Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I’m past that age.

Don’t ever doubt yourselves or waste a second of your life. It’s too short, and you’re too special.

I break ground. I trailblaze.

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

I do have motivation. A lot of motivation.

My biggest criticism is how can people be so easily satisfied? Even people with talent.

You have to be someone.

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.

The battle is all over except the ‚shouting‘ when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

If we don’t succeed we run the risk of failure.

Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There’s plenty of movement, but you never know if it’s going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.

Imagine your family finally making it from nothing to something, and finally getting things going, and finally buying a beautiful house and taking care of your children – and the next day, it’s completely all gone. Zero. Boom. Flat broke. So that’s when I had to man up.

We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor – got her master’s with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure.

Don’t worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.

If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.

I’ve always strived to be successful, not famous.

I’m an entrepreneur. I’m a young mogul. I’m blessed.

An unused life is an early death.

He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.

Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.

I’ve actually taken companies public, I’ve actually busted companies, I’ve actually gone broke.

I don’t think you get successful to brag and throw what you have in the world’s face. That’s all private.

People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.

We aim above the mark to hit the mark.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

One of the things I realized is that if you do not take control over your time and your life, other people will gobble it up. If you don’t prioritize yourself, you constantly start falling lower and lower on your list, your kids fall lower and lower on your list.

I will be unhappy if I know I have not accomplished something I should have done that was possible.

When a person starts to talk about their dreams, it’s as if something bubbles up from within. Their eyes brighten, their face glows, and you can feel the excitement in their words.

I’m sure the feeling of fear, as long as you can take advantage of it and not be rendered useless by it, can make you extend yourself beyond what you would regard as your capacity. If you’re afraid, the blood seems to flow freely through the veins, and you really do feel a sense of stimulation.

I want kids to know: Don’t wait for somebody to come along and tell you you’re special. Because that may never happen.

There’s something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more we succeed in explaining what we know.

There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.

I always believe that there should come a time when your energy, speed, stamina should combine well with your brains.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

Bob Houghton is a great coach and I am confident that the national team will do well under him.

I wanted to sell a million records, and I sold a million records. I wanted to go platinum; I went platinum. I’ve been working nonstop since I was 15. I don’t even know how to chill out.

I think that at the start of a game, you’re always playing to win, and then maybe if you’re ahead late in the game, you start playing not to lose. The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

That nice, soft pillow and the warm blanket, and it’s all comfortable, and no one wants to leave that comfort – but if you can wake up early in the morning, get a head start on everyone else that’s still sleeping, get productive time doing things that you need to do – that’s a huge piece to moving your life forward.

Whatever that means, however you got on that mountain, why not try to climb it? And do it in your own way.

Whatever you do, do with all your might.

You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, ‚I release the need for this in my life‘.

I just figured out that if I gave my all into this game – if I put everything into the fight business – then I would eventually run the fight business.

Communication is a skill that you can learn. It’s like riding a bicycle or typing. If you’re willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of evry part of your life.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Perseverance is also key to success in any endeavor, but without perseverance in combat, there can be no victory.

As is the case with most people in this game, I am driven by financial motives and creative motives; the question I had to answer is which motive I will give priority to?

It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.

In a lot of ways, success is much harder than I thought it would be. I figured that you’d get here and then everything would be happily ever after. But, it’s hard work, almost harder once you’re successful because you’ve got to maintain it.

I don’t fight in chase of an individual. I hear this sometimes where fighters work their whole careers to reach a matchup with a certain individual. I do not think in that way.

I always put myself out there. I’m not afraid to commit to something.

We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay – and rise!

Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.

In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I’m always going to feel everything. It’s my nature.

What we think, we become.