Winston Marshall Quotes

I think it's really easy to just get caught up in what everyone else is doing, so I think the most important thing to remember is to be really strong in your own shoes. That is the main thing for me. The one thing that kind of gets in my way sometimes is when I'm a little too aware of everybody else.

I've always done everything at my disposal to avoid labeling what I do, or to avoid being labeled myself.

You cannot live your life looking at yourself from someone else's point of view.

If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.

I have an aversion to being mislabeled. Here's a label I'd accept: I'm an 'individual.' I'm someone who can't follow, and doesn't want to lead.

If you let society and your peers define who you are, you're the less for it.

I try so hard to be true to myself. I hope I can help other girls realize that they don't have to do things just because everyone else is doing them.

For one thing I tend not to see myself in various moulds that people fit me into.

I am my own person with my own experiences, personality, and definition of success.

It's like everyone wants to categorize you as this and that until you've made your own mark.

If you can't pigeon-hole yourself, who can you pigeon-hole?

Nobody else can tell you what you are.

I think there's always a conflict within me about being comfortable and secure and then being an individual and fighting for what I want to be on an individual basis.

You cannot really be too concerned with what people think of you. You're on your own adventure of growth and discovery. So it's not always good to be who people think you are, especially if you subscribe to it as well ... which is easily done, because then you don't have to figure out who you are, you just ask somebody else.

You don't get to Define me, only I can Define me, all I wish from you is to recognize my Definition.

My experience is that I find myself having to constantly define myself to others, day-in, day-out. The quote that's helped me the most through that is from Toni Morrison's "Beloved" where she says, "Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined" - so I find myself defining myself for other people lest I be defined by others and stuck into some box where I don't particularly belong.

...that I alone hold the definition of what I am.

There are two metaphors for Mario the person and not Mario the footballer. I think I am a man, but I don't believe I need to say it. But I could also be Peter Pan because I do things my own way and I am free. So, yes, maybe I should say that I am Peter Pan - although I am much more of a man.

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

I was kind of smart enough when I was young, 14 or 15 years old, to realize that if you're ever going to do anything and step out of the shadow of your own dad - not only in hockey, but in life itself - you're going to have to learn you're Brett and not 'Bobby's son.'

It's lame to say that I'm a normal girl, but I think I am.

Keep your sense of self; don't get caught up in what people want you to be.

I never let track define me. That's something that's really important to me.

I am who I am.

We have to wake up. We have to refuse to be a clone.