Jon Jones Quotes

I will keep smiling, be positive and never give up! I will give 100 percent each time I play. These are always my goals and my attitude.

It takes an inner strength to succeed.

No matter where I am, I know I have to keep trying my best.

I had so many outs in my career. I could have said, I don’t need this. I have money; I have fame; I have victories; I have Grand Slams. But when your love for something is bigger than all those things, you continue to keep getting up in the morning when it’s freezing outside, when you know that it can be the most difficult day, when nothing is working, when you feel like the belief sometimes isn’t there from the outside world, and you seem so small. But you can achieve great things when you don’t listen to all those things.

My motto in life is that nothing is impossible, no target unachievable - one just has to try harder and harder.

Don’t let haters get me off my grind. Keep my head up, I know I’ll be fine. Keep fighting until I get there. When I’m down and I feel like giving up I whip my hair back and forth.

Refuse to lose, Refuse to be defeated, Refuse to have regrets.

I'll always use the negativity as more motivation to work even harder and become even stronger.

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

As an athlete, you sort of just win every day. Because you're going to sometimes lose every day. And so you just keep picking yourself up and going forward.

I always knew that, even if I was not the most beautiful girl, I'd be the most energetic and hard-working. If you want to know the truth, that's the reason for my success.

It's doesn't just come overnight, you've got to train for it and believe in yourself; that's the most important thing.

Natural ability is important, but you can go far without it if you have the focus, drive, desire and positive attitude.

I'm going to go out there and do what I do and play football, and everything will work out.

I know if I train hard, focus, I can beat anyone out there.

There were good and bad times, but through all of the times I just kept working, and kept being in the gym, and kept believing in myself. And it all paid off.

I have always taken it very easy, believed in myself. Whatever I bring to the table, I put my heart and soul into it.

I never listened to people who said I wasn't going to make it.

I'm going for the big moments - I want the big moments. I just tell myself, 'Remember the work you did, the things you went through. And keep going.'

I'm never going to stop because I had a bad game. I'm never going to stop because somebody thinks that I can't do something. I'm going to always play the way I feel I should play, because I wouldn't have got to here if I felt like I couldn't.

It was never an option to not succeed.

That taught me how to work harder. I learned all about mental toughness on the practice field. If things weren't working out for me in high school, in college, early in my pro career, my solution was always to work harder and internalize. That way, whenever I got an opportunity, I was always prepared. See, there are a lot of guys who are all talk. They say they want to work harder and be the best, but they never pay the price. I love paying the price.

I am where I am because I believed and I never gave up.

I think a mantra I always told myself is, "No matter how many times somebody pitches the ball at you, if you swing every time, eventually one of them is going to connect." Being yourself and persistence are two things that became my daily mantras, I suppose.

Attitude, humor and action (persistence) will whip fears and rejection. Fear of failure doesn't exist, if you believe it doesn't.