Simone Manuel Quotes

Sports nurtures dreams of achieving self confidence and masculine striving for the skinny kid watching a boxer dance around the ring with sublime ease.

Tennis has had a very positive impact on my life.

Follow your dreams, believe in yourself and don't give up.

I think that they way my parents raised me, they taught me to always follow my dreams and never give up, no matter what the obstacle.

I think it's quite great to set yourself a big challenge, and then you've got another reason for keeping fit.

When you're raising a little kid, you tell that kid to go after their goals and their dreams. And you tell them to work as hard as anybody.

It's just incredible how people come up to me and say, 'Gabby, you inspire me to do anything I can set my mind to.' It's truly an honor.

I always feel like it's two key ingredients when it comes to following your dreams, making something happen that the average person deems difficult. If you truly believe it, that's step one. Step two, is, you know, the hard work that goes along with it.

When you follow your dreams, you encourage other people to follow theirs.

I want young girls to be inspired to love themselves and strive to follow their dreams no matter what.

When I was 15, and I just stepped on the A-team, I believed in myself, but I wasn't cocky in any way. I just wanted something so badly that I could tell people around me that were ten years older that they had to play and perform. I would still say that I had respect.

All my music has always been about positive, having ambition, having goals, having dreams, and believing in yourself.

Football gave me a sense of purpose. It gave me a sense of me.

If I can give that back to one little girl, much less thousands, and if they start on this journey because they saw me do this, then I did a good thing with my career and my life.

You've got to believe in your damn self and do the damn thing, so I'm a big believer in self-belief, man, and going out there and working hard and sacrificing.

My dad empowered me and made me believe I could accomplish whatever I set my mind to.

Being a lifelong athlete, I am a firm believer that I am who I am today because of sports. Not only did it give me structure and a solid foundation, but it gave me a sense of failure and how to overcome failure.

Everyone has their special strength. And my strength is to have the ball and start good things with it.

I know I can make plays.

I want people to know me for following my dreams.

Just follow your dreams and be patient.

I know what I do, I know I can play football, and I know I can talk about it.

Every year, every day, every month, I am proving myself.

Akhmad is strength!

The inner confidence in knowing who you are, believing in your dreams, and following your heart, is what make you radiate from within.