Quotes About Struggle

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

When I was in middle school and high school, I was over 100 pounds overweight.

Most people think I'm from New York or something. I was, like, 70 pounds heavier than what I am, and I didn't get no girls... I was definitely more on the deep fried crab than I was on the baked chicken side.

Sometimes I wish I could just fight at 155 pounds.

I cannot make 135 pounds healthily.

The worst 24- to 36-hour period of my whole camp, the part I like the least, is the part where I've gotta cut 13 to 15 pounds of water weight.

I find it so hard to lose weight: it takes me weeks and weeks of dieting and training just to lose three pounds.

I used to be 400 pounds.

My first opportunity in the UFC was to cut to 140 pounds. This was too tough for me, but by me going through that, it opened the door for a 145-pound division.

When I graduated high school, I was 150 pounds. When I first started wrestling, with the independents in California, every company is going to have guys, or in better shape. While I had gotten bigger, I was still only about 205, so I wasn't huge.

As a featherweight I was walking around at 155 pounds and would just have to cut those 10 extra pounds. I wasn't being very professional.

Although I do have advantages in the division, 154 pounds is getting kind of tough to make.

You can only get away with fighting as the lighter guy in a weight class for so long. That's what I was doing at 170 pounds.

I'm not a big man and never was. I came in at about 243 pounds and I played at times up to 260 so there was nothing I could have done to match the size of the defensive tackles.

I can easily make 125 pounds.

I don't think losing too much weight is healthy at all, but look who's talking. I used to lose 40-to-50 pounds.

The scripts don't come pouring in; I have to fight for every part.

I put a lot of money in a coin-operated dry-cleaning place and it keeps losing money and I can't get anybody to buy it. So I keep pouring more money Into it, and into the laundry next door which'my father owns.

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.

A lot of the time, you see all this ambition from these black actors, and it's just pouring off the screen. Because they don't often get a chance to work, and when they do, they don't usually get a chance to work with other black people.

Cancer can catch even the best of us off guard. Sometimes the emotions come pouring out. Sometimes they stay locked inside.

You are only as rich as where you come from, and Nigeria has a lot of poverty.

Nothing prompts creativity like poverty, a feeling of hopelessness, and a bit of panic.

Poverty is the root of all evil.