Mikaela Shiffrin Quotes

When I find a role I want to play, I just go after it.

A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.

I'm the kind of person who doesn't wait for opportunities to fall from the sky.

The minute I get a big head and start acting like the big man on campus, it's all downhill from there.

I like to dream, but I like to make things happen.

As I tell my daughter, when you want something in life - no matter how impossible it seems - you need to fight for it.

I'm ambitious. But if I weren't as talented as I am ambitious, I would be a gross monstrosity.

In life, you either watch TV or you do TV. I told my daughters that the only way you're going to make it in this business is to get in the game. That's the biggest advice I can give them.

Don't wait for your ship to come in. Swim out to it.

Success is ever so dangerous. Once you rise to success, it's so easy to stop doing the things that made you successful.

When I was young, I would try to give the right answers. 'I'm going to try to slide.' But at the end of the day, I finally realized that I am going to do whatever it takes. I'm going to leave everything out there.

I want the title. But these hands are working hands, and sometimes you've got to get them dirty.

There are a lot of things people want to look at, pick apart my game, but if you could put any of them in my position, to do anything to make their dream come true... I'm pretty damn sure they'd do it, too.

If there's an opportunity to go out there and show what I can do, I'm going to do it.

I learned that if you want something, you've got to really go for it, try to put the nerves aside.

When you can't wait for your ship to come in, you've got to row out to it.

When people say to me: "Oh don't worry, if one door closes another one opens..." If one door closes for me, go through the window - I'm not interested in waiting around for people to give me opportunities. I try and make things happen and if I am given opportunities I take them and work harder.

To be successful, you have to be out there, you have to hit the ground running

If you have a dream, you can achieve that dream, you can achieve that goal. You just gotta go for it. But it also lets you know, that there is a price to pay.

Successful people are willing to do things unsuccessful people will not do.

I don't believe in failure, because simply by saying you've failed, you've admitted you attempted. And anyone who attempts is not a failure. Those who truly fail in my eyes are the ones who never try at all. The ones who sit on the couch and whine and moan and wait for the world to change for them.

No one ever accomplished anything great sitting down.

I take pride knowing that I hustle, day in and day out.

Stop whining, start hustling.

I'm constantly reminding myself that the world owes us nothing. We have to make our way and we have to work hard, persevere and make our own way in the world because the world isn't waiting for us, so let's let the world know we are here.