An effort impelled by desire must also have an automatic or subconscious energy to aid its realization.
I don't really need bulk, just strength. I can get strong without putting on weight.
I'm a fighter. So if you're going to doubt me or say that I can't do something, I'm going to prove to you I can do it. And when I do it, hopefully I earn your respect and you'll know it didn't come easy to me.
I feel like half the battle is not giving up and staying positive. If you don't have anyone in your corner or anyone in your ear, being positive helps you believe that you can get through it.
I can't just tell the guys I want the ball, I have to do it with my body language.
I grew up in low-income areas and I've seen people take negative energy and just accept it. They give into and end up living a pretty rough life. At a young age, I just knew I wasn't going to give in because I didn't want to end up being one of those people in the neighborhood that didn't have anything and lived a hard life.
I take pride in just knowing how to do things. Whenever a coach tells me to do something, I always try to do it the way he said or do it to my best ability.
Magic is dangerous- but love is more dangerous still
You can have relatively high levels of class consciousness with a lower level of class militancy than one would have expected.
What I'm trying to do is be righteous. And when I say “righteous,” I don't mean God. You know? God- Righteous. I mean just when I wake up, I know I was honest to myself.
Change is all about motion, motion is all about uncertainty and we are deeply uncomfortable with uncertainty.