Dwyane Wade Quotes

I will keep smiling, be positive and never give up! I will give 100 percent each time I play. These are always my goals and my attitude.

It takes an inner strength to succeed.

I've always felt like a little bit of an underdog at each level - never the tallest or strongest or even fastest. But one thing I've always tried to do was to play harder than anyone on the court.

I'm always going to feel like the underdog. I feel like that's the kind of mind-set I want to have and if I do lose that mind-set, I want somebody to slap me in the face and say, 'Hey, pick it up and get back to the roots.'

I took my sports experience to my life on stage. That's why I'm so disciplined. Playing sports, I was always underestimated. I was never picked first to do anything. This always helped me. It taught me how to push myself.

One of the beautiful things about baseball is that every once in a while you come into a situation where you want to, and where you have to, reach down and prove something.

I'm the kinda person, you gotta fight for everything you get. You gotta believe in yourself.

Lack of encouragement never deterred me. I was the kind of person who would not be put down.

I'll always use the negativity as more motivation to work even harder and become even stronger.

But I've never once thought that I wouldn't get back, as if you do think like that, then you're in trouble.

When I'm down or maybe when it's close in the match, I feel like I'm still in it. I don't feel like I'm letting down. Mentally, I'm still really, really tough.

I don't care what other people say. I fight every day to be the best player I can.

A competitor will find a way to win. Competitors take bad breaks and use them to drive themselves just that much harder. Quitters take bad breaks and use them as reasons to give up. It's all a matter of pride.

You gotta pick yourself up. Sometimes you just gotta do it over and over, but you gotta do it. You can't give up. I wouldn't give up. I didn't give up - or doubt myself - in becoming a successful musician with a successful band.

The most inspiring piece of advice I've gotten is simply to persevere. My mom taught me to always keep going no matter what from an early age. When it feels too difficult to push forward, I always remind myself, 'This too shall pass,' and then I redouble my efforts.

I'm functioning on a lung and a half, but I have proved that it's possible to challenge yourself.

For me to get through the toughest periods in my life, I had to look within to find the energy to do it. I don't give up. Never have. Never will.

My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.

No matter what industry you're in, there will be naysayers. So you have to be your own champion.

Anything is possible. I've got a few more miles in me. I'm not going to feel sorry for myself.

You've got keep your head up, keep fighting, and do the best you can.

I struggle with my training sometimes. The thing I look at is if you keep getting up and moving forward, you'll be successful. That's the way I've lived my life. I'm not going to stop doing something because somebody says it's time. I'm going to stop it when my body says it's over or the fans say, 'we're done watching you.'

I train hard every day, I don't know what the word 'impossible' means.

Every Mexican fighter has the heart; they work hard with their training, and they never give up. That's the mentality I always had and always saw growing up.

I've always believed in myself, and it's such a long competition over two days, you can't worry about what anyone else is doing.