George Allen Quotes

I've had a normal life, but I have struggled to get here. It hasn't been handed to me and it hasn't been easy.

I come from zero and I've had to push myself up to where I am today. I'm not going to give up and I'm going to keep pushing.

I been through some things but I worked hard to get to where I'm at.

What I lack in talent, I compensate with my willingness to grind it out. That's the secret of my life.

To survive is to win.

America is a country of fighters. People who fought their way in and then continued fighting.

I think when you begin to think of yourself as having achieved something, then there's nothing left for you to work towards. I want to believe that there is a mountain so high that I will spend my entire life striving to reach the top of it.

It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?

This whole thing about winning and losing is muddy waters. But I can remember, as a young actor, just walking around this city and not being able to get arrested.

It takes a lot of energy and creativity to make such screwed up lives carry on. And the kind of will people have to survive, year after year, dealing with that stuff, is weirdly impressive.

Survival is triumph enough.

I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude.

I've seen too much in life to give up.

There had to be something else out there that would help me change. I wanted to live.

The truth is that at age 19, I was a teenage mother living alone with my daughter in a trailer and struggling to keep us afloat on my way to a divorce. And I knew then that I was going to have to work my way up and out of that life if I was going to give my daughter a better life and a better future, and that's what I've done.

It takes a real soldier to stay in the music industry and live off the things that have been put before me and be able to survive all this time because it has not been easy.

Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place - that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.

Survival was my only hope, success my only revenge.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

Success is survival.

I lived below the poverty line when I was young and starting out as a writer. But my wife and I kept trying to do things better, as anyone with ambition does. But just because you're trying doesn't mean you're always going to succeed.

I've had to fight every year. That's kept me hungry.

I was born in a tiny place in Ivory Coast, so being a protagonist in this life is a dream.

I have a niece now, and it makes me want to be better for her, just to show that there's a big wide world outside Toxteth, and you can imprint yourself in any one of those places as long as you do the hard work and have the desire.

I left my band on my own, and it took me a long time to find major success again - almost a decade. And everything that didn't happen during that time just motivated me to do better.