Brian Lara Quotes

I think I've always been very good at taking advantage of the opportunities that have been given to me, because I didn't have many. Once I got one, I grabbed it with two hands.

Every time I got opportunities, I did something with it.

People doubted me, said I lacked skill. I'm just trying to stay consistent, use my minutes wisely, and do what I can with the opportunity.

I took opportunities and made it work because I worked harder than everybody else. That's really where 'Stay Hyped' came from, that's my mantra because it's about always being up and being ready to go. That's what I've always had to do.

I believe that if you stay positive and you keep your nose to the ground and you keep working hard for every inch that eventually will pay off and something will roll your way.

Personally, I've learned about perseverance: when you hear the word 'No,' and when you hear rejection, that it's not always final. And that timing is everything, and you have to stay the course and just keep working hard and know that, when your time comes, that it will be sweet and that it will be the perfect time.

I am accustomed to making the most out of my opportunities.

I made my way in this league playing special teams and then kind of worked my way into playing receiver. It was always just kind of doing whatever I could do and taking advantage of all the opportunities that I got.

If I stay patient in the offense, shots will come.

I miss many chances, but I always keep trying, and sometimes you score easy goals or difficult goals, but in the end, I am trying to score.

I need to keep working hard, winning fights, and it will happen. I just hope that I don't get sidestepped for too long.

Don't get me wrong: I've had a lot of fortune, to come where I've come from, to be able to move to Europe, to go racing. But I had that fortune behind me. I grabbed it with both hands, and I made the best of it.

The only real failure to me is if you don't finish something.

At Tottenham, it took two years for me to try to break in there. I knew my opportunity would come - it was just about being patient and working hard on the training pitch - and it did.

You have to have faith in yourself, keep believing and sticking to the game plan, and hope when the chance does come, one of you will put it away.

I realised to keep improving, I needed to play more. It wasn't easy not getting many chances, but I knew I just had to keep working hard in training and take the opportunities when they came.

I kind of believe that, whenever possible, you should finish the job that you set out to do.

I promise you, a lot of it is luck. But you make your own luck by working really hard and trying lots and lots of things.

Life is very persistent and very ingenious in seizing every opportunity.

He that will not whan he may,Whan he would, he shall haue nay.

You just work at it. You just keep grinding away, keep trying to get better, and if you got the ability, one day you have a chance.

If you ever get a second chance in life for something, you've got to go all the way.

The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged the chance; conquered the chance; and made chance the servitor.