Nonito Donaire Quotes

You can have the perfect plan through the first punch but then you have to take the fight second by second.

I just said yes to opportunities that came my way.

As an idea occurs to me, I'll either follow it or not, but I'm more instinctive than master-planner about stuff.

I am more of a surprise kind of guy. I love to find out as I go.

I don't really plan. I'm almost intuitive about things.

I do things on a whim.

I like to keep my options open. I'm known for changing my mind.

I am a woman of the moment.

I rarely know too much about anything I'm getting involved in.

I'm not one of those actresses that asks what's going to happen. I've never been. I just take the scripts, and I see what's given to me, and I go with it that way.

Whatever comes my way, I appreciate and do my best at, and if it were to fade someday, I guess I would find something else. But I just don't plan the future, I guess.

I say the sweet science is to understand not only how to fight coming forward, how to be a big puncher, but also understand, if you run into a guy who can take your punch for the first time, how to react.

Most of the time, I don't like planning out too far ahead. I like to be spontaneous, make decisions, and go, 'Hey! That inspired me! I want to do more with that!'

I've never wanted to play the lead role; I make the most of whatever opportunities come my way.

I live by the seat of my pants.

I wanted to start in boxing, but you have to train a little harder to be a boxer. A lot of those guys can take punches. MMA, you only have to hit someone so hard to knock them out.

If something sounds good, and I get a good feeling about it, I'll take it, irrespective of the fee being offered to me.

I've taken fights on one-day notice.

No, thank you, I don't mind the rain,' I said. I always lacked common sense when taken by surprise.

The gladiator lays his plans after he enters the arena.

Nobody does a lot of plotting. They can't. Everybody wants to do that in life, but I think it's almost impossible. Opportunities present themselves, and you say, "Hey, is this interesting to me?" Is this something you might want to pursue? Maybe you'll get it, maybe you won't. It really does have to do with a "one foot in front of the other" kind of thing, I think.

You want soldiers who, when they get to a river after a long march, don't start rooting for their canteen in their pack, but just dive right in.

You see something happening and you bang away at it. Either you get what you saw or you get something else--and whichever is better you print.

I don't really like to know what I'm going to do before I do it.

What is life unless you're having a good time? I don't really have a plan; I just try to dip my toes in different ponds.