Chuck Liddell Quotes

I always hustled to make money and pay for school. I was never afraid of hard work.

I've always been a workhorse, and I've been supporting myself since I was 15.

I did everything I could to stay in college and pay my own way, so I think that if success hadn't come so quickly, I would still be pursuing it.

My parents did not pay a cent for my education; they didn't give me a car or furniture - I did that 100% on my own. I had to pay back a lot.

I grew up working hard to earn everything I had.

I don't want anything handed to me, I want to work for everything I have... that's the way I've done everything in my life.

No one ever taught me how to shave; no one ever sat down to watch a Braves game with me. I paid for Yale myself, I lived by myself, I taught myself how to play the guitar. I did this all on my own.

The big things I've had are things I bought myself.

I wasn't sheltered or spoiled. All the money I made, I made myself.

The Chinese mom is not the helicopter mom. I would never do their homework for them. It's all about: Take responsibility, don't blame others. Be self-reliant. Never blame the teacher.

There wasn't a rich father or rich family that paid for everything that I have right now, so I worked my way.

My dad was pretty old school. I've had a job since I can remember, and it's not like he was like, 'Hey, what kind of car do you want?' My first car was a '91 Ford Crown Victoria that was $1,000. And I had to buy every car after that. I had to do it all.

I always had to have a job in the summer when I was at school. It was about teaching me, and my brother and sisters, a good work ethic and making sure we knew there were no handouts. We had to find our own way in this world.

When the time came for me to go to college, there was only one scholarship that my high school offered at the time and I didn't win that one, but that didn't stop me. I went on to college anyway. I worked my way through it and paid my student loans for 11 years.

My father always told me, 'Before you become a queen, you have to learn how to take care of your own things.' So I knew how to do all of it, but I had never really done it on a daily basis. So I was cleaning houses, and I started working restaurants.

I wouldn't be where I am right now, and have the right work ethic and discipline, if it weren't for all the indie films I did. We weren't pampered and were pretty much on our own.

I've never been spoon-fed for my whole career, I have always done it the hard way as a player and a manager.

I don't believe in handouts, I believe in working hard for what you want.

I have worked for everything. I am self-made and proud of it.

I saw how hard my parents worked, and I didn't want to be a freeloader.

I worked to put myself through college.

I'm constantly working, and I've earned everything that I've been able to achieve on my own, and that's what being the eldest of 14 taught me.

Nobody ever gave me anything. Everything I got I had to work for.

I am a granddaughter of immigrants, put myself through college as a waitress, and I started my career as a computer programmer.

My first vehicle I had to buy it myself and work to get it. My dad was really hard on me.