Dirk Nowitzki Quotes

The first few years in L.A. were really tough and scary, but I had to figure things out for myself.

I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full.

No matter how long your've been at it, you always start from scratch.

Expand your notion of what adversity is.

My parents believe in the principle of ‘sink or swim,’ or ‘what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger ― or it kills you.” From “The Education of Robert Nifkin

The wind is rising ... we must attempt to live.

You never get it figured out. You just keep playing.

Adversity is just change that we haven't adapted ourselves to yet.

These are the times that try men's souls.

When I moved to Los Angeles, aged 54, I printed out Winston Churchill's phrase, 'Never, never, never give up', and stuck it on my fridge. I had no idea what was going to happen, but I knew I had to keep on going.

If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.

Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.

It's not a field, I think, for people who need to have success every day: if you can't live with a nightly sort of disaster, you should get out. I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that the ghosts you chase you never catch.

I devoted myself to writing for years without representation or a promise of anything. And there were times when I felt quite down about my prospects.

Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.

These years of the Ecole Normale were an ordeal. Nothing was handed to me on the first try.

There were times when I was working three jobs at one time, and I was still auditioning just to make ends meet, and I was hoping that something was going to come through. Especially after you have two degrees, standing solid through the process is sometimes the hardest part because there is no guarantee.

Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

I hope that I'm always struggling, really. You develop when you're struggling. When you're struggling, you get stronger.

In my race, there's 10 hurdles, but in life, there is always a hurdle. There is always something you gotta get over, and it's what you do, you know.

When I left 'Days of Our Lives,' I was like, 'I don't know if I'm ever working again. I'm going to do the best I can. If it happens, great. If not, well... it sucks for me.'

Revelations come when you're in the thick of it, pitting yourself up against something larger than yourself.

My life is a beautiful struggle.

How can they beat me? I've been struck by lightning, had two back operations, and been divorced twice.

Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.