Quotes About Success

I have been part of fights where we have been told, 'You will not win,' and we have won.

I want the biggest fights possible. If guys don't want to fight me, then I can't get them. But it's not on me.

I want the big fights.

I don't ever think about, 'Aw, man, my legacy. My legacy this.' No, I just want to fight the best fights out there to fight just to prove to the world that I'm the best fighter in the world.

As soon as I found MMA, I knew that this is what I wanted to do, and it gave me focus because I was good at it anyway, and it gave me a goal to reach. I kept winning my fights, and it's given me a goal and a career opportunity.

All of these fights I've won, the pressure has been on me to go out there and get the win. I have to beat this guy and that guy, or I'm fighting in Brazil.

I want to get bigger and better fights, where people can recognize me as one of the better fighters in the world.

To cement your name, you've got to go after the biggest fights.

I want to have a big year. A big year, big fights, big contract, big money, big everything. 2017 is definitely my year.

On my way to winning the title, it was great for me, but once I won the title, it was tough for me to get fights.

Benson Henderson is a professional; he's a champion. He knows how to handle himself in the cage and he knows how to win fights.

Any fighter who is serious about boxing wants to be in those big fights, fighting the best fighters, with the whole country watching and talking about it.

I cannot forget my roots. That's what helps me win fights.

If you can figure out my success on the screen, you're a better man than I.

When things go right it's hard to figure out why, but when things go wrong it's really easy.

I want to be an artist, not be in the business of making hit records. Once I figured that out, everything became clear.

I just figured out that if I gave my all into this game - if I put everything into the fight business - then I would eventually run the fight business.

I've already figured out when I'm going to be No. 2 and No. 1.

People always ask me how long somebody can last as long as I've been lasting and continue to keep doing it, so I figured that people didn't really know how to do that.

Like pretty much every other ambitious person, I always figured I'd eventually move to New York. It is, at this point, half-dream and half-obligation for people trying to do big things. It's the American Dream inside the American Dream.

After my first book, I figured that since it was successful, I wanted to continue things better.

I think a lot of entrepreneurs think they need money to build the business faster when they actually haven't figured out the business equation yet.

It kind of came a little bit easier in Nationwide once I figured out what I needed to do driving-wise.

Once I realized music was working, I was getting money off of shows and I figured that I could find success through music.