Rick Ross Quotes

I have to thank my mum for kicking me out at 16 and making me stand on my own two feet - that's how I got here.

I work hard, and I do good, and I'm going to enjoy myself. I'm not going to let you restrict me.

In my life I had no other choice than to become a strong person.

You've got to stand up and do your own battles. My daddy taught me that a long time ago, that you fight your own battles. The only way to shut everybody up is to win.

I'd learned a lot in the Army. I knew that above all things in the world I had to become so big, so strong that people and their hatred could never touch me.

Since being quite young, I've had a very strong sense of independence and survival. As a child, I was on my own two feet emotionally.

I'm very realistic about who's coming to my defense. I am my defense.

It's a cold world out there, and this world will pass you by if you give another man anything over yourself.

If you would have your son to walk honourably through the world, you must not attempt to clear the stones from his path, but teach him to walk firmly over them - not insist upon leading him by the hand, but let him learn to go alone.

You have to live through things. You can't have other people telling you to do that and do this. It's important to live through things.

I always knew that I would have to make it on my own somehow.

Kenya, being a third world country, from a young age your eyes are open to the real world. I'd like to think growing up there taught me to stand on my own two feet, make my own decisions about what I wanted to be.

Be able to live alone, even if you don't want to and think you will never find it necessary.

You have to hold your bloody own or you're lost.

The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brains and in your hands, wherever you go... It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.

Hero shows you how to solve the problem - yourself.

Even if it's not what you planned, you can make a life for yourself on your own and be happy.

I've grown up a lot, I'm on my own, and I've learned some valuable life lessons.

I didn't have anybody, really, no foundation in life, so I had to make my own way. Always, from the start. I had to go out in the world and become strong, to discover my mission in life.

You may lose your wife, you may lose your dog, your mother may hate you. None of those things matter. What matters is that you achieve success and become free. Then you can do whatever you like.

Women call me all the time and tell me, 'You inspired me to get out of a bad situation,' or 'You inspired me to take the reigns for myself and go and do this.' I try to tell people to live their best life, and do what you know you need to do for yourself and your family. You need to be supported.

After school, I'd wait for someone to pick me up and no one would, so I'd be like, 'I guess I'll walk home.' I had to be a hustler, because nobody did anything for me.

My parents didn't give me any scope to feel sorry for myself. They were just like 'go play with your brother, go climb a tree, go fall off your motorbike, do whatever you want. Don't come crying to us when you get scratched. You've got prosthetic legs - that's very nice.'

We become strong, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look to for moral guidance.

I've learnt to take care of myself.