Jay-Jay Okocha Quotes

I don't like Moscow. It's not my city.

In The States I would have no edge, no advantage at all.

Man thrives, oddly enough, only in the presence of a challenging environment.

Things are rough all over.

When you're outside in those elements, there's something out there that takes it out of you, so you work real hard. It was physically demanding, but in a very good way. It's not a bad thing. It's a good thing, when things are physically demanding 'cause everyone is rising to the occasion.

If on paper one would say, "You're gonna spend three weeks in Death Valley," you say, "No, I'm not going to be able to." Very often, very quickly you forget about it.

The water was not fit to drink. To make it palatable, we had to add whisky. By diligent effort, I learned to like it.

It is going to take more than just a couple of good-hearted souls to raise this child. It will take a graveyard.

Love could never bloom in a concrete block room.

Cities with all their advantages have something hostile to liberal learning, the seductions are so subtle and accost the senses so openly on all sides.

One must be businesslike, although the glass is falling.

You know, growing up my - you know, I came from Compton, Calif., and, you know, it was a place where a lot of people did come out when a lot of people stayed. So I've been able to see the top and the bottom of life, and I think that balances you if you allow it to and if you remember where you came from.

It's a hard world for little things.

Adversity is like the period of the rain. . . cold, comfortless, unfriendly to people and to animals; yet from that season have their birth the flower, the fruit, the date, the rose and the pomegranate.

Other niggas' situations, they are all depressing.

Some people don't like staying in an atmosphere that was so hostile.

It's a tougher program for tougher customers.

When we fight upstream against a rocky undercurrent, every foothold takes on a kind of urgency.

Your car breaks down in the middle of the night. It's raining. It's cold. And you have to change the tire of your car. You cannot really enjoy that it is cold and wet, but you can bring acceptance to it. Peace flows into it.

I think there was something about being in a tough environment that gave me a certain drive.

My dad was dead, so these streets had to raise me.

These New York City streets get colder, I shoulder every burden every disadvantage I've learned to manage. I don't have a gun to brandish. I walk these streets famished.

Mental acuity was never born from comfortable circumstances.

The minute I leave my house - that is where I feel safe - I'm immediately in the jungle. The key is to survive through the cold world.