Mike Singletary Quotes

Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.

In actual life, every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.

There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.

My mom was the first African-American woman to graduate from the University of Chicago Law School, in 1946. She had leadership roles in the law, in government and the corporate world. She was a great role model in that she felt anything was possible.

Success is related to faith. Faith comes first.

Great hopes make great men.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

You take a crash, you get back up and next time you succeed and that's a great feeling.

I was determined that with perseverance and faith, at some point, someone would say, 'This girl has talent,' and would cast me in something meaningful.

You have seen cricketers who are not god-gifted, but even then, they have gone far. That's because of the passion.

Sometimes people make it seem like you have to have certain prerequisites or a crazy life story in order to be successful in this world. But the truth is you really don't.

If one is hardworking and has faith in one's talent, I think it just adds to one's confidence.

Also, I'm obviously a big Tom Brady fan. Everybody loves him. I just like guys like that who have worked hard to get where they're at and have had a lot of success.

I learned that you could beat the big guys with desire, passion, and hard work.

I always say that with work and patience, if you believe in your own talent, at the end, things come back; there's no doubt about it.

Sometimes life's going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did.

I was told by thousands of people I would never make it.

I know there are kids who are looking up at me because of what I've done, and see my success and think, 'If that guy can do it, so can I,' then I love that and that's great.

The odds were against me when I arrived at Central Arkansas. I was barely 6-foot-2 and didn't have a scholarship. But I always felt I could make it to the NBA; it was as if I had foreseen my future, and I knew I would make it.

My heart outweighs all the talent. If they've got more talent, I believe that my heart will still overcome that. You've got to have heart to step inside the octagon anyway.

If you miss 10 in a row, you have to believe the next 10 are going to fall for you.

There's no way in the world any of the guys who have beaten me would have thought I could do what I've done. I just kept persisting with it.

Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

A familiar name on its own, however, does not carry its bearer far unless the talent is there, and the will to work.

Winners are not born, they are self-made.