Roy Nelson Quotes

Successful people will always tell you you can do something. It's the people who have never accomplished anything who will always discourage you from trying to achieve excellent things.

I can't say I'm surprised I was successful. I was determined - and I got it.

During the off-season when you see other people playing in the Super Bowl, you wonder, and you say to yourself, 'Are you ever gonna get there and see what it feels like?' And it pushes you a little bit harder during that off-season to work to try to get there the following year.

Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success.

Deserve your dream.

If you believe in what you're doing, you'll be successful.

I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

Kids always need a role model. I let them know you can do it, too, if you really want to.

For anyone aspiring to be anything, I would like them to realise dreams require work. So work big time.

The Olympics show that your dream can come true if you work hard. It's not impossible.

If I can inspire people by showing that following a dream by working hard and being determined is possible, it's amazing.

I just get up in the morning and say: 'Yeah man, I'm ready to score goals.'

If you dream and you allow yourself to dream you can do anything. And that's what this Olympic medal represents.

There's no reason the Rangers can't get to the top.

What Fred Lebow went through was an inspiration for me. You have to set goals for yourself.

I arise full of eagerness and energy, knowing well what achievement lies ahead of me.

Dream big!

In my very first interview, at nine years old, I said I wanted to be an Olympic gold medalist. That was the first time I said it out loud in front of somebody other than my parents.

I write about the American dream: if you set your mind to do something, you can do it. My fans know they're getting the real thing.

Everyone's dream can come true if you just stick to it and work hard.

I started out with a dream to make a star in a jar in my garage, and I ended up meeting the President of the United States!

As a child, I was taught that you can achieve, and you can do anything you want.

If you deserve it, go get it.

I've always dreamed big.

I am very hopeful that my personal success in Qatar will ignite others, especially those in the so-called non-traditional sports, to try even harder because now they can see for themselves that significant achievements can be attained. But let me stress that it takes a lot of work - in fact, very hard work - mixed with very heavy doses of patience.