Paul Lambert Quotes

I've always been a workhorse, and I've been supporting myself since I was 15.

I did everything I could to stay in college and pay my own way, so I think that if success hadn't come so quickly, I would still be pursuing it.

I wouldn't be where I am right now, and have the right work ethic and discipline, if it weren't for all the indie films I did. We weren't pampered and were pretty much on our own.

I am a completely self-made person. It's been a tough journey - I learnt on the job, worked 48 hours without sleeping.

No one ever taught me how to shave; no one ever sat down to watch a Braves game with me. I paid for Yale myself, I lived by myself, I taught myself how to play the guitar. I did this all on my own.

I am a firm believer in if you can't get it the old fashioned way, you don't need it.

I've had to work by myself at combines before and forced myself to work out alone all the way back to high school. You have to be self-motivated.

I will be making films, and I'm going to keep working, no matter what I have to do. And I don't plan to ever ask for permission from anybody.

I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.

I'm a big believer in personal responsibility. My life wasn't always peaches and roses. Where I am today is through a belief in hard work and never saying no.

In spite of my lack of education, I didn't lack direction.

I am the product of hustlers who taught me how to do it. They gave me a hustler's ambition. Not a bad thing to get from your parents. But hustling only gets you so far. You have to trust yourself. And you have to be ready to fall on your face and be okay when it happens.

Nothing has been handed to me my entire life. You have to go there and take it. My mom taught me that.

My never-say-never attitude has helped me a lot. That's why after a short period after the accident, I'm capable of doing almost everything on my own.

I grew up working hard to earn everything I had.

I have brought up my kids single-handedly. So a strenuous routine is something I thrive on, not shy away from.

I put myself through college.

I know how to work. Not everything was given to me.

I don't want anything handed to me, I want to work for everything I have... that's the way I've done everything in my life.

My whole life, nothing was handed to me. I had to go out in the world and get it.

I don't want no handouts. I want to get it out the mud.

I don't know how to get anything done except getting on my knees and pleading for help and then getting on my feet and going to work.

If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.

It just doesn't occur to an American that someone else will solve their problems. Americans take pride in solving problems for themselves. And if we fail, we get back up and try again. It's what we do. It's who we are.

I always hustled to make money and pay for school. I was never afraid of hard work.