I had people at Perrysburg High School in my life in Perrysburg who believed in me and told me I could do anything I wanted too, and I foolishly believed them.
Sam Jaeger
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BROWN My mom always told me I could do or be anything I dared to dream, and I always wanted to work in the... OCTAVIA SPENCER After reviewing the polygraph charts in private, the polygraph examiner told me that I had passed an... STEVEN HATFILL I told him I believed in hell, and that certain people, like me, had to live in hell before they die... SYLVIA PLATH My mother would cry about my blindness and the hopelessness of my ever seeing, but I told her I wasn... STEVIE WONDER I knew my trainer believed in me and I couldn't let Him down. SOURCE UNKNOWN The recruiters came and talked with us in school, and I remember it like yesterday. I wasn't interes... STEPHEN DAU In high school, in sport, I had a coach who told me I was much better than I thought I was, and woul... MIKE KRZYZEWSKI I have always had the feeling I could do anything and my dad told me I could. I was in college befor... ANN RICHARDS It's been extremely gratifying for me. If someone had told me in September that I would be in this p... FREDDY MEYER A lecturer once told me I could never be a director. I was 16. I believed him. PADDY CONSIDINE People believed the world was flat. I wonder who told them that. STEVE RAY COLLINS You were gullible," he said. And then, "When you were really little, you hated carrots. You wouldn't... JENNY HAN There probably wasn't a day that went by in high school that I wasn't bullied either physica... JEREMY SCOTT My wife believed in me when I wanted to leave a comfortable job and go chase my dream. She allowed m... BILL LESTER I'm just one of the kids, and all because the students at Hamilton Heights High School listened ... RYAN WHITE At 13, I believed these people were my friends. They were kind. They complimented me. They wanted to... JUSTIN BERRY My parents always told me I could be anything I wanted to be. CAROLE KING To begin with, I had to take my faith and my beliefs and set them aside, so I could take an objectiv... BROCK GILL My favorite subject was recess. Fortunately for me, I had a mother who believed I was smart. BEN CARSON I am a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let hi... ABRAHAM LINCOLN He asked me how many high school games I had coached. I told him it was around 780, and he said, 'I ... FLOYD CIRUTI I lost someone very close to me and afterward I believed I could have saved him had I been a better ... DAVE EGGERS Did I really read every single book in the school? My mother maintains I did. Maybe I just told the ... ANDY MILLER I would never, never do anything unless I believed in it. RIVER PHOENIX I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him... ABRAHAM LINCOLN I'm not certain, but I have a little gypsy blood in me. And my mother always told me that her gr... SAM RAIMI I will never forget the will of the people who believed in me wherever I went during the election ca... PARK GEUN-HYE In fact, my mom always told me because I was the daughter of an Army officer born overseas in Paris,... KAREN HUGHES When I finished Westlife, we had - Louie Walsh is still managing me - I was lucky to have options fr... SHANE FILAN I have kept a diary, WITHNAIL AND I When I realized I was having trouble reading, I was too embarrassed to ask for help. Some teachers b... FANTASIA BARRINO I always knew I wanted to go to NIDA. I think I was very fortunate, and I do doubt myself often, but... ESSIE DAVIS As a child, I was rather active for my age. Sensing something special about me, my father told me th... SUNIL MITTAL Until now, I was insecure and I believed what the people around me said in regarding what I should s... NAMIE AMURO Right from my childhood, I have believed in a Supreme Power. I don't know whether it has form, o... PAWAN KALYAN My parents raised me with a never-give-up attitude, telling me I could be anything I wanted to be. I... GRETCHEN CARLSON If someone had told me in high school that one day I'd write an historical novel, I would have r... NANCY HORAN I was very impressed by Walt Disney and the idea that you could have a dream and you could realize i... RYAN GOSLING I knew I had my chances this week, but with the strength of the draw here this year, if someone told... ARNAUD CLEMENT When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to ... JOHN LENNON When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to ... JOHN LENNON I know my father believed and my mother believed in and supported the suffrage movement, and I remem... ALICE PAUL So far in my career, I've achieved what I've achieved because I've believed