You can't break poor people mentality. Once you grow up poor, you don't take anything for granted. It can have the negative side also because you can never truly be relaxed.

There are so many people who have lived and died before you. You will never have a new problem; you're not going to ever have a new problem. Somebody wrote the answer down in a book somewhere.

One of my teachers used to call me Prince, because I always had a way of charming myself in and out of different situations.

I've always considered myself to be just average talent and what I have is a ridiculous insane obsessiveness for practice and preparation.

There ain't no problem that some other dude didn't have 1,000 years ago.

So if you stay ready, you ain't gotta get ready, and that is how I run my life.

When you're running and you are there, there's a little person that talks to you and that little person says “Oh, I'm tired”, “My lounge's about to pop”, “I'm so hurt”, “I'm so tired”, “There's no way I can possibly continue”. And you wanna quit. Right? That person, if you learn how to defeat that person when you're running you will learn how to not quit when things get hard in your life.