Kofi Kingston Quotes

There are only so many wrestlers that can actually look and act the part, and do whatever they have to do in WWE, and that's a lesson to be learnt for a lot of wrestlers, you need to look the part. If you don't, there is very little chance of you making it here.

If I aspire to be the king of WWE, one day if I keep working at it, I will be the king of WWE.

My WWE career has been amazing. It took a lot of time for me to get here, and you never stop paying your dues.

Probably better than anybody, I realized that I could have easily been one of those guys who was not seen as being a WWE-type guy.

It took me 11 years to get a shot at the WWE championship; not just to win it, but just to get a shot, but luckily I was able to capitalize on that and become WWE champion, but if I had quit I wouldn't have been in that position.

I have a huge amount of respect for Lesnar. You know, he's done everything since he came into it. He works hard. You don't look like Lesnar without working hard.

All of the Divas are given opportunities. It's kind of the way you go after them and what you do with them. I feel like I was able to seize the opportunity I was given, and now I am Divas champion.

I've won every single event there is to win as a wrestler, and I still continue to come back every single year. The hard part for me is, 'OK, how long can you do this?'

I kept doing tryouts, and finally, after five years I got signed by WWE.

There are two ways to go when you hit that crossroads in your life: There is the bad way, when you sort of give up, and then there is the really hard way, when you fight back. I went the hard way and came out of it okay. Now, I'm sitting here and doing great.

I had five years of failure, really, before I had the first initial sign of success.

I'm kind of a grinder. I'm a Cinderella, an underdog story who fights.

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

I won it, at least five million times. Men who were stronger, bigger and faster than I was could have done it, but they never picked up a pole, and never made the feeble effort to pick their legs off the ground and get over the bar.

I've always found that anything worth achieving will always have obstacles in the way and you've got to have that drive and determination to overcome those obstacles on route to whatever it is that you want to accomplish.

There were times I didn't think we would ever make it, even when we were cranking two out a year.

If you really believe in what you're doing, work hard, take nothing personally and if something blocks one route, find another. Never give up.

People will tell you that you can't do it, no matter what you are trying to do, so you just have to really keep at it.

Everything that I've ever been able to accomplish in skating and in life has come out of adversity and perseverance.

Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.

I learned to focus and work hard and not give up. I learned that every obstacle is really an opportunity.

The man who gives up accomplishes nothing and is only a hindrance. The man who does not give up can move mountains.

I was never specifically associated with a part, I didn't have tons of money, I wasn't conventionally tall or handsome, so you know the things that were available to me were hard work and perseverance.

What makes it difficult for people trying to follow a dream is that the whole time you feel like you're slamming your head against the wall. So it's nice to make a breakthrough and not kind of lying there with your head bleeding.

There's a lot of blood, sweat, and guts between dreams and success.