Quotes About Determination

I got into boxing because I wanted to fight Tyson.

I went to America and beat Shawn Porter, a guy that was being called a 'mini Mike Tyson' and that most people were saying was going to take over from Floyd Mayweather. I went to his backyard and ripped his title off him.

Mike Tyson as a kid was a mark, he loved wrestling. So that was something he loved to do when he had the opportunity to participate.

I thought the Mike Tyson story was beautiful and it drew me in. He was bullied, a small kid who started knocking out giants.

I wanted to look like Mike Tyson. But then I started to realize, in a twelve round fight, you must be patient.

When I came to the United States, I saw a lot of Mike Tyson. I would stay up and watch all of the Mike Tyson fights. A friend here said, 'You got to do Jiu-Jitsu. That's the thing.' I said, 'C'mon, Jiu-Jitsu would never beat Mike Tyson.' So, he showed me the Royce Gracie tape. I was so impressed with the thing.

Adrian Neville should expect absolutely everything out of me. Like I said, he is going to be facing Tyson Kidd at his absolute best. I've got nothing to lose, and there's nothing more dangerous than a guy with nothing to lose.

I look at Mike Tyson as a fighter. He don't go out there to play. He goes out there to hurt because he's in the hurt game. That's what I like about him.

Since I'm not a fashion model, there's a limit to how nice I can make myself. I don't regard myself as an ugly person, but I don't think of myself as someone who would choose to be a model. I'm somebody who might be, I'd like to think, a role model for people who want to become lawyers.

I'm going to be that gnarly guy that gets in somebody's face and makes it ugly. I'm a bit of a grinder.

I was never the best in my age group. I was like the Ugly Duckling because I am not beautiful to see but I always improved. That is my best skill.

I've been booed on stages. I'm a little bit tougher than to walk off a stage because someone says something ugly.

I've always been pretty independent, no matter what situation: good, bad, ugly, happy, sad. I dig deep, and I get over it.

Of course, people told me, 'Mikey, you will never be an actor. You don't have the look. You're ugly.'

You can't listen to what people who aren't musical have to say. When Anytime was released, I had bad reviews, and at first I was hurt. Your songs are like your children. You don't want to hear, 'Your kid is ugly.' But I knew the record was good and it would sell.

I was told my whole life, you're fat, you're ugly, you're never going to amount to be anything.

I learned to absolutely love the feeling of winning a tough match on a tough point or figuring out how to come back when I was down and win ugly. Walking off the court with a W just made me so happy.

If you want to compete for the Premier League title, you need to win ugly sometimes.

I don't mind if we play ugly and win, as long as we win.

The main thing is to be in the quarter-finals and it doesn't matter if you play beautiful football or if you're playing ugly football, you have to win.

If I had to worry about whether I'm ugly or short, I wouldn't get anywhere.

If you've got to win ugly, do it.

If we need to play ugly to win a match, we are going to do that.

If I only wanted money and a comfortable life, I would have stayed in Ukraine.