Quotes About Dedication

I have a healthy respect. The fact that I get ready for each opponent shows my respect.

What's important to us is developing the habit of playing harder than our opponent every night.

I think Cormier is a great opponent. He's a guy who has competed at the highest level of athletics and I'm going to have to train really hard for him.

I don't adjust my training for any of my opponents. I don't watch films on my opponents.

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.

My coaches do all the breakdowns of my opponents, and I leave that up to them.

I don't bash my company. I don't bash my opponents. I don't miss weight.

I don't have any ill will towards any of my opponents. I understand we are the highest calibre of athlete in this sport, and we will both go and give it our all. But I don't want anyone to misinterpret what I am saying: when we step into that octagon and we touch gloves, I am going to break his face.

People wonder why I dislike my opponents. It's not personal or that I hate them: it's just that I know what I've had to sacrifice to face them.

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

I don't feel the need to do anything other than what I've been doing, beating my opponents, getting some knockouts, keeping the fans coming. I don't need to do anything other than that.

I respect all my opponents and they do the same thing that I do to get ready for fights.

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.

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.

I was always blessed growing up with opportunities and access to facilities, equipment, and playing with my brothers in the backyard to be the best athlete I could be.

You get an opportunity to do something for your country, you better get out and do it.

I'm not opposed to auditioning. I love auditioning. It's one of my favorite things.

Having a performance goal is really fun because it gives you something to work for in every single session. As opposed to just thinking, 'Okay, I want to have abs,' you can build your way up through having performance goals to get abs and to get stronger all over!

It's my job regardless of what the opposing team does, which I really don't care, it's my job to go out and make the right plays.

I can be very difficult if people are not professional, or lazy - or the opposite, which is take themselves too seriously.

My job is to do exactly that with every player - to put him in a frame of mind where he is thinking only about his role and he is thinking about the team he is playing for and, of course, the opposition which we always respect.

The real legacy of Atal Bihari Vajpayee lies in the politics of opposition. The politics of opposition is the politics of dissent. From 1957 to 1996, he dedicated his life to exactly that.

The Opry takes dedication and it takes love. It takes love.