Quotes About Perseverance

This is show business. I know that winning is super important and a gameplan is super important, but at some point you have to, this is the hurt business and you gotta to try to put your opponent out.

I want these ranked opponents.

I fought three opponents in one night two or three times, but never five rounds.

You know why I'm so confident? Because I am working so hard every day. That's why I am different than the other fighters and my opponents and the challengers. That's why.

To stay in the UFC while fighting top opponents... tell me one easy fight I had in the UFC. I have a history in the UFC.

I've lost to some great opponents, and in some I have been robbed.

All the time, I said to my players, 'I don't care about the name on the badge or the name of the opponents.'

You can lose to any team and then beat your top opponents and still not be in the top four.

I want to beat all the opponents who have beaten me before.

I know all the opponents are behind me, so I should win every match, which is tough.

I think all of my opponents say that, I gas out or whatever. They have to say something about me.

I'm serious, I don't stay in the gym each day like my opponents.

We've got to make our opponents earn everything they get.

Every Bundesliga match is a new challenge, our opponents don't make it easy for us.

The Juventus that I know has always shown more hunger than their opponents.

At the end of the day, I feel like I've never had an easy break in terms of opponents.

I haven't fought the easiest opponents. You can show up at your best and still not come out on top.

When you're a scholar at the academy of a professional club everything is quite nice and easy. Then suddenly you're up against opponents who are playing to put food on the table and you realise it means that much more.

You have got to go through all of the opponents to get to the gold medal.

If I always fought dominating my opponents without being hit back some times there would be no fun in it. That's the fun part, to have a war, there has to be a war.

Chandler, just like myself, has spent most of his career in Bellator and he spent his entire time as a top fighter with people doubting his skills, his opponents and his results. He claimed he was No. 1. I relate to him.

I don't want to end up like some guys who have too much fun and start taking opponents for granted.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

There are no failures in life: only learning opportunities.