Tiki Barber famous quotes

I grew up playing sports. There is a clear line between success and failure.
-- Tiki Barber

#Sports #Lines #Success And Failure

I have a need to do something and know I can be successful.
-- Tiki Barber

#Successful #Needs #Being Successful

If you run the ball, you control the clock. If you control the clock, you usually control the game.
-- Tiki Barber

#Running #Games #Balls

People go through life and make personal decisions and sometimes they don't work out. I won't be the first person to be divorced.
-- Tiki Barber

#Work Out #People #Decision

My family is everything to me.
-- Tiki Barber

#Family Is Everything #My Family

It's a basic, elemental universe, one of the last remaining zones where violence and domination sort out who is top dog. That's football's glory, and its curse. The game of football doesn't transfer well to the real world. You can't treat your friends, neighbors, or loved ones the way you treat your opponent on the football field.
-- Tiki Barber

#Football #Dog #Real

You get held to a high standard, almost an unmaintainable standard, in the public eye that you don't even come close to touching.
-- Tiki Barber

#Eye #Touching #High Standards

Marshall was a pioneering player. As a threat in so many different aspects of football, he revolutionized the way in which the running back position was played. He was the player that I wanted to emulate.
-- Tiki Barber

#Football #Running #Player

Every day is an opportunity disguised as a challenge.
-- Tiki Barber

#Opportunity #Challenges

Sport is how poor kids from poor countries pass through the eye of the needle to riches and recognition.

You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.

I didn't grow up a theatre kid, going to theatre camps. I played sports, and that was my main direction. But luckily, I never had to choose between sports and theatre.

You always catch the wrong players.

Basketball is my favorite sport, and I'm also a very passionate football fan.

Flying is more than a sport and more than a job; flying is pure passion and desire, which fill a lifetime.

Writers who drew, they all seemed to draw the same way. They managed to keep that childlike creativity in their line.

But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.

I think the two most difficult things to deal with in life are failure and success

I don't take success and failure seriously. The only thing I do seriously is march forward. If I fall, I get up and march again.