Park Bo-gum Quotes

Basketball has given me everything.

I work hard and I will always work hard. But I feel very lucky with the way that it has all come together.

It is impossible to count the blessings I have received over my years at Microsoft. I am humbled by the professionalism and generosity of everyone I have had the good fortune to work with at this awesome company.

When you have to do all the more crappy jobs before, you appreciate all the good work that comes out of that. There are many girls who immediately have a top model career, and there are lots of models who are doing things that aren't as exciting as doing big campaigns and beautiful magazines.

It's funny - when I first started as an actor, obviously there were long periods of being idle and all you want to do is work. So if I ever get the compulsion to feel like I should complain or feel like I want to take a break, I just remember how I was before and be very grateful for it.

I try to be professional; I try to be on time. I don't take anything I have for granted. That's my definition of success.

I feel really humbled and really grateful to have the opportunities that I've had over the past couple of years to work with some amazing people. I think, at this point, I just want to put my head down and grind and do honest work.

If you want to be real about it, the fact that any actor books a job is a one-in-a-million shot. I've been so fortunate to have worked on even a few films, so, no, I don't wake up feeling bad.

I'm just happy that I get the opportunity to do the things on the court that I do in practice.

I'm fully aware of how lucky I am to do the work I do. I work really, really hard, and there are a lot of privileges and perks that come with the job.

I look back and see what life could have been if I hadn't applied myself in basketball, and I'm really thankful for every experience I've had.

It's good to be rewarded with all the training and emotions I've gone through.

Working hard and appreciating the accomplishments that have come from that keeps me grounded.

I know I am extraordinarily lucky to be doing what I am doing. I have worked hard along the way and I have been blessed too. I have had a great life.

We weren't treated as prima-donnas. We had to roll up our sleeves and graft with the groundsman. Kids don't have to do anymore. That makes you appreciate things when it turns in your favour and you become a successful professional.

A lot of my life happened in great, wonderful bursts of good fortune, and then I would race to be worthy of it.

I believed and still believe that success is only part of the story. It makes you want to get better and better so as not to let yourself down and not to let the people down who like what you do and you don't waste your success.

I had the good fortune of speaking with Orson Wells many decades ago and he said 'Success is primarily luck anyway.' And I have been very lucky. Of course, Orson Wells was enormously talented and brilliant - so who am I to argue with him!

I's taken me a great deal to get here. I don't plan on missing anything.

Our publicist at Warner Brothers is a young guy who has worked so hard for seven years with us and when we saw him backstage he broke down and cried. He couldn't believe it happened. It was seeing him so overcome when we realised how much it really meant.

I was so driven that sometimes you don't recognise all the good things that are happening to you.

I am so thrilled to be nominated for something I loved working on every single day.

The harder I work, the luckier I get.

When you get as lucky as I got, you have to work as hard as possible to earn that luck.

I feel like I've gotten so lucky and gotten to do such cool things with such cool folks. It's really great. You definitely want that momentum to keep going, for sure.