Motivation Quotes

I guess I have no motivation to make an abstract painting, even if they sometimes read as abstract. I think, with abstraction, it's easy to fall into a sort of pastiche.

Lacy was a pleasurable fight. It wasn't my hardest fight because I won every single minute of every single round.

When you get a poem [in a public place], it happens to you so suddenly that you don't have time to deploy your anti-poetry deflector shields that were installed in high school.

I've always been motivated to be a champion since the age of 13 and I love being a winner.

No secret man. Just starvation, hunger and diet.

I keep my feet on the ground, keep dedicated, keep focused, underestimate nobody and obviously you need the ability, talent and everything else that goes with it.

I'm devastated with the injury but I've proved my heart and skill to everyone by fighting one handed for eight rounds.

If I would've fought Andre Ward in my prime, I would've beat him.

He's a sore loser and he lost the fight.

I love the big fights. Obviously you can't fight just for the money but the money is nice.

The lacy fight was a career defining fight.

Alright, he's chucking his toys out the basket and Gary Shaw has a big mouth and shouts a lot.

There's no silver spoon treatment in this place.

I don't know if I have the patience and I don't have a trainers license but I will help out. Whether I want to do that full time, I doubt it.

I've been boxing for 25 years and I need exciting fights.

He's an old good fighter, he's an intelligent fighter but I wouldn't say he's the best I've ever fought.

The controversy was that Chad Dawson thought he was in an MMA fight and not a boxing match.

If I'm in a situation where Duane Ford is one of the judges, I have to pick it up.

It's not my place to say how good I was because the thing is, every champion from every era is a great fighter and it's up to one person's interpretation to who is actually the best.

The powers that be don’t want athletes or boxers to become as smart as they are.

I really didn't care. I'd do something to somebody and walk in front of them the next day like it never happened. I had very very low value on my own life.

The streets was basically my parents.

I've got a history of frustrating guys and making them angry.

I was told I would be back in 90 days. If I listened to people, I would be back where I came from - the penitentiary.

I've defended my title for eight years, let's see if Ricky (Hatton) is still champion in four years.

I wouldn't wanna fight me, because I know it wouldn't be a good outcome for both.

I honestly think that a Pavlik fight would be easier than Jones because styles make fights. He's one dimensional, comes in straight lines, I love that.

Judging by your performance at the Olympics, it don't look too bright for your future does it!

I've been eight years with this beautiful little thing and I've got a partner for him now. After eight years of trying to unify the titles, it's going to be pretty hard to give this up.

The Eubank fight was my hardest fight.

To retire at the top of the game, that's always been my aim.

But what was my motivation was music, and the fact that I love to move around. I'm always moving around.

My lowest points was getting injured and pulling out of fights.

Pour on, I will endure.

The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not

You don’t have to be in a boxing ring to be a great fighter. As long as you are true to yourself, you will succeed in your fight for that in which you believe.

Life is not fair, get used to it

People seem to remember the sacrifices they made more than what the sacrifices were for.

Good humor like the jaundice makes every one of its own complexion.

Don’t waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.

If you are not willing to learn, no one can help you. If you are determined to learn, no one can stop you.

I do not wish to avoid the walk. The distance is nothing when one has a motive.

...man's life must be a straight line of motion from goal to farther goal, each leading to the next and to a single growing sum, like a journey...

Self- reliance is the greatest of all virtues my friend.

Men do not become tyrants in order that they may not suffer cold.

However bad life may seem, where there is life, there is hope.

He might not take their advice, but he took their temperature.

I think the motive force of all our action is, after all, personal happiness.

Public services are never better performed than when their reward comes only in consequence of their being performed, and is proportioned to the diligence employed in performing them.

Lincoln learned to summon the passions, but he never addressed his audience as sweethearts.