Billy Porter Quotes

I like being the underdog. I like turning around and shutting people up when they tell me I can't.

People said I wouldn't be in the NBA. People said I wouldn't be a starting center, this, that and the other. I just prove people wrong.

For everyone who thought I couldn’t do it… for everyone who thought I shouldn’t do it… for everyone who said, ‘It’s impossible’… see you at the finish line!

Failure makes success so much sweeter, and allows you to thumb your nose at the crowds.

I been through some things but I worked hard to get to where I'm at.

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

There were so many points where I was like, 'I can't do this.' It was too exhausting. It's just a lot, and then suddenly something happens, and your career changes, and it's so much fun and wonderful. I look back on those moments, and I'm so glad I didn't give up.

You actually can make it, no matter what. I truly am a firm believer in that. Eminem's living proof.

I was told millions of times that I was never going to achieve what I set out to, but I decided to do it, and I did it.

I take my hat off to my friend, Mark Wahlberg, because I know that it took him a long time to make 'The Fighter', and he overcame a lot of obstacles to do it, and now the film is an unqualified success.

I've worked hard over the years, I've been injured and I've worked hard through it, and I've made it.

People said I couldn't gig, and I proved them wrong.

I'm really thankful to God, man. Like now, I'm really making a real comeback with my group. With or without a record, with or without a movie. And behind all the negative press behind this movie.

Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

It's just been a lot of hard work and lot of auditions. A lot of ups and downs, but a lot of ups, and I'm really happy for my downs, too. I'm really thankful.

I was told I would become nothing. Now I am showing people how big nothing is.

Success is not the absence of failure; it's the persistence through failure.

My entire life, people have told me that I couldn't do certain things. They told me I couldn't go to college. They told me I couldn't go to Yale, Georgetown, couldn't end up doing much on Capitol Hill. Couldn't be party chair. And my response has always been, 'Watch me.'

People told me it was impossible to beat the Americans at their own game; there was a lot of politics involved and outsiders didn't stand a chance. But if you're good enough, nothing else matters - I'm living proof of it!

I had no money, no training facilities, no snow, no ski jumps, no trainer, but I still managed to ski jump for my country - and getting there was my gold medal.

Not many people get up after a setback or two. But those who do make the impossible come true.

The Special Olympics motto, 'Let me win, but if I cannot win, let me be brave in the attempt,' really speaks to me because it embodies exactly what I have pursued in my life. Really, that's all any of us can hope for - a chance to be brave and to pursue a dream.

When you have come from the bottom and worked your way to the top, you are more grateful.

Things come and go - there's win, losses, and injuries, but you get back on the horse - but I appreciate what I've done more.