Michael Oher Quotes

I didn't corner the market on great stories. I'm not the only one who can do something like work at a grocery store and then win a Super Bowl. Other people can do it. You hope people will see that and say, 'Hey, that will be me.' They're going to chase after it like I did. And they're going to be the next one.

In the United States, if you believe in yourself and you're determined and persevere, you're going to succeed.

At one point, I was in a place where it didn't feel like it was going to happen, and I was feeling pretty down on myself. But I stuck to it, and now I have a hit comedy on my hands. You've got to keep plugging away at it. If you really believe in yourself, you can definitely make it happen.

I strongly believe that through dedication and perseverance, one can overcome adversity to achieve success. It is a privilege to accept membership in the Horatio Alger Association, an organization which promotes this principle.

It was tough to fail year after year. I never even got to the final stage until I got my card on the Web.com Tour. But I always believed that I could be something special. I just had to prove it to myself.

If you take the autobiographies of great sports people, they are almost always the same. They start with zero; they are always ambitious, know what they want to do in life, and have the confidence to do it.

I want a kid to look at me and say, 'You know what, this man had no chance in life, but he stayed in there, and he worked hard. He dedicated himself, and he did it'.

I love people who succeed in life overcoming various odds.

I told some people before, that if five years from now, or 10 years, if I am still playing in the NFL, this whole kind of story just fits who I am. It just shows that with hard work and confidence in yourself and belief in yourself, you can accomplish your dreams.

Believe in your dreams and work hard for them.

I come from a very rough background, and I'm saying that if you work hard and dedicate yourself that you can make it, too.

Every step, whether at high school or at college or at the NFL, I had to climb and crawl and scratch to get there.

The important thing in life is not to triumph but to compete.

Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.

I've been motivated by overcoming challenge and overcoming the hurdles and obstacles that face me. There still is plenty out there to get motivated by.

I been through some things but I worked hard to get to where I'm at.

I came from nothing and achieved humungous fame and fortune. But I worked hard. I had discipline and determination. I had that ice in me.

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.

If four things are followed - having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance - then anything can be achieved.

When I think about parallels between myself and an Olympian, I believe that success in the world of business is underpinned by very similar principles of perseverance and hard work.

There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

I can't say I'm surprised I was successful. I was determined - and I got it.

I want to be an example of a guy who made something of himself out of nothing. A guy who overcame the odds of a tough childhood, who worked hard, who didn't let his surroundings get the best of him and lead him to jail or the graveyard. Where I ended up - being a comedian, a TV star, and a movie actor - might be unique, but my story is not.

I've always found that anything worth achieving will always have obstacles in the way and you've got to have that drive and determination to overcome those obstacles on route to whatever it is that you want to accomplish.

I've been blessed with a lot of great things in my life, and one of them was work ethic. And with work ethic, you can make anything happen.