Quotes About Self-reliance

Some athletes feel they have to show they're confident and talk about what they're going to achieve. I don't think there's anything wrong with just quietly believing in yourself and just getting on with it. You don't have to talk about it all the time; you want your performances to show for it.

I'm going to do everything I'm supposed to do - except roommates. No roommates. I quietly paid for my own room on the road. I didn't want to tell anyone.

Never get involved with a business that you can't really be hands-on - that if your employees quit, you can't run yourself. If I can't cut hair, why open a barbershop?

I won't quit to become someone's old lady.

The thought has crossed my mind to quit even dealing with organized mixed martial arts in general and just fight my own fights, however I feel like.

Before the McClellan fight, people were worried. Since that fight other people say I should quit but I think people should just keep their noses out of my business.

I'm quite confident, in some sense.

One of the things that I was always, and still am, is quite resourceful.

If you give children the freedom to do very little, quite a lot will do very little.

I've always believed in myself, quite frankly, and believed in my abilities.

Everyone has to run their own race and make their own decisions.

I don't play no one else's game and I don't run no one else's race because if I did that, I wouldn't be who I am.

When I crash during a race and injure myself, what's the point in whinging? Because I put myself in that position. No one's making me race motorbikes - I want to go and race motorbikes. The most annoying thing for me is lying in hospital and not being able to get to work. I get beside myself.

At the time I was asked if I would ever step back in a race car, but what was very important for me was to go into the bathroom and pee on my own, but I could not do that. I had to be helped. That was my number one priority.

I remember my dad telling me that if I wanted to start racing motocross, I had to get a job and pay for it myself. So I did. As soon as I was able to drive myself to work, I got into racing motocross at age 15.

There are too many leaders anointed because they have a public voice - television, radio, or record, or whatever. That even includes myself. In the past, I'd say, 'Don't anoint me when you can anoint yourself.'

Today there are paparazzi out, I'm doing a day of press, I'm in a hotel, I've just been on Radio 1. But when I'm in my day-to-day life people don't know who I am and I'm left to my own devices.

What I don't like is the way people automatically think I am a kept woman, that he pays my expenses. This puts me in a rage. I've always paid my own way, even while living in his mansion. I've kept an apartment of my own. In fact, I not only buy my own clothes, but many of Hef's, too - he just hates to shop.

My mother told me to raise my kids with calculated neglect. They get their self-worth from doing what they can do and not having everything done for them.

I was raised to be independent.

I basically raised myself.

I was raised by a single dad, and I've always kind of liked things that are typically more guy-oriented.

I was raised an Episcopalian. And I did not and I don't believe that anyone is looking out for me personally.

People have to take control of their own lives. Education is key because it also raises other social indicators like healthcare.