Quotes About Motivation

I've always mid-lined myself where I don't really expect myself to do big things or to win big fights. It's not a lack of confidence, it's just that I think to an extent that you need a bit of an ego if you're going to think that you're going to conquer something.

As long as I keep doing what I'm doing, I'll get the fights I need and get the legacy that I always dreamed of.

Logically money is important in a boxer's career. That is why one fights.

I just want to make money, get on with my life, and be involved in good fights. If I'm not going to be involved in good fights, then what's the point being a boxer?

People see me because I'm winning my fights. That's how I want people seeing me.

With the fights I have lost, I always want another shot and think that I can beat them.

Too many guys are over here begging for people and trying to chase people to fight, this and that, begging for money fights. You become your own damn money fight.

If you paid me $2 million, I'm sure I could lose my belly. But I don't get paid to look a certain way. I get paid to win fights. That's what I concentrate on.

I don't ever think about, 'Aw, man, my legacy. My legacy this.' No, I just want to fight the best fights out there to fight just to prove to the world that I'm the best fighter in the world.

I saw my first UFC fight when I was 15 and figured, 'This is what I want to do when I grow up.'

It kind of came a little bit easier in Nationwide once I figured out what I needed to do driving-wise.

People get distracted by box-office figures and take jobs because they think it will advance their careers.

I've always been driven, and I like the creative aspect of figuring things out.

That's a part of success: figuring out what success means to you.

I bought a book with guitar tabs and forced myself to learn. I would go to school and then come home and sit in my room for hours figuring out the songs.

To just slow yourself down, just to not do anything and drive around - I'm not like that. I'm not here to fill up the field.

I didn't go to film school.

I think you get out of film school what you put into it. If you don't care about making movies, film school will do you no good.

After film school, I would write 8 hours a day on film and 8 hours a night on TV, and then sleep once and a while.

I did not go to film school.

As a filmmaker what you can hope to do is doing what drives you.

For a documentary filmmaker, I do very well.

I wanted to be a filmmaker since I was a kid. I always did things that took me a little closer to that.

Filmmaking is all about people management.