Bam Adebayo Quotes

I'd rather stay out of the limelight until I've done something I feel proud of.

Obviously, I want to be an All-Star.

This means a lot. I'm being recognized for all the blood, sweat and tears I put into a 17-year career.

During the past 23 years, I have set a number of goals for myself and I'm proud to say that these goals have been achieved.

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

I look at my jersey and see the NBA logo, I'm like, 'I didn't think I'd be here.'

Today I join the greatest players that played the game. It is a great feeling being here.

People in the U.S. didn't know what taekwondo was. But they saw what the Lopezes were able to do with all the love and support and hard work we put in, and what we accomplished. It makes me feel real lucky to be in a position like that.

Once in a while, I have to pinch myself to remind myself I am Nobel laureate, but that is not part of my work plan every day.

Yeah, I made it. It sneaks up on you. You're some schmuck and you wake up one day and you go, Good God, I'm the cheese.

All my life, I've been winning, ok?

I have won many awards and I am very happy about this, but I am not the best player in the world.

Any accolades that anybody puts toward this band really makes me feel good, because I have devoted such a big part of my life to this band, making it what I want it to be.

The greater the effort, the greater the glory.

I'm proud that somebody like myself has made it to the very top.

I think swagger's a confidence. It's a confidence of you knowing that you work hard for your success. A lot of times, you can't develop swagger if you haven't worked hard to succeed.

I feel 'proud' whenever I feel that I've worked on something for a certain amount of time with a certain amount of attention. I'm not sure if I think in terms of 'pride' though.

Even though I've had the body of work I've had, and the success I've had, I do not rest on my laurels whatsoever.

So I won an Oscar. It's amazing. I've got that for the rest of my life for a performance I am proud of. It nearly killed me. I am really proud of the film. That's it, moving on.

My dad said: 'It looks like you'll be world No.1 in a few hours and I wanted to be the first to say congratulations.'

As an athlete, you figure you work your whole life to have what you have, and to be able to show the world what you have and how proud you are of it, that's always fun.

I call myself the hardware shelf. There's a lot of awards and honors there. And I have earned that. I didn't ask for it, I didn't beg for it, I didn't pay for it. I earned that. People see the accomplishments - but it's good to remind people that so much strife and labor and tears and heartbreak came before that, that it really is earned.

I work very hard... I love to show what I work so hard to do.

Winning the Ballon d'Or is the consequence of your work.