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Born on September 11, 1965, Eric Thomas is a renowned football player. He has achieved remarkable success in the football world, having played for several top clubs and shining on the international stage.

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“Las Vegas doesn't allow ( tourism ) to dictate the social norms of their community. We don't have to be a boring town that no one is willing to come to. ( But, ) we can't let tourism be the reason for not taking action. Accountability is not there. As a community we can be different. We don't have to be what our visitors are. We can work at policies that will make us a vibrant healthy resort community.”

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“No Alarm Clock Needed. My Passion Wakes Me.”

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“Hard and impossible are two different things!”

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“I think my greatest strengths are my hands. I am also good at getting separation from the defender and finding ways to get open. I am also a good route runner.”

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“Every time I am on the field I am a threat to make a big play. I am going to do my job every day and can be relied upon.”

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“You can have, you can be, you can do whatever you want to do once you make the decision, so that would be my greatest piece of advice.”

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“Life happens to all of us. It's not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us that really decides if we're going to be victims or if we're going to get and have everything we've ever dreamed of.”

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“I've never wanted to be a doctor, I've never wanted to be an engineer, I've never had that goal, but when you're around people who are successful, you kind of feel some type of way like, I don't want to be a doctor or lawyer but I do want to be successful.”

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“Your success is not dependent upon a board of advisers, it's not dependent upon motivational speakers who've gone before you,they're living their lives, they're taking care of their family, they're doing what they have to do to be successful, nobody owes you anything, that was the biggest lesson for me.”

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“So that's the biggest lessonsI've learned it is your dream, you do not need a business loan, you do not need the support of others, you need to do what you need to do and when you become, what do I want to call the word, like legitimate, when people see that you are real, then people will support you, but you can't ask them to take a risk on you.”

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“When you want success as bad as you want to breathe, then you will be successful.”

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“I don't ever want you to settle for another average day in your life.”

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“You're trying to do big things and you ain't mastered the little stuff!”

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“Work on it every day! Even when you down and out! Even when you not feeling it, still do it!”

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“Success and average don't have nothing to do with each other.”

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“That most of you say you want to be successful, but you don't want it bad. You just kinda want it. You don't want it badder than you wanna party. You don't want it as much as you want to be cool. Most of you don't want success as much as you want to sleep!”

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“You'll never be successful until I don't have to give you a dime to do what you do.”

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“I dare you to be great! I challenge you to be great in every single thing you do!”

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“Where there is no struggle, there is absolutely no progress”

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“You cannot sleep with the enemy and be successful...Every cord that binds you to failure, every cord that binds you to fear, you gotta cut it!”

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“You might be smarter, your family might come from privilege, your daddy might own a company, but YOU WILL NOT OUT WORK ME!”

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“If you are not where you want to be DO NOT QUIT, instead reinvent yourself and change your habits.”

Ifs Want Habit Quitting Reinventing Yourself

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“I kind of knew that there were a lot of people that didn't go to church and normally wouldn't listen to people, but they would come and listen to me talk.”

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“I tell young people all the time because they think I'm an overnight success I've been doing this for over 20 years! And that means inspiring and motivating people.”

People Thinking Years Mean Young Overnight Success

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“I started as a GED instructor, I created my own GED program, and I realized that a lot of young people that don’t do well academically. It’s not that they don’t have the competency to do it or the skill set to do it; it’s just that they weren’t motivated to learn. They weren’t interested in school, so I started just talking to students and just really going in on them like, “Yo, this is life or death.””

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“I’m discovering that the people that wake up early are really the trendsetters. They are up giving the commands on what the whole world needs to do, so the worker wakes up at 8AM, but the dreamer, the innovator, the creator, the engineer is up at 3 or 4 in the morning making it happen.”

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“Yes I'm a worker, but I'm working on what I'm passionate about and what I believe in not what someone else is passionate about!”

Believe I Believe Workers Passionate I Believe In

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“Work! Look at the secrets to success, look at your family, your community, your culture, take a look at what they have done to be successful and don't fool yourself. Don't think that you are going to get success on discount.”

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“One of the things I know about my family, my generation, and my ethic background is that we put in work and I'm not just talking about just to eat. You have to think about the civil rights movement, they were putting in work; marching, walking miles and miles, sacrificing, getting on the bus, feeding one another, they had schools, voter registration, they were working! They were hard workers so my advice is to work.”

“Understand the value of work and know that you get out of life what you earn. Some things have to be taken, its not given to you, they are not handing out multimillion dollar contracts or degrees, you have to use your brain!”

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“I don't just work! I think about my work, reflect on my work and think of what changes can I make, how can I elevated my game.”

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“Get passed the low hanging fruit. Anybody can grab that! Elevate your thought process and your mind and be creative.”

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“I just want my kids to see that when you serve and put other people first and invest in other people it will come back!”

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“We live in a society that says "You Gotta get yours" and I'm not suggesting that you don't handle your business but I want to show people... Gandhi gave, Mother Theresa gave, Martin Luther King gave, Rosa Parks gave, Sojourner Truth gave, and these people had a rich life! They may have not had a Rolls Royce, Range Rover, or lived in the best neighborhoods but they changed history forever and they changed lives forever and that's what I aim to do.”

“I want to change as many lives as I can, I want to help as many people as I can and I want to let people know that serving and doing for people is not outdated and certainly not overrated!”

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“Hip hop is ever changing and has definitely entered a new era. Many fans have mixed feelings over the direction of rap as more and more artists are emerging with content that some would describe as less than meaningful.”

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“I've got the opportunity of a lifetime. Some great things are happening because of momentum and I'm just trying to seize the moment.”

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“I kind of grew up with hip hop and of course being from Detroit I'm a Motown man. Music is in our blood. When you're from Detroit, music is in your DNA.”

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“I've come to realize that when people are not reaching their highest potential or whatever goals they set out for themselves, they're more inclined when they're going through pain. When they're going through a negative situation. They're more inclined to hear me than when they're doing well.”

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“Sometimes success breeds apathy. Sometimes when you're doing quite well for yourself you're not as tough as you need to be.”

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“We don't have the power as humans to determine which day we die. We don't get to make that decision.”

Humans Dies Decision Determine

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“Every morning I wake up, it's kind of like wow, I don't know what happened or how it happened, I can't put my finger on it, but I'm grateful. I'm grateful to be alive. To spend one more day with my family. One more day to make my dreams become a reality. One more day to help somebody. So the first thought on my mind is, thank you god for another day.”

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“Before I die, I want to help as many people as I can make their dreams become a reality.”

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“I've got a reason for living. When I wake up, there are individuals who are counting on me to be my best and live my maximum life.”

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“Innovation is rewarded. Execution is worshipped.”

Innovation Execution

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“I'm like the LION, i'm not the GAZELLE”

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“If you are going to win the fight of your life, you can't be afraid to fight.”

Ifs Fighting Winning

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“I was born to speak. I got in trouble as a kid for talking. I already knew it was a strength.”

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“There are 86,400 seconds in a day. Those seconds are critical.”

Critical Seconds

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“You have to want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe!”

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About the Author

Born: September 11, 1965
Known for: Football player
Quotes: 200

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