All or Nothing Quotes

You are either with us or against us…

Democracy is like virginity. You can’t have just some of it.

I was banging seven-gram rocks...because that's how I roll. I have one speed. I have one gear. Go.

I do love to gamble; I hate to admit it.

I'm an all-or-nothing guy. When I'm working, I work, work, work, work, work, and when I'm not, I'm the laziest sloth this planet has ever provided us.

You get into a situation where your back's up against the wall and you don't have any option but to go out swinging, so you might as well go for it.

Our cause being almost lost, something decisive and great must be done.

I am black or white, I'll never be grey in my life.

If I'm going to do something, I'll do it properly or not at all.

You're nothing to me until you're everything.

Either Caesar Or Nothing Aut Caesar aut Nihil

Personally, emotionally, I'd rather divorce myself from the world than face the heartbreak of partial success. Because partial success implies overwhelming failure.

There can be a progression to the dream; there can be steps to it. When you dissect any successful person's story, it's really rare that it was all or nothing. It's steps, and I just try to remind myself of that in terms of the things that I want; it's like, everything is a step, leading you to where you need to go.

Everything for me has always been opposites; nothing has ever been in the middle... My life never had anything normal or in the center.

I like people too much or not at all. I've got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.

I don't like compromises. I will give everything.

When I do something I have to do it all the way - that goes for music, with a high-hat, a snare drum, a rhyme, everything. I have to push it to the extreme. That's how I realized I have addictive behavior. Somebody told me this once, that the thing that makes me bad is the same thing that makes me good at other things.

If you're going to try, go all the way. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives, jobs and maybe your mind.

You can't just live cautiously, I think, when you're in a knockout game.

I'm an extremist. I don't do things in halves. I don't moderate anything. That can be with work or with good things as well. But often, I take it a bit too far.

It is either easy or impossible.

He [Theodore Roosevelt] acted upon the maxim that half a loaf is better than no bread. I believe that half a loaf is fatal whenever it is accepted at the sacrifice of the basic principle sought to be attained.... A half-way measure never fairly tests the principle and many utterly discredit it.

I'm constantly trying to be strong, to be calm when things get tough. The biggest part of that is keeping things in perspective, not being afraid of playing long matches, not putting too much pressure on yourself. It can't be all or nothing, right here, right now.

I'm like a pitcher. I'm either on or off.

New York is not like London, a now-and-then place to many people. You can either not live in New York or not live anyplace else. One is either a lover or hater.