Quotes About Determination

I don't come from an Ivy League school or anywhere else.

I didn't go to Ivy League schools. I dropped out of college to go into movies.

Watching two men jib and jab for 12 rounds is not entertaining for me. I want action, knockouts, big shots, and people getting up off the canvas. That's my ideal fight.

People have tried to keep me at bay with their jab, but once I put that pressure on, there is only so much you can do.

Badou Jack is a puncher, but so am I.

Just because you get a show and it gets on the air doesn't mean jack. It certainly means that you'll be considered for stuff, but you've got to fight and claw to get every job.

I don't want to be jack of all, master of none. I want to focus completely and excel as an actor with every project.

Look at Bjorn Borg or Jack Nicklaus. Those guys really concentrate. With the world on their shoulders, they're so absorbed with what they're doing.

Man can be in Sahara desert - but I'm still going to wear the jacket.

I am a huge fan of Jackie Chan and I have seen the 'Police Story' series so many times.

Samuel L. Jackson is one of the best actors there is.

I really appreciate Greg Jackson. I'm going to stick with him until I'm done fighting, and that's it.

I don't want to become a jaded person, and I don't want to be complacent.

I am not afraid to go to jail.

If I wasn't a champion, I'd still be in jail. That makes me try very hard.

I got out of jail when I was about 17. You feel as if you're behind, so it made me feel as if I had to work doubly as hard as everybody else to try and make up the ground that I'd lost.

I never had to ask Def Jam for anything.

I always loved slow jams and wanted to make them, but didn't know how I could because I couldn't sing. Then Barry White made 'Love Serenade' in which all he did was talk the entire jam. I said, 'I can do that.'

My mum came to Britain from Clarendon, in the south of Jamaica, to make a better life for her family.

I want to be the LeBron James of baseball.

On one of our very first days when we tried rowing, our coach, James Mangan, showed us a video of the Boat Race. That was part of the impetus for us to start rowing.

Saw' was a film that James Wan and I came up with back in Australia and we were just hoping anyone, literally, anyone would make that film and if nobody would give us the money we were going to shoot it in a garage somewhere.

I can be the best James Bond there is.

Maybe I can become the next James Bond.