Dimitar Berbatov Quotes

I wanted to prove to people it doesn't matter if you come from a small little island: that you can make it in this industry.

Like Nemanja Vidic, I came from a small town in a small country in Eastern Europe, but we had reached the top.

My journey has practically been a typical Hindi film script. I was a boy from a small town who wanted to make a future in dancing. Everyone though that I won't be able to do anything.

Growing up in England, people told you why you couldn't do things. Suddenly, I had a publisher banging on my door, and was given the creative green light to simply make.

As a person who came from a small town and had dreams of becoming an actor, I know what it's like to have no support system for what it is that you want to do. A lot of people think you don't have a chance.

There's no way in hell I'm supposed to be on television or be a broadcaster of any regard. But I have defied those odds because I believe in this: I am damn sure not going to let somebody else define who I am.

I know that a lot of people take inspiration from the fact that I was just a common man with no film background who turned into a star.

I tell people to look at me and understand that everybody first told me that I couldn't be a 6-foot, 9-inch point guard, and I proved them wrong. Then they told me I couldn't be a businessman and make money in urban America, and I proved them wrong. And they thought I couldn't win all these championships, and I proved them wrong there as well.

Nobody really thought I was going to make it, because I was a musician. I really wasn't a singer.

Where I came from, the idea of going into show business was just ridiculous; in fact I didn't tell anybody because I knew people would laugh at me. So I sort of snuck around and got some pictures and got a resume together and, of course, lied and said I did all kinds of things I didn't do.

If I were to listen to people all the time when they say, 'Hey, this is a really high challenge, this is a high climb, the bar is pretty steep,' then I wouldn't have gone to the academy. I wouldn't have become an aircraft carrier pilot. I wouldn't have become a Navy SEAL for sure. And I probably wouldn't have applied to Harvard.

When I was at school, most people were planning on going to university and becoming doctors or lawyers. I wanted to be a singer, and I was laughed at. It was tough, but I never let anything stop me.

I think I knew acting was what I wanted to do. But I was from this small town and there was no place for an adult to recognise it.

I haven't accepted anyone telling me what is or isn't possible and have just kept moving along toward my goals.

I think it's important to move people beyond just dreaming into doing. They have to be able to see that you are just like them, and you made it.

I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.

When I graduated from Parsons School of Design, the dean at that time said I would never be a designer. Obviously I didn't listen.

Raise your ambition beyond where you're capable of now. There's nothing about my hometown that said I'd be working with Fortune 50 CEO's, Olympians, at the highest level.

The things I love about this business the most, is that it is a challenge trying to prove to everyone - including yourself - that you can do something different than what people think you're capable of.

When you break glass ceilings, you're going to get minor scrapes by a shard or two from the glass.

Nobody thought that I could become a professional. I was not that good. It was really just one thing I had fun doing. But it was never realistic for me to become a professional until I became 17 or maybe 18.

Women must follow their passion and dreams without fear.

I think it's important to inspire other people to try and do things that people discourage you to do.

Who can't relate to a story of a dreamer who, against all odds, is going to make something of himself that is completely unexpected?

I wasn't entitled to dream so big. The idea of me being a writer wasn't even possible in my mind. Even when I began to write and first published, I couldn't call myself a writer.