Markieff Morris Quotes

When you have a lot of siblings, you always do something to feel special.

Other actors don't get asked about their brothers or sisters, so why do I have to always answer questions about having a twin brother? I suppose it's interesting for everybody other than me.

A family needs to work as a team, supporting each other's individual aims and aspirations.

I've got two brothers and two sisters, so there's five of us and we're all very close, which is cool.

Don't be the best. Be the only.

My wife has her own career and has been successful as well. The key for our success is mutual support for each other.

From a young age, I wanted to differentiate myself from my older siblings.

I have a different game than most of the players.

The best thing about having your brother in the same sport as you means you can go out and train together every day, and we can push each other on. That's something many of our rivals don't have when training day in day out.

I can't be the same as another player. I am just my way and I will try to improve on that at Chelsea.

When you write like everyone else and sound like everyone else and act like everyone else, you're saying, 'Our products are like everyone else's, too.'

I was always a guy who could score the ball as a kid, but everybody wanted to score. And I always wanted to be different in some type of way.

I've always wanted to be my own player from the start and do things a bit differently to what the others do. I want to play my own way.

I'm an identical twin, and I felt that with my twin brother, we sort of formed this unassailable force, and it gave me the confidence to be different. Even if I was a goofball, my twin brother was a goofball with me, so I didn't have to worry about fitting in as much. I was able to march to my own drummer.

We do make sure that one person doesn't stand out. But then, we are really unique. We all have our style, so I think we all stand out. We each have our own roles and positions in the band, and then we work together to make sure we all try hard for the Army.

The most significant thing is to always stay true to yourself. What brought you to where you are will continue to separate you. The thing is to be different.

I've figured out how to turn what's different about me and limitations - I'm new to this world, I'm a woman, I don't have a math background - and how I use that to my advantage. They're what make me unique. In poker you learn very quickly, if you play like everyone else, you'll be fine, but you'll never be great.

It's a plus to have a twin sister in the same tournaments.

Every man is captain of his career and there must be cooperation all around if he is to get what he wants out of life.

Even a family needs to work as a team.

There never will be a trust in excellence or a combination in superiority. As long as you can do a thing a little better than anybody else can do it, you need no bond or trade-mark to protect the product of your brains.

Teamwork remains a sustainable competitive advantage that has been largely untapped because it is hard to measure (teamwork impacts the outcome of an organization in such comprehensive and invasive ways that it's virtually impossible to isolate it as a single variable) and because it is extremely hard to achieve (it requires levels of courage and discipline that few executives possess) - ironically, building a strong team is very simple (it doesn't require masterful insights or tactics).

When life gives you lemons don't make lemonade, make pink lemonade. Be unique.

When you choose to become part of a team, you cease to exist as an individual.

Don't impersonate. Innovate.