Russell Hornsby Quotes

When you cannot have steak, either you eat egg or you don't eat. So, in the end, you eat egg and you enjoy it.

I grew up learning to do more with less.

When you can't have what you choose, you just choose what you have.

When you cannot have something, you make what you have work.

At times, I didn't play, but I was still the best - that's how I saw it. If I get 15, 20 minutes, I will do what I have to do and make an impact.

If that's all he can get, and he takes it, I should say it's enough.

Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.

Everybody's got something. In the end, what choice does one really have but to understand that truth, to really take it in, and then shop for groceries, get a haircut, do one's work; get on with the business of one's life. That's the hope, anyway.

Sometimes good enough is good enough.

Coming from a big family, I learned a lot. Things don't have to be perfect. You can do okay with 'almost.'

If you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with.

One arm might handicap me a little in competition, but I just work with what changes I know I have to make, and I'm pretty used to it now. It mainly depends on the wave conditions... I only get half the waves everyone else rides, so mine have to be good!

My number-one theory in life is that style is proportional to your lack of resources - the less you have, the more stylish you're likely to be.

It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.

Less is only more where more is no good.

I am willing ... when I cannot get all I wish, to take what I can get.

Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get.

We have to take the good with the bad.

A draw is the lesser of two evils. A loss or a draw, then obviously we are going to take the draw.

You have two choices: You can take what you're given or build with what you've got. I choose to build with what I've got and try to make the best of it because I've still been given a stage. I've still got cameras in front of my face when I want them, and I plan to run with it.

Sometimes you do have to accept your second or third choice in order to avoid an outcome you consider to be even worse.

You don't say, 'I've done it!' You come, with a kind of horrible desperation, to realize that this will do.

No matter how little a man has he will find that he will always settle for less.

Better a barefoot than none.

We all do what we can, and it has to be good enough, and if it isn't good enough, it has to do.