Quotes About Success

I think the three Mexican directors that came before me did a very good job in Hollywood because they came in and started directing things like 'Harry Potter.'

It's like a badge of honour if you're a British actor and you get the 'Harry Potter' call. It meant a lot to me.

I'm on the road earning my money. I didn't get any million pound record deals. Not unless you're Jedward! I'm doing very well, but I still have a mortgage to pay off. So I'm on the road.

If I had a pound for every former editor who hadn't cut the mustard advising me what to do, I'd be a very rich man.

As a 16-year-old, I was 5-foot-5 and maybe 145 pounds. It was hard to believe a guy like that was going to make it to the big leagues.

I love it here, 145 pounds is my division.

I've caught fish as big as I am. I've caught marlin close to 300 pounds.

I made my first million pounds at the age of 26. As a little girl, I said I would retire when I had made my first million. The reality was different. When I did make it, I wanted to make another million, and another, and another after that.

There are many, many people who have lost 100 pounds and kept it off.

I made my living being 20 or 30 pounds heavier than the average model. And that's where I got famous.

I've not been paid millions of pounds for any fights. I've not made any money out of boxing.

I think I'm the best in the world at 170 pounds, so why would I need to go down? If, at some point, I beat everyone at 170, I'd consider going up. If I've eliminated all my challenges, yeah, at that point I would consider going up.

I was fighting at 125 pounds when I was 15 years old... then became a champion at 126 pounds at 25 years old.

I want the big money fights if I'm going to make 147 pounds.

I've had the belt and it's great. But at the end of the day it's just 12 pounds of leather and gold.

In my case, I never really thought about what it would be like in the WWE. I never thought I could make it to the WWE? especially being a Black man who is 5-foot-6 and 160 pounds.

Moving forward at 160 pounds, I feel like this where I should have been the whole time.

I think the first contest I did, I was somewhere just over 300 pounds. With my frame, I needed to add more weight and put more muscle on to get better leverage and be more successful. Just to get stronger, really. I had to work really hard.

I had a lot of my success due to appearing at the Garden. I wrestled there over 200 times, it's where I won the title, and it's where I picked up 630-plus pounds of Haystacks Calhoun.

Any organization that gives me a chance will get me. And I'll pour my heart into the organization and do whatever it takes to win football games.

If you invent the Mini Cooper, pour all your energy and passion into it and it gets made, you should be on a roll. In the film industry you have to start again the next day.

People ask for this life, but they don't really understand what comes with it. People just see the outside and that looks good - big houses, cars, girls, but you never see how the person is feeling deep down inside. Me personally, being a man, I'm going to feel better displaying all of this and pouring my heart out on each record.

You are not created for poverty.

There is a deep sadness to American poverty, greater than the sadness of any other kind. It's because America has such an ideology of success.