DeMar DeRozan Quotes

Criticism is a great motivation. Failure is not an option to me.

The more criticism I get, the more it gives me a stronger urge to win. So I try harder.

You can't listen to every little thing that's bad or good said about you. I always used that - whenever I heard it, I used it as fuel to motivate me, man. That's how I was raised, whenever I came up.

I think one should take criticism in one's stride and prove oneself. In fact, I would like to thank my critics as their criticism gave me the fire and passion to prove myself.

In football, you can't always play well, and sometimes there will be criticism. Sometimes when I get a lot, it helps me. It makes me work even harder to improve and make the critics a little more positive.

Criticism doesn't affect me. It just makes me want to be better.

Any time that you're criticised, it drives you on, and you try to prove people wrong.

I don't like compliments. No. I prefer criticisms; prefer to prove them wrong

Let your critics make you humble, and your enemies make you wise. Learn from every stumble but let nothing keep you down, for you were born to rise!

Sometimes you have to suffer a little bit in your youth to motivate yourself to succeed in later life. If Bill Gates had got laid in high school, do you think there'd be a Microsoft?

All the people who knock me down, only inspire me to do better.

I believe there is nothing we endure in life that you can't recover from. Failure is not fatal. Everyone has the capacity to fail up.

I'll always use the negativity as more motivation to work even harder and become even stronger.

If somebody says no to you, or if you get cut, Michael Jordan was cut his first year, but he came back and he was the best ever. That is what you have to have. The attitude that I'm going to show everybody, I'm going to work hard to get better and better.

Rejection just motivates me to keep trying and to try to do better.

Take those chances and you can achieve greatness, whereas if you go conservative, you'll never know. I truly believe what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Even if you fail, learning and moving on is sometimes the best thing.

My parents never discouraged me. There were a couple times when my dad criticized a couple things that I did, but it was nothing. So through the bad shows, I never wanted to quit.

I've had great success and I've had catastrophic failure. It's really how you handle the rough stuff that defines you, I think.

When you fail you learn from the mistakes you made and it motivates you to work even harder.

One thing I've come to learn about myself is that I have to keep going.

I had to overcome challenge after challenge in order to take my life from nothing to living my dreams.

Success isn't permanent and failure isn't fatal.

I am proof that one person can rise above any challenge, and if I can, then so will others if they are given the chance.

We will all fail in life, but nobody has to be a failure. Failing at a thing doesn't make you a failure. You are only a failure when you quit trying.

Failure doesn't kill you... it increases your desire to make something happen.