Samoa Joe Quotes

Don't sit around and wait for the opportunities to come. You have to get up and make those opportunities come.

I'm the kind of person who doesn't wait for opportunities to fall from the sky.

Sometimes I call directors. Sometimes I just meet with them. It just happens. It's not that I'm pushy. It comes naturally. But I go ahead. I don't stay in my armchair, waiting for the phone to ring.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.

Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.

I do less waiting by the phone than anyone I know in the business. I don't wait for a job. I just go on to my own work.

Sometimes I wake up in the morning and there's nothing doing, so I decide to make something happen by lunch.

Life just doesn't hand you things. You have to get out there and make things happen. that's the exciting part.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

If the opportunities are not being presented to me, I'm going to take the reins and do it. Brit Marling was not waiting for the phone to ring. The great roles are not there to be had. If you have an idea, do it.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

If you want something, you can't wait for someone to make it happen for you.

I'm a great believer in not sitting around waiting for the right part to come around, but jumping in and building it for yourself.

If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

If you really want to do something, go and do it; don't just talk about it.

If you want to do something, you'll find the space to do it.

You don't know when things are going to happen, so I don't think you should be waiting around for them, so I'm interested in making stuff and being in that stuff - that's what my focus is.

Sometimes you have to make your own opportunities, and that's why I'm on TV. I wasn't going to sit around anymore, waiting for the damn phone to ring. I had to create my own place - I've always done that.

Be a doer, not a stewer.

Be a doer and not a critic.

I think a lot of young people have incredible ideas and incredible insights, but sometimes they wait before they go give their life to something. What I did was just to start a little earlier.

If you're not actively involved in getting what you want, you don't really want it.

I believe you have to make things happen.

One has to take initiative in life to achieve what he or she wants.