Jeannette Walls Quotes

It's a compliment that people think that I'm a good player. I remember when people didn't think I was good. And I remember being a rookie coming into the league with a big chip on my shoulder trying to prove myself.

I wouldn't be the same Pia if I won Miss Philippines on my first try.

Maybe it’s my own fault. Maybe I led you to believe it was easy when it wasn’t. Maybe I made you think my highlights started at the free throw line, and not in the gym. Maybe I made you think that every shot I took was a game winner. That my game was built on flash, and not fire. Maybe it’s my fault that you didn’t see that failure gave me strength; that my pain was my motivation. Maybe I led you to believe that basketball was a God given gift, and not something I worked for every single day of my life. Maybe I destroyed the game. Or maybe you’re just making excuses.

I've always been underestimated. It's happened throughout my entire career.

The world bursts at the seams with people ready to tell you you're not good enough. On occasion, some may be correct. But do not do their work for them. Seek any job; ask anyone out; pursue any goal. Don't take it personally when they say 'no' - they may not be smart enough to say 'yes.'

It's not being homeless that matters. It's about who you are. Keep striving and you become somebody. Quit and you also become somebody.. but not the same person.

The thing that I think about the most, and is the most rewarding to me, is the whole past. That I kind of went from nothing to something and I did it on my own, and I did it through hard work and smarts.

Believe in yourself, work hard, work smart and passionately present your best self to the world.

I'm going to go out there and just keep trying to get better.

You always try to fight for yourself, isn't it? You try to do the best possible job.

I just like to keep pushing myself and the sport.

I'm trying to... stay humble and keep doing what I do.

I'm just grateful that I didn't give up on myself and I just kept plugging at it.

I'm about working, getting better, and proving people wrong.

I'm going to make a difference in other people's lives because who I am as a person rather than who I was as a football player.

I'm so glad that I didn't give up on myself and there were people who didn't give up on me.

Throughout COVID, I just consistently grinded at my craft. I didn't let COVID get in the way of my goal and the goal is to be the best me that I can be for the team.

My goal is always to get better every day. No one will ever outwork me. That's how it will always be for me. That will never change.

I just want to keep working hard. I just want to keep improving myself. And I just want to prove people that I can play in the real game.

TNA didn't use me, but I got hungrier to wrestle. The struggle made me better.

I wasn't a kid who won every tournament I was playing, and I think that helped me - it motivated me a lot to know what it felt like not to win.

Believe in what you do and keep working hard and you can't take what people say personally, because if you do it'll eat at you.

Lincoln was not great because he was born in a log cabin, but because he got out of it

My own view of myself was that I was small and innocuous, a marshmallow compared to the others. I was a poor shot with a 22, for instance, and not very good with an ax. It took me a long time to figure out that the youngest in a family of dragons is still a dragon from the point of view of those who find dragons alarming.

I believe that persistent effort, supported by a character-based foundation, will enable you to get more of the things money will buy and all of the things money won't buy.