Quotes About Determination

I feel great at 145. This is my division. I'm open to fight anybody.

I'm doing my job; I'm fighting for the flyweight division.

People told me I couldn't play Division I football.

I'm going to be a Ronda Rousey in the strawweight division. They'll call me 'JJ' instead of 'RR.'

Anybody in the division's top 15 I would love to fight.

I want to fight the best guy. I don't want there to be any question that I beat the next best guy in the division.

I believe I can beat everybody at every division, I truly do.

I'm in a tough division and I want to show I'm the best in it.

I had to start all the way down the divisions and that is really difficult. You might be playing well and having great performances - but nobody ever watched us.

When I was a kid, people who got divorced were people who had no gumption.

You hope you're good enough to win a major, you think you're good enough to win a major, but not until you win one do you know that you're good enough to win a major.

Any time you go out there and compete, you want to do your best.

You do your best but I think I'm going to try and get back in as a batsman first, spinner second.

It doesn't matter who it is, everyone wants to compete, everyone wants to win and you have to do your best because if you let up for one second something bad will happen to you.

I was going to college to be a doctor.

Doctors didn't know what to do with me.

I'm not really good with authority, but you know, when the doctors said that I won't be playing professional tennis again , it was another, sort of another thing in my life where I'm going to prove someone else wrong.

I wouldn't be boxing if I wasn't given the all-clear by the doctors, I wouldn't put my family or myself through that.

One of the things I always tell people is that when it comes to fighting and fight week, then I'm there for one purpose, and that's to fight and get the hell out of dodge.

I'm not a complainer, I'm a doer.

I'm very dogged when I believe in something. I'm also dark and twisty.

When you're not doing good, the world's going to be against you.

I didn't have a dollar to my name in 2006.

It wasn't that I didn't think I could hang with the guys at 185 or 205. I just thought I'd be the more dominant guy at 170. I'm not afraid of anybody in any weight class. That has never been an issue.