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.

Smith (1995)
LL Cool J starred in In the House an NBC sitcom before releasing Mr. Bigger and Deffer (1987)
LL Cool J's second album was 1987's Bigger and Deffer. The song also earned him a Grammy Award.

He has also appeared in numerous films including Halloween H20: 20 Twenty Years Later and currently stars as NCIS Special Agent Sam Hanna on the CBS crime drama television series NCIS: Los Angeles. James Todd Smith (born January 14 1968) better known as LL Cool J (short for Ladies Love Cool James ) is an American rapper entrepreneur and actor from Bay Shore New York.