Quotes About Perseverance

I look back at my life fighting and I can't believe I did all that. This sport is totally nuts.

Doc Rivers kind of told me I'd be a head coach one day. I just kind of looked at him like he was nuts.

People are like, oh, you just hang out with Kim all day. No, I'm working on 39 businesses. It drives me nuts.

It's definitely been a long, long... long, long, long, long, long journey since I was selling burnt CD's out of my backpack in downtown Oakland.

I think too many obituaries have been written about me.

There's something about seeing this little inanimate object coming to life that's just very exciting. That's why with 'Nightmare' I held out for so long to do it.

Everybody in life has something that they get knocked down on. The object lesson here is not that you get knocked down - it is that you get up.

The objective is to be competitive from March onwards.

I learnt a lesson that you mustn't worry what people think if you are achieving your objective.

I started this fight career with one objective. When I step inside a ring or an octagon, it is to beat the guy in front of me.

Everybody has some kind of addiction. It's about how you get around that addiction. First, you have to break the habit like anything. You have to define the hurdle or the objective.

I want to be known as a guy who breaks tackles; that's the whole objective of the game.

As quickly as you can go 4-1, you can go 1-4. And the whole objective is not to get too high and not to get too low. It's one thing to tell somebody that and explain it, but it's another thing to really buy in, to have felt that and understand what it means to stay even-keel. That's what you have to be in this league.

We take each game as it comes and just focus on the objective. All we can do is our best.

My only objective is to train hard and hopefully get a chance to play, and take it with both hands.

I'm trying to be the best lightweight fighter in the world. That's my main objective. I just have to keep my head up, keep training and enjoy this awesome ride that I'm on.

The objective is to help my team-mates, the more minutes on the pitch and the more games I play, the better.

I'm going to go into every game trying to win. That's always going to be my objective. I'm going to go into anything I do trying to win. I'm going to instill that in everybody I come across.

The Ballon d'Or is one of my objectives, but it will be complicated so long as Ronaldo and Messi are around.

That has been the concept to my life - setting very high objectives and trying to fulfil them.

Always, you have these objectives when you are young. You think you can be the best, and that's what I have to be because, if not, I'm not playing football.

No matter what age you are, as a fighter, your obligation is to win.

I've always been able to work. I think it's an actor's obligation to keep working if you can.

As a professional, you have an obligation to rehabilitate yourself as fast as you can.