Kevin Anderson Quotes

The world was not supportive. They look at me as a joke for 13 to 14 years until I could prove feasibility; then I had competitors. Those that laughed at me became my competitors.

During my career several people have tried to push me out the door... Nobody has succeeded yet.

Everyone has egos, and you want to come out on top. You have to pick yourself up and go at it again.

I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.

Tennis is like, it gives you a lot of chances, but if you don't take those chances, it takes a lot of chances away from you. It's just the scoring pattern. We cannot dwell over a loss or a win for very long. We have no time to celebrate; we have no time to dwell; we have to move on. Wake up the next day and try and win the match.

We're not done. We're just going to continue playing and hoping to put some wins together again.

I'd always much rather be second choice on anything because it makes you work harder.

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

I've had some wins. And been knocked down with defeats. Glimpsed views from the top of the mountain. And walked through the darkest of valleys. But through this entire ride called 'a life' - I've refused to give up.

Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

If I would have listened to other people back in 2000 telling me I should have stopped playing basketball because of a kidney disease, I wouldn't have won a world championship.

It takes a real soldier to stay in the music industry and live off the things that have been put before me and be able to survive all this time because it has not been easy.

When you are small, and you have to try and prove yourself, it is tough. When others are catching up and copy you, that's tough. We constantly need to change ourselves to stay ahead of the game.

It took putting one foot in front of the other every single day to get through it to the point where I made it back on the team and won a gold medal in 2008.

Don't give up because of the dark days. Succeed in spite of them. The dark days make the bright days seem even brighter. So bright you can hardly stand it.

I eventually became proud of my strikeouts, because each one represented another learning experience.

I still feel like I gotta prove something. There are a lot of people hoping I fail. But I like that. I need to be hated.

Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals.

It's the playoffs. You find a way to get through.

It's just been a lot of hard work and lot of auditions. A lot of ups and downs, but a lot of ups, and I'm really happy for my downs, too. I'm really thankful.

Whatever be the challenges, whatever be the obstacles before us, I say to you as I say to everybody else that we will overcome.

I envision Hollywood as a race, and some people simply drop off before their turn comes around. It's all about stamina - your ability to get back up and keep going even though everything is pointing at the odds not being in your favor.

At the beginning of my career, it was very hard to go up. Now, it's very hard to stay on top. You have to stay there, and I want to stay there so badly. I'm still standing.

In football, as in politics, resilience pays off.

I nearly failed when Virgin was in its infancy; I nearly failed in the early 1980s, and, of course, I have nearly died more than once trying to achieve a world record for boating or ballooning. But through a combination of luck and planning, both Virgin and I are still here.