The Great Khali Quotes

My mother had a saying: 'Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you're not the last.'

To get to play a man that has broken walls, that's broken barriers, that's an honor.

I grew up in a rural area called Vega Baja and I'm the first of so many talented people in this area to make it out. I take great pride to represent where I come from and I am able to show my fans, and everyone who listens and watches me, that anything is possible.

I used to say in interviews that I don't necessarily want to be the first black woman or first model to do certain things; I just want to see it done.

I look at someone like Kathryn Bigelow, and I have so much admiration. She's playing in the boy's sandpit, and winning.

Raise your ambition beyond where you're capable of now. There's nothing about my hometown that said I'd be working with Fortune 50 CEO's, Olympians, at the highest level.

No one iced their body in professional wrestling before me. I did it because I was 35, 36, 37. I was already what would have been considered an old timer.

Just to be nominated, and especially as a new artist and a female artist, is a feat. Winning anything is just a bonus.

The act of me just being robust in the world is so radical - it's so radical for a black woman to think she's going to be a star, because it takes so much to get there. It's still a battle every day, but I feel happy because I feel like I cracked the code and figured out how to work through it. Now I want to give the map to other women.

Who can't relate to a story of a dreamer who, against all odds, is going to make something of himself that is completely unexpected?

When I was 15 or 16 and I started climbing up the ladder of success in amateur boxing, a reporter asked me, "What do you want to be?" I think he was expecting me to say, "A champion." I said, "I want to be special." I don't know why I said that, but I didn't just want to be a fighter. I wanted to have an impact with people, particularly kids.

somtimes people say that you can not live your dreams. sometimes people say that you can not sell out madison square garden. well this is what i tell them-NEVER SAY NEVER

I try and tell all the kids that I meet that hope to be amazing one day and be a professional athlete or a doctor or a lawyer or whatever they want to be. I tell them they can do all that because Tourette's won't stop them.

If Bret went in there and stunk the place out, then they probably wouldn't have brought the little brother in. So just by being successful himself, it opened the door for me.

Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.

Growing up I never imagined a little girl from a border town could one day become a governor. But this is America. In America algo es possible.

I am proof that one person can rise above any challenge, and if I can, then so will others if they are given the chance.

In the years to come, I hope there will be Bill Rancic towers right alongside the Trump towers.

I've frowned at the idea of breaking records, the first one to do something, or do it longer, higher, more difficult.

I think sometimes I guess you see records, say you want to get there and use that as motivation. In a way, it's kind of cool if there is a possibility to rewrite history and be up there with the greats of Olympic history.

If you're going to reach for it, reach all the way for it. Albums like 'Purple Rain' and 'Thriller' and those kind of records, you had to reach far above the din of cynicism and modern living to get to that place, against all the odds.

Growing up, I had the weird fantasy list: I wanted to be Alice Cooper, Steven Spielberg, and Stan Lee. You have to have almost psychotic drive, because you're going to have years of failure.

I still feel like I gotta prove something. There are a lot of people hoping I fail. But I like that. I need to be hated.

I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.

I was told I would become nothing. Now I am showing people how big nothing is.