that I could... CARMEN MARTON In my forties, my optimism was boundless. I had really good health and tremendous success which allo... PATRICIA CORNWELL I was forced to wander, having no one, forced by my nature to keep wandering because wandering was t... ROMAN PAYNE It was a big part of raising my stock. People thought I couldn't run a good 40. Proving people wrong... JOSH LAY I never even was in any of my high school plays. I mean, look at me. What role could they give me - ... JOHN MATUSZAK I came back because I had to. Because there was nothing wrong in the world except that I was getting... MAGGIE STIEFVATER When my mother took her turn to sit in a gown at her graduation, she thought she only had two career... SHERYL SANDBERG I've told you I don't live and die by the polls. Thus, I will refrain from pointing out that we're n... , IN THE NEW REPUBLIC Nobody said it was going to be easy, and nobody was right. , QUOTED IN ASIAWEEK MAGAZINE Beauty is the first test; there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics. , IN _A MATHEMATICIAN'S APOLOGY_ I stood there and stared, into the sky and at the city around me. I stood, hands at my side, and I s... MARKUS ZUSAK He said to me 'How come I haven't seen you in the classrooms or the hallways at the Junior High? I t... BILL SEABURY For most of my life, I believed that my father had broken many of my bones. They were emotional and ... IYANLA VANZANT The gaffer put me back in, and he believed I could still do it, so I was really happy about that, bu... WES BROWN Bernie believed in God. He believed that God wanted people to enjoy life to the fullest, not drench ... REBECCA MCNUTT It got to a point in life i let go of all the pointless people in my life, those who loved me, i sho... OLASOT I had a second-degree-blue-belt test, and I broke two boards with my right foot, and the next day I ... JILLIAN MICHAELS As a child, the best way to survive was to be still, to submit—to do nothing that might incur furt... CAROLYN SPRING I believe in me more than anything in this world. WILMA RUDOLPH I had never before met anyone who owned a telephone and believed in dragons. ANNA KAVAN To be allowed to come back to WWE is the greatest gift that's ever been given to me. Back in the... JAKE ROBERTS And then, a strangely comforting thought trickled through me—I had nothing, so I could do anything... RACHEL WARD I am suddenly comsumed by nostalgia for the little girl who was me, who loved the fields and believe... AUDREY NIFFENEGGER I asked her if she believed you could ever truly understand another culture. I told her the longer I... LILY KING My little brother and grandma told me I could sing. I used to sing in church, too. Not like in the c... BRYSON TILLER Like a lot of people who get into coaching, I was impacted by the people in my life. Certainly my fa... KIRK FERENTZ I don't think I ever thought of myself as Superman. But there were people who thought of me that... EMINEM In my high-minded and naive way, I believed the only books worth reading were the classics. MARIA SEMPLE In order to do 'Amores Perros,' I had to skip some time at drama school, so the director Ale... GAEL GARCIA BERNAL I believed God had wired me as a writer for a purpose, and I was squandering that purpose. I finally... TERRI BLACKSTOCK In high school, I had close friends who introduced me to Christ in a different way and to reading sc... AMY SCHLATTERBECK I didn't act in Israel, but I wrote plays at home and acted in plays at school. I tried to get a... ODEYA RUSH I believed in fictional characters as if they were a part of real life. Poetry was important, too. M... ALICE MCDERMOTT He always believed he could do anything. I think he can do whatever he wants. IAN SCOTT I never believed in much, but I believed in you NEIL YOUNG I wanted to entertain and make people laugh. I think it really hit in third grade, but once I was in... CHRISSY METZ It's amazing to think how powerful of a force optimism and hope can be. It's the thing that ... J. D. VANCE I had never played organized football before in my life. I was tossing a football at George Lane Par... CHAD MOORE Sam looked at me soft. And she hugged me. And I closed my eyes because I wanted to know nothing but ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY My father believed in astrology. His astrologer had predicted that his daughter would become a write... TWINKLE KHANNA My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me. JIM VALVANO I came from a family who believed in, in quotes, the Rights of Man: who believed that in order to ju... RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH My father wanted me to be a pharmacist like himself. 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