Stipe Miocic Quotes

There's a big difference between where I came from and the NFL. Things like this don't happen to people from there often. It just took a lot of hard work and dedication, staying on the right path, believing in myself, and having an inner drive.

I been through some things but I worked hard to get to where I'm at.

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

I look at my jersey and see the NBA logo, I'm like, 'I didn't think I'd be here.'

I take my hat off to my friend, Mark Wahlberg, because I know that it took him a long time to make 'The Fighter', and he overcame a lot of obstacles to do it, and now the film is an unqualified success.

I've struggled a lot for what I have today.

I feel like, in some level, in our biggest moments of success we were always the underdog.

I strongly believe that through dedication and perseverance, one can overcome adversity to achieve success. It is a privilege to accept membership in the Horatio Alger Association, an organization which promotes this principle.

It was tough to fail year after year. I never even got to the final stage until I got my card on the Web.com Tour. But I always believed that I could be something special. I just had to prove it to myself.

I made my dream come true despite all the obstacles - no money, no training, no skis, no snow.

I want a kid to look at me and say, 'You know what, this man had no chance in life, but he stayed in there, and he worked hard. He dedicated himself, and he did it'.

Growing up, people will tell you that you have a better chance to become an astronaut than becoming an NBA player. So when you finally get to the NBA, you've beat the odds. So when you put on that jersey, everything else is downhill.

I believe in hard work, but I believe in vindication as well. You have a few nightmares, I imagine, before you reach your dream.

I love people who succeed in life overcoming various odds.

When you have come from the bottom and worked your way to the top, you are more grateful.

I learned about this talent show on TV that was basically the Estonian version of 'American Idol.' So I lied about my age, went on the show, and won. I think my story is about working really hard and dreaming really big.

I wasn't a rebel. It kind of clicked in my head, like, if I want to do this, I can go out and do it. Some kids, it clicks for them, and it doesn't work out. But thank God for me it did work out. I put in all those hard hours of work, and it has gotten me to where I am.

Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

As I was growing up, I did a lot of talent shows. I won fifteen Sunday nights straight in a series of talent shows in Macon. I showed up the sixteenth night, and they wouldn't let me go on any more. Whatever success I had was through the help of the good Lord.

I am living proof that the American dream still exists. It is still alive and well. There is only one trick, you have to be willing to roll up your sleeves and work very, very hard.

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

The triumph can't be had without the struggle.

It always seems impossible until its done.

Nothing has been easy for me... I've always had to work for everything I've gotten and everything I've accomplished.