Kofi Kingston Quotes

I try and tell all the kids that I meet that hope to be amazing one day and be a professional athlete or a doctor or a lawyer or whatever they want to be. I tell them they can do all that because Tourette's won't stop them.

I want people to really be inspired, to believe they can do whatever they want.

No matter how many people say you can't do something, use that as inspiration to prove them wrong.

It is one thing to tell people in theory that you can be whatever you want to be, but it is another thing to tell someone that they can be whatever they wanted to be because somebody that is just like you did it.

Never stop believing you can fulfill your dreams.

Don't look at the poster on your wall and think 'I could never do that.' Look at the poster on your wall and think 'I'm gonna do that!'

I've had a very unusual background in science - not the usual route of planning on being a scientist from age 3. I think my story shows that success is more about personal motivation and determination than it is about where you were born or what your economic status was.

When people keep telling you that you can't do a thing, you kind of like to try it.

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts.

When I was young, a lot of things were closed off to me. I was always told, 'Don't do this, you can't do that' - instead of stopping me, it made me think, 'I can do that, I must do that.'

I say, 'If I'm able to go out there and achieve a dream, then anybody can do it.'

I have to work extra hard because I am dyslexic. People said that I couldn't be an actress, but I'm proving them wrong. Acting has helped me overcome the challenge.

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.

Because when I go places and I talk to kids and I talk to parents and I talk to athletes all over, and they look at my story and they see a person, African-American or not, they see something that they can relate to.

Kids always need a role model. I let them know you can do it, too, if you really want to.

If you tell me I can't do something, that's the worst thing to tell me. And that's what I tell girls, and what Beckham's about: you can do it, you can do it better, and you can do it in the way you want.

I certainly feel I'm carrying the flag for Britain. I feel an honour in that but, at the same time, knowing my roots are in Africa, I'd like that to help motivate people from there. Even coming from a third world country, it is possible to get to the top of wherever they want to be.

Never, never listen to anybody that try to discourage you.

Sometimes the mere assumption that you have the right to go, will get you there!

If I can sit on national television, and people are listening to what I think, anyone can do anything.

Hopefully I've inspired a lot of people who thought they'd never be able to get their own TV show to give it a go.

Don't let anyone stop you from doing what you are doing, from your dreams and what you want to do.

That is a message I hope to send and that I know all the other women hope to send: that no matter what your job is or what you want to achieve in life, anything you set your mind to, you can do.

The big thing for me is just continuing to be a beacon of hope. And showing people that nothing is impossible.

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.'