"It doesn't matter where you come from, what you have or don't have, what you lack, or what you have too much of. "Sometimes people make it seem like you have to have certain prerequisites or a crazy life story in order to be successful in this world. But the truth is you really don't." "Every time I rise up, I have confidence that I’m going to make it." “We have to have the mentality that we have to work for everything we’re going to get.”18.