Metta World Peace Quotes

People ask how I learned to play bass with one hand. Well, with a face like mine, you learn to do a lot of things with one hand.

You just have to do your art. Nothing can stop you.

I've played football one-handed. I've played football with no hands.

I will play until my knee, my ankle or my back say 'stop.'

I could never give up athletics. Running is what I will always do. Even if, maybe, the authorities could have stopped me from running in 2009, they could not have stopped me in the fields. I would have carried on with my running; it doesn't matter. When I run I feel free, my mind is free.

I can't let anybody tell me what I'm going to be.

If I can walk, I can play.

Personality is the supreme realization of the innate idiosyncracy of a living being. It is an act of high courage flung in the face of life, the absolute affirmation of all that constitutes the individual, the most successful adaptation to the universal conditions of existence coupled with the greatest possible freedom for self-determination.

This is a very difficult thing to remain independent and persistent.

The record shows, I took the blows . And did it my way.

It's remarkable she [Venus Williams] plays at all, given her Sjögren's syndrome [an autoimmune disorder that can cause joint pain]. She's back, winning tournaments. She didn't allow society to tell her, "You have this disease; you can't do that anymore." I look at her, like, "She's not playing at 100 percent. You are. You don't have excuses." Knowing what she went through helped me try to be a more positive person.

I refuse to allow a disability to determine how I live my life. There is only one way to go in life and that is forward.

I've always been my own person. Everything I've ever done in my life I did the hard way.

No matter what song I recorded or sang, I did it my way.

No matter what the statistics say there is always a way.

You can try to pin me down with a hundred thousand arms, but I will find a way to resist

Do what you want, do what you will, do what you have to, do what you think you cannot.

Nanda broke down every barrier and won his way to freedom not by brag, not by bluster, but by the purest form of self-suffering.

She knows where she's going, and what she has to do. She could, after all, find her way to Route 95 South blindfolded. She could do it in the dark, in fair weather or foul; she can do it even when it seems she will run out of gas. It doesn't matter what people tell you. It doesn't matter what they might say. Sometimes you have to leave home. Sometimes, running away means you're headed in the exact right direction.

Prepared to fly, even if she has to loose her legs to do it

The goal has never been to always succeed. The goal is to be allowed to keep initiating.

I don't want to play out of another man's bag.

You can build walls all the way to the sky and I will find a way to fly above them.

There's a way out of any cage, and I'll find it!

In sum, do not insult me with the beheadings, finger choppings or the lung-deflations you plan for my works. I need my head to shake or nod, my hand to wave or make into a fist, my lungs to shout or whisper with. I will not go gently onto a shelf, degutted, to become a non-book. All you umpires, back to the bleachers. Referees, hit the showers. It's my game. I pitch, I hit, I catch. I run the bases. At sunset I've won or lost. At sunrise, I'm out again, giving it the old try. And no one can help me. Not even you.