA career, win championships and provide for them. My mom works two jobs. She does security and event staffing. My sister is a waitress. Anytime I'm down or don't want to work out, I remember our situation and what I've got to keep doing.

I graduated in biology by overcoming an incredibly impossible science workload in college. The knowledge does nothing for me, but knowing I achieved that makes me feel like I can achieve anything because those science classes in biology are just impossible.

I had no money, no training facilities, no snow, no ski jumps, no trainer, but I still managed to ski jump for my country - and getting there was my gold medal.

You can make something out of nothing. I proved that with my career, making it out of the city that I'm from.

Although I have never won a major trophy, I consider myself a winner because I helped Fiorentina to compete with the big boys.

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.

There's a lot of kids just like me growing up in the Philippines, so I don't want them to give up. So listen to your parents, work hard and you can achieve so much.