Yayoi Kusama Quotes

You know those hard days you go home where you've been worked to the bone and you just want to do nothing? In fight prep, every day is that day.

I work my back 'til it's racked with pain, the boss can't even recall my name.

I had sacrificed my entire life to play football.

My buddies are like, 'You live the most amazing life!' Well, I'm working like a dog. I come home most nights and pass out on the couch.

To get GoPro started, I moved back in with my parents and went to work seven days a week, 20 hours a day. I wrote off my personal life to make headway on it.

All the energy, all the pain, sweat and tears that go into it, the amount I had to put in to get me to where I had to play, it was more taxing on me physically and mentally than it was good for me.

There's something so empowering about knowing I can pick up an axe and split a piece of wood.

You can't do everything I did for all those years and not sustain some injuries.

My mother was the one constant in my life. When I think about my mom raising me alone when she was 20, and working and paying the bills, and, you know, trying to pursue your own dreams, I think is a feat that is unmatched.

I honestly wear myself out walking around, fixing this and fixing that. Maybe that's why I like to work so much - so I can just get to that moment where I'm like, "Whoa." I have to be super tired and knocked out to stop!

I've done everything I wanted to do, even if I have had to pay a very high price - which has been the case most of the time.

To be independent for the comforts of life, we must fabricate them ourselves

Filipinos don't realize that victory is the child of struggle, that joy blossoms from suffering, and redemption is a product of sacrifice.

It's sad that in the struggle for my country's freedom, I have lost my personal freedom.

It was a conscious choice, to build my own career, to make a name for myself. Another issue here, of course, is that I used all means to build it and was ready to pay any price for it.

We have a very disabled person in our family who is cared for by someone who lives a life most other people would find impossible, and her faith is making it a joy for her. And you can't argue with that. I mean, you can, but it's fruitless.

My blood pressure was always up from just overworking.

You're constantly working and missing meals. You're away from your family, and you're doing it for, like, eight months.

One thing I've learned from winning an Olympic medal is that it's really exhausting.

Only by the sweat of my own brow. I am a totally working man.

Every night, we put on shows that are deteriorating our bodies' life span... we don't do it for it all to be in vain.

Football helped me with confidence that I needed. It gave me a sense of independence and earning my own money and my own keep. That's what it served. It gave me the strength to be able to deal with rejection, politics, hard work, and being introduced to pain and embracing what's uncomfortable.

You've got to have dedication because there's a lot of sacrifice which goes into it - a lot of your time is minimal with friends and family, especially in the past 10 years.

She was absolutely my hero. She would do without if she could help somebody else. My mom showed the courage of the lion to keep her kids alive, and the sacrifices she made were incredible. I don't know if I would have been man enough to do what she did.

I didn't come in the game tryna be friends with everybody. I do this for my family.