LL Cool J
If you do cardio one day and the next day you can do weights, do it that way. If you need to do it at night or in the morning, do it that way. Whatever you need to get it done, just get it done.Collection: Morning
I think fitness is important. I think a healthy lifestyle is important. I think putting positive energy out there is important and just staying connected with the people.Collection: Positive
Stay focused, go after your dreams and keep moving toward your goals.Collection: Dreams
I am what I am, I'm doing very well in my life, and I'm thankful to God for that.Collection: Thankful
I think when you move past your fear and you go after your dreams wholeheartedly, you become free.Collection: Dreams
Dreams don't have deadlines. I'm thinking of doing bigger and better things and having more fun with it.Collection: Dreams
I'm not trying to be new school and I'm not old school - I'm classic. There's a lot of new cars and there's a lot of old cars, but I'm just classic in doing what I do.Collection: Car
You can't let your past hold your future hostage.Collection: Future
When adversity strikes, that's when you have to be the most calm. Take a step back, stay strong, stay grounded and press on.Collection: Strength
I don't wanna abandon my identity as LL Cool J, but at the same time, I had to figure out how to let people know that I'm really serious about making these movies.Collection: Cool
I'm not trying to keep up or adapt. I'm allowing myself to grow, evolve and create new music.
You have to always continue to strive no matter how hard things get, no matter how troubled you feel. No matter how tough things get, no matter how many times you lose, you keep trying to win.
Our world is at the crossroads. We have a choice, right and wrong.
To know the rules of the game, you have to be educated.
Do what you love; you'll be better at it. It sounds pretty simple, but you'd be surprised how many people don't get this one right away.
I try to do the right thing with money. Save a dollar here and there, clip some coupons. Buy ten gold chains instead of 20. Four summer homes instead of eight.
I think that politics could be a positive thing. My beef is that people focus on the personal aspect of a politician too much. They should focus on the results.
I do about 90 percent of my own stunts, and the things I can't do for insurance reasons, like swinging out of a flying helicopter, I wouldn't want to do anyway.
Stand up and face your fears, or they will defeat you.
Once you achieve one goal, you should be looking forward to trying to build onto the next thing, and not just getting comfortable with what you're doing.
I've never been one to have to manipulate women. I always want it to be like a mutual thing, like everybody loves everybody.
I don't look back. I don't live my life in the rear-view mirror because, if you do, you're bound to end up wrapped around a pole somewhere.
I only do what comes from the heart.
We're going to raise a lot of money for cancer awareness, give some to the American Cancer Society and hopefully make a big difference.
People will feel the way they feel.
I think the guy who has had the better films is Will Smith. I don't know if he's a better actor than me. I don't think so. I am a rapper first. Man, I just love what I do. I am just the greatest and I can't help it. I'm sorry man.
Sometimes altering your position is the right thing. Sometimes it's not.
What I like to do is just make good music, good movies, hopefully perform a good show full of energy and just have some fun.
I don't think you should go around talking trash about people because I think that's how you get your hat handed to you.
As a black man, my hope is that I can touch more and more people all over the world of different races and different colours.
I am a real person that cares about his art and cares about what he's doing - I have a heart and a soul and want to touch people and give.
I'm good at what I do, but I wouldn't be so bold and arrogant as to say something disrespectful about, say, Eminem. He's talented and he's good at what he does.
I've got to see my movie to see how I'm acting, see what little things I can learn about my craft.
I just look at the high and bright side of things.
I was listening to Jimi Hendrix; I just admire his artistry and creativity as an artist.
I'm not just a rapper. I'm an entertainer. That's the difference.
That's one of the good things about music. You get to do it live, where you can touch the people and interact with them.
Hip-hop can be limiting and I refuse to accept limits.
I think I'm the best, of course. How could I not?
There's a lot of single black women who did the best that they could and that's a beautiful thing, but they don't know how necessary a father is in a kid's life and how much guys miss that deep down inside.
Once the referee throws the ball in the air, it's either your ball or their ball and you have to just take your shot.
I'm not giving up my history and what I've done in my music because I love it and I'm very proud of it. I just want to open it up for more people.
I just like to do different things. What is more important than the name is that people know that I really like acting, I enjoy it and I want people to know that I am serious.
The nature of the game is pain.
Hip-hop's always reached out to kids. If you look at the last 10 big albums it might seem ironic. But when I look at the history of this music it's always had a lot of positivity.
I feel like my peers now are artists like Madonna and the Stones, Michael Jackson and Prince. These are people who were able to take their careers beyond the normal here-today-gone-tomorrow life span.
What I don't do is try to like become whoever I'm rapping with. The people who go get an LL album want to hear LL.
The secret to it all is just to enjoy what you're doing. This is not working at the coal face, this is not sweeping behind a restaurant. It's work, but it's not work. It gives me a different type of energy. I'm grateful for that.
You don't need to be the good guy to get a good message out.
At fourteen, I started sending out demo tapes.