Boxing is a glorious sport to watch and boxers are incredible, heroic athletes, but it's also, to be honest, a stupid game to play. Even the winners can end up with crippling brain damage. In a lot of ways, hustling is the same. But you learn something special from playing the most difficult games, the games where winning is close to impossible and losing is catastrophic: You learn how to compete as if your life depended on it. That's the lesson I brought with me to the so-called "legitimate" world.
Jay-ZYou can want success all you want, but to get it, you canโt falter. You canโt slip. You canโt sleep. One eye open, for real, and forever.
Jay-ZEverything evens up, you just wait, Even a garbage can gets a steak, You ain't even a garbage can, you have faith!
Jay-ZTreat my first like my last and the last like my first and my thirst is the same as- when I came.
Jay-Z