Skepta Quotes

I don't like setting goals - I don't like to be disappointed.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

Ambition is a very dangerous thing because either you achieve it and your life ends prematurely, or you don't, in which case your life is a constant source of disappointment. You must never have ambition.

At Liverpool, I had almost everything but titles. I felt like a king, but the team was falling apart.

Still humping the American Dream

I was told once if I kept breaking things on my legs, that I wasn't going to be able to walk soon, you know? I wanted to be a pro skateboarder, but it was too hard. I was trying, but it wasn't going to happen.

I am a genius. Then it amused me to keep saying so, but now it does not. I expected to be happy sometime. Now I know I shall never be.

Everybody sets out to do something, and everybody does something, but no one does what he sets out to do.

When you have enough power to do what you always wanted to do, then you see what the guy always wanted to do.

When you're in your 20s, your 30s, even, you have - at least, I had - vast ambitions, and you sit around mooning about these things, and you're depressed, because you haven't done them. And it takes you a long time to come to the realization that if you can't be John Updike, well, then, you can't.

Success can create more madness than happiness.

I should have been smart enough to stay happy. But my ambition ruled my life.

I had planned to accomplish something considerable, and this is the end.

At one point in your life, you'll have the thing you want or the reasons why you don't.

Researching Magic Johnson, I realized I clearly haven't done enough with my life.

Successful people have a bigger fear of failure than people who've never done anything because if you haven't been successful, then you don't know how it feels to lose it all.

It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.

We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.

'The bigtime for you is just around the corner.' They told me that first in 1952 - boy, it's been a long corner. If I don't hit the bigtime in the next 25 or 30 years, I'm gonna pack in the music business and become a full-time gigolo.

After you get what you want you don't want it.

You never accomplish everything you want to accomplish.

In the big picture, few of our careers live up to the dreams we nursed when we were young. In fact, one underside of success is that it's nearly always penultimate, and so every accomplishment merely raises the bar.

As cricketers we fail all the time. You score a hundred every now and again but you get out between nought and 20 far more often. If you get 50, you feel bad because you should have got a hundred. Even if you get a hundred, you feel you should have got 150. So you're always failing.

I can't be happy with drawing or losing a match. It actually makes me really sad when that happens.

I tried hard to create my own records when a lot of them belonged to Steve Davis, so to see someone else beat yours, you'd be lying if you said there wasn't a twinge of regret there.