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I had been in Russia for five years and had a pretty successful run, and I just kind of wanted a change. I wanted to see different things. They're pretty equal leagues, but there was less travel involved in Turkey.

The crowd also sets you up for success. When you're playing in front of 8,000 the pressure is on, right? People are watching.

I think it's about failure recovery and how you perform at a high level in front of a lot of people. I think that sets you up for success on the big stage.

You hear it said time and time again by successful directors: You have to make a movie for yourself. Don't make it for anyone else.

Our physiological constitution is obviously a product of Darwinian processes, insofar as you buy the evolutional theory as a generative, as an account of the mechanism that generated us. Our physiology evolved, our behaviors evolved, and our accounts of those behaviors, both successful and unsuccessful, evolved.

Every relationship stands on its own, and it's successful or not successful for its own reason.

I've carried my chip with me my entire career. I've had to fight and claw for every position I've had. I sat on the bench as a junior in high school, I had to compete my senior year in high school to get the job. I competed again at Vanderbilt before having success.

Ryder Cup, Presidents Cup, whatever it may be, is maybe the most fun couple weeks we have a year, but I love being able to control my own destiny. The work that I am able to put in ahead of time was either going to come out and I was going to be successful with it, or I was going to try and fail and learn how to succeed the next time.

I feel like you'll be most successful in life if you just try to block the noise, sometimes the hate can be louder than the love.

If someone has children, the first thing they want is for them to be happy, and then become someone in life and all that. But the educational system, I mean always, not just now, creates competitive, successful people, and does not educate them to be happy. The problem is that success gives money, not happiness. The eternal problem.

I've always felt that when I've been successful in red-ball cricket it has been because I've left the ball well and sometimes in cricket the shots you don't play are more important than the ones you do.

I clear my mind; I don't think about the pressure before a fight. I focus on going in the cage and being successful while doing my job.

To achieve success wasn't to get into the major leagues or have the best season in the world. The best success is to live your life the way God wants you to.

I don't think anybody can claim success at any part of our lives, private or professional, if there are others that don't enjoy the same opportunities.

America gave me the opportunity to open successful restaurants, start a TV show, and write books. I can even fill an auditorium when I give a speech, which in America is rare for a chef.

The more successful I got, the more scared I got. My name was all over Google. I had a Wikipedia page I was terrified to look at. And so I just snapped. I thought, 'If I'm going to come out with this, I'm going to do it in a big way. And not just for myself. This can't just be my story.'

To be ready to fail is to be prepared for success.

When guys work and they put the time in, it's always good to see them have success.

I think nobody should rash things and try to find the successor of Kobe Bryant.

When my career took off it surprised me, I was only 22. To have that much success so fast, I just wasn't prepared.

I wanted to honor the memory of my father, who was a great opera singer and died very young, without knowing my success. As I inherited his voice, it is in recognition of that heritage.

Going international is difficult. There are obstacles and barriers, but I couldnt, as some others do, be content with the success achieved in my country.

When I was 22 I didn't know how to manage my career or assimilate success.

Money does not guarantee success.

I'm not a defender of old or new football managers. I believe in good ones and bad ones, those that achieve success and those that don't.