Motivation Quotes

What's the point being the best fighter on the planet if no likes you?

As long as I've got the love of the fans, that means everything to me.

If you can't sell tickets you'll struggle.

I'm a Mancunian born and bred and I feel I'm no different to the man in the crowd and it's nice to reward them. I want to become a great champion.

If you want to watch two guys knock hell out of each other, watch us.

It's unbelievable really. For something that started off as a hobby, I ended up getting paid for doing it.

You can't let a man like this beat you.

I've waited almost 10 months for this revenge, I know I deserve it.

I had to come to the United States to prove myself. I fought for a long time in England and a lot of people thought I was a protected fighter.

David Haye is too light. Simply too light. He's not a real heavyweight.

I don't like all this talking in the press.

If Chisora wants to kiss me, OK, if he likes me so much, but the best answer for him will be an answer with a fist in the ring.

He's a good sportsman but his best at world trash talking.

I think my greatest achievement in boxing is my following.

I think if you get the opportunity to try and become the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world and you turn your back on it, then you're a bit of a fraud.

The fans only don't support me cos of the way I fight, they support me cos of the way I am.

If I could've made Muhammad Ali smaller I would have fought him.

I've never had any intentions of taking a break (from boxing).

There is one thing that I feel I still have to do and that is gain revenge over Lennox Lewis. If Lewis came back I would find the motivation to return to boxing and beat him.

I think that headband and that brylcreem and that gel on his hair will do him no good should we get it on.

All human behavior, all human motivations, all man’s hopes and fears, were heavily colored and largely controlled by mankind’s tragic and oddly beautiful pattern of reproduction.

The other champions don't want to fight me. Every single one.

Love is the dynamic motivation behind every worthy purpose; it is the upward thrust that lifts men to the heights.

I don't know about habit, we've had a practice of it for as long as I've been doing this program [the Rush Limbaugh show], and a lot of the motivation for it is defensive.

As a matter of history great developments in art have often been remarkably separate from religious motivation and use.

The men who seem to know most of God's power have had great, unspeakable longings, at times, for a fresh consciousness of that power.

They wanted to wait, to improve, to get better, when he's already a world champion. And that's a mistake. That's a chicken attitude.

I've lived with pressure all my life. I enjoy it.

With actors, normally I don't like to have any conversation about background and about motivations and all this.

Chavez will hit the canvas. He will be sitting in his corner, or with the doctor or referee stopping the fight. There's no other outcome.

History says that I'm one of the best pound-for-pound, and I won't stop until I'm number one.

I hope that not one of them ever wanna even think about boxing.

I've won my last four matches by knockout. Out of 30 fights, I've won more than 20 by knockout. I think that a ballet dancer wouldn't win by knockout.

Sorry to disappoint you but I don’t even watch the Olympics no more.

To be world champion brings fame. The fame brings good things and bad things too. I try to take the good with calmness.

You have a lot to learn before becoming a champion. Once you are champion, you must accept the consequences.

It makes me feel good. Being a foreigner, (the American fans) they make me feel like I'm a citizen of this country.

In general, we do well to let an opponent's motives alone. We are seldom just to them. Our own motives on such occasions are often worse than those we assail.

When you smile you don't only appear to be more likable and courteous, you appear to be more competent.

Mentally, he's not the same person anymore (Paul Williams).

No. He'll get hurt, and he's a good person.

There are three things, after all, that a poem must reach: the eye, the ear, and what we may call the heart or the mind. It is the most important of all to reach the heart of the reader.

Stop talking to people about what you will do; show them instead what your are doing.

Every failure is just another step closer to a win. Never stop trying.

I'll keep waiting because I'm a young man. I'm not as old as they think.

Those caught in the cycle of self-concern suffer helplessly, while the compassionate are more free and, implicitly, more happy.

Failing is a judgment that we humans place on a given action. Rather than judgment, substitute this attitude: You cannot fail, you can only produce results.

Once you have a very, very large budget, you actually look for expensive things to spend it on.

He can't take back what he said on Twitter, that he will fight me.

This idea that failure is not an option: It makes failure invisible, inconceivable and inevitable.