Michael Waltrip Quotes

Life has been kind to me. I am happy with the love and appreciation that I have been getting throughout my career. I feel blessed.

That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.

I do not equate productivity to happiness. For most people, happiness in life is a massive amount of achievement plus a massive amount of appreciation. And you need both of those things.

Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don't collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don't really mean anything.

I feel so lucky that I have gotten to do what I have gotten to do.

Things have gone beyond my wildest expectations and dreams, and I feel like I've been given so many blessings in my life, between my friendship with the guys in the band, our wonderful audience, being able to play this music, and then my family.

The No. 1 question I get from everybody is, 'How did you make it?' I'm like, Don't worry about making it. There is no making it. Just be happy.

We are very fortunate to be recognized here in such an extraordinary manner for work that we enjoy.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

You know, I've had an incredible career and I'm blessed.

If you're not happy before you're successful, you're going to be miserable when you do become successful because all your problems just get magnified.

I'm so grateful for everything that's happened. I love my work. People have such hurdles - I just wanted to perform, and I wanted my parents to be proud, and they were proud.

To have the kind of success I have had is really amazing, and I am incredibly grateful.

When you win and you don't have anyone to share it with, why win? You have to have someone to share it with.

Contentment does not come from achievement.

I don't know anybody who thinks they have it all... I count myself extremely lucky to have a fantastic family and the career I always wanted.

It's been a terrific life.

My favorite thing about the success I've found is that I get to share it with my family and the ones that I love.

Okay, we've won. What do we do now?

I'm very grateful of my life and my career and the movies I've been able to make.

Everything I dared dream of has come to fruition. Which is not to say that I don't grumble with the best of them, but the wobbles have been way outweighed by the wonders.

I'd be lying if I said the success means nothing to me. It does. I enjoy it and live a pretty great life.

The success is worth nothing to me if I can't share it with the people I love.

I've won in the game of life.

So when I look back at 'Saw' and 'Insidious,' I just think, 'Wow. Both of those films went way past what we ever could've dreamt for them' and it makes me genuinely thankful, like every single day, once a day, even if it's just for thirty seconds, sitting in my car, I have a moment where I'm like, I can't believe I'm here.