Quotes About Dedication

When you want the belt, you have to work for it.

I grew up doing martial arts, and I'm a second-degree black belt.

I'm a black belt in tae kwon do.

I started training in martial arts when I was 7 years old. I got my first black belt at 13.

There is a lot to managing, and with almost four years under my belt, I believe I'm ready.

I had a black belt in Shotokan as a kid.

I want to secure my name. I'll fight who I have to fight for the belt.

I want the undisputed belt.

I'm not going to fight unless it's for a belt. Nothing else matters but the belt.

A lot of people say they don't care about the belt, but that's not true. For me, when I say it, I really mean that.

Anyone in the UFC, that should be your goal, to get the UFC belt and to fight for that title.

I need that 147-pound belt.

My goal is to get the belt, the UFC belt.

In any human endeavor, some fraction of its practitioners will be motivated to pursue that activity with such concentrated focus and unalloyed passion that it will consume them utterly.

The zealot may be outwardly motivated by the anticipation of a great reward at the other end—wealth, fame, eternal salvation—but the real recompense is probably the obsession itself. This is no less true for the religious fanatic than for the fanatical pianist or fanatical mountain climber. As a result of his (or

We understand that honor, truth and hard work win in the end. We are Montana.

Yet Lincoln could not rest. He could not stop. He ran the race. He could do no other.

What we do, when we fuck up, we don't lose our job. We lose our vocation.

Love what you do. Get good at it. Competence is a rare commodity in this day and age. And let the chips fall where they man.

Success at sports is the province of the almost empty head.

three Crossroads sophomores were shoveling snow with a zeal that suggested their work was voluntary.

Sometimes you imagine something for so long, you find that you have no choice but to do it.

Among novelists I know, no one is more ambitious than I am.

People who devote their lives to studying something often come to believe that the object of their fascination is the key to understanding everything.