Quotes About Achievement

People are moved by my story, but they're only moved by my story because of what I do on the court.

Most ballerinas take their first ballet class when they are 5 or 6 years old. I was 13 when I took mine on the basketball court of the San Pedro Boys & Girls Club in California.

It shouldn't matter, but I want to play the big matches on the big courts.

My mom, how she raised me, my brothers, my cousins, when I was a kid with one bedroom for 12 people... You think about all that, and God blessed me to get somewhere and do something I love and do something I've done since I was a kid. And blessed me with the talent to do it.

I want to be on the cover of 'GQ.' That's a personal goal.

It's every girl's dream to be a cover girl!

I've always played 'NBA Live' since I was a kid, so to be on the cover is a blessing.

You know you've made your mark when you're on the cover of a videogame.

I want to have my 11 or 12, 13, 14 belt picture. I want to be lying down just covered in them. I want a lot of them. I want my closets to be filled with UFC belts.

Running gets everything done, doesn't it? Covers it all.

For 10 years, I'd been told I was always going to be a catalogue girl, never a cover girl. Well, I got with IMG and did five covers in a year, boom, boom, boom.

Winning covers a lot of bad things.

I genuinely feel like, when people climb K2, it's everywhere in the news, everybody covers it.

At the end of the day, I am the cash cow in women's boxing.

I'm the cash cow now, man. It's the Cejudo way.

There's a big difference between me and a real, legitimate working hand, or a world-champion rodeo cowboy. I play 'em, and I aspire to be like that, but those guys are tough.

To try to crack into Hollywood, it's a dream come true.

'Airlift' changed a lot of things for me. It is a difficult film to make hit songs. So when I was able to crack that, I felt nice.

I'm not going to crack America.

Shrimp crackers are actually exactly what I was eating when I got the call that I was going to play Shang-Chi.

I became famous almost before I had a craft.

I didn't aspire to be just a celebrity; I aspired to be an actress... I always wanted to be respected as someone who knew their craft.

I want to be like a Christy Turlington, still doing my craft and still killing it. I want longevity and to be able to do this for a really long time.

I worked harder at my craft, and it took some time, but here I am today doing what I want to do, which is entertain people.