Quotes About Challenge

Addiction is a really hard thing to kick.

Back when I was maybe 19, guys would go, 'I can kick your butt!' So I had a few showdowns. To my advantage, I learned martial arts, and what you really learn is not to fight.

The truth is that I want to fight in the old Pride rules, I want to kick guys in the face on the ground. With that rule, I think I can fight with anyone.

A lot of people can kick a ball a long way, but sometimes you get in a little funk and you work your way out of it.

I intend to go up there and kick the system over, not try to change it.

So when you put the kick in and the other runners go past you, it's game over!

I'll try anything. What are they gonna do, kick me out of show business?

I'm not like Henry Fonda. He lives to act. I've just had a dedication to do the best I could. When I don't have challenges, the days get long. But I do enjoy being on stage. If I do good work, I get a kick out of that.

I've always wanted to learn kick boxing.

I try to create a challenge for myself in each book. And sometimes, believe me, I just kick myself afterwards, and say, 'Why on earth did you ever attempt this, you idiot!' But I'm always better for the experience.

I am such a great gamer that seven-year-olds kick my butt.

If they want to kick the ball up in the air, I will challenge all day long.

You better not kick a field goal if you have a lousy defense.

I'm not aware if anyone's been told to kick me in training - but they are doing it anyway!

I've tried kickboxing, which was horrible - horrible meaning that it hurts so bad. It's horrible but it's such a great work out because you're so active.

Bill Goldberg kicked me in the head and ended my career because he didn't know what he was doing.

I was the first in my family to board an airplane. I was the first in my family to get kicked off an airplane.

I'm not making any excuses. I got my butt kicked in certain games.

I got kicked out of Harvard after three weeks.

I knew that in fighting, sometimes you get your butt kicked and sometimes, you do the butt-kicking. It was always a matter of trying to learn and trying to get better.

I like to grow and experiment, and as an artist, it's about kicking the bar up a little.

No one's kicking down the door to fight Bernard Hopkins.

If you make the bad guy enticing and dangerous, that's where the excitement of playing the role really kicks in. I don't get to do that in my normal day-to-day life. Life is too taxing to go to those dark places.

Barboza is up there. He's a scary fight, but I like being scared. And that's a fight that me, as a fan, would want to see. I know how much fans would love something like that. So I'll go out there and try to finish that dude with leg kicks.