Quotes About Perseverance

I don't care about being the champ champ. I want to be the only consecutive 12-time defending champion in any mixed martial arts promotion.

I know people say I could be the next big pay-per-view star. They say that about a lot of fighters. To reach that, it takes a lot. Not just fighting skills, but marketing, good promotion.

To captain your team to promotion in one of the most gruelling leagues in the world is right up there, it goes very high on my list. It's something I'm immensely proud of - I don't think it quite sinks in.

When I defeated Soto Karass, I asked for a fight against Paul Malignaggi. A few months went by, and I saw that Golden Boy Promotions wanted to do a fight between Malignaggi and Shane Mosley. The truth is that it made me angry, but that's the way things are sometimes in the world of boxing.

The man who would forge to the front in this competitive age must be a man of prompt and determined decision.

I don't want to be that guy they say that's injury prone.

I'm living proof that you can make it out of the ghetto.

I was written off as a lost cause. But I'm living proof that miracles can happen.

I'm living proof that whatever happens to you in life, you can turn base metal into gold.

Here's proof that if you live long enough, anything is possible.

You hit road blocks in life, but I'm living proof that you can overcome those road blocks and become what you want to become.

If you love it, and work really hard at it, it will really happen, I believe. I'm living proof.

If anyone has a dream out there, just know that I'm living proof that they do come true.

If you pray enough for things, I am proof that they can happen. I feel like a kid on Christmas day now, every day. It's something I have wanted for a long time and I am as happy as anyone to be here. It is great to be back at my first love.

I am proof that one person can rise above any challenge, and if I can, then so will others if they are given the chance.

I make bangers all the time, and I knew it was going to come. My mom probably used to think it wasn't going to happen. My daughter's mom thought it wasn't going to happen, and a couple of girlfriends. You just gotta keep on doing it. I'm living proof.

If you believe in something and have the strength not to give up, it can happen. I am the living proof it can be done.

I'm gonna write a book. I'm going to explain over the past 30 years of my life of things that I endured and what I went through. And when I do, I promise you with everything that I am that people will not believe me. But I have factual proof of everything that has happened to me, and I have been able to overcome.

My son is living proof that those like him can not only be treated, but can live lives free of the pain that plagued them and the disease that controlled them.

I'm living, breathing proof that you can be anything you want to be.

My career's been a bumpy road, but at the same time I think I am living proof that if you put enough work into things you decide more or less where you want to end up.

I'm living proof that you can create your own life.

I'm still here, living proof that sometimes it's OK to admit to your fallibility.

People told me it was impossible to beat the Americans at their own game; there was a lot of politics involved and outsiders didn't stand a chance. But if you're good enough, nothing else matters - I'm living proof of it!