Tim Kennedy Quotes

There are schoolteachers around the country that work second jobs after their teaching duties are done: one woman in North Dakota I spoke to was heading off to clean houses after the final bell in order to pay her rent.

In today's world, most people are working side jobs while waiting to do what they really want to do.

At the start, you don't earn a great deal, so you have to work other jobs if you want to play football. When I was at Doncaster, I couldn't solely do football. I had to work; otherwise, I wouldn't have been able to live.

Just getting paid for six months out of the year is unacceptable in any kind of job.

There were times when I was working three jobs at one time, and I was still auditioning just to make ends meet, and I was hoping that something was going to come through. Especially after you have two degrees, standing solid through the process is sometimes the hardest part because there is no guarantee.

In between, I go broke because I seem to do movies where you're not paid a lot as an actor.

I need the money. People don't understand how little money you make in a band.

No one will pay you for planning an expedition at first: you have to work in pubs at weekends so you can pay the gas bills. I joined the Territorial Army, which paid me when I turned up to drill nights, and so did my wife.

I worked for half a cent a word. I'm not a fast writer to begin with, so for the first few years I had do other things.

I know actors who have had to turn down good roles because they just don't pay enough. It's hard.

My son tried to work in films and he ultimately gave it up, he finally couldn't make a living, he couldn't support himself. He worked all the time and he didn't make enough money to have a house, have an apartment.

I remain deeply concerned about falling wages and the lack of good jobs for Americans. Too many of our citizens are either stuck in place or falling behind, and too often their needs are forgotten.

We don't make enough in our job to live the way that we would want to and to have the support that we would need. Most of our income doesn't even come from our salary from our employer and we have to find income from other places.

I make, like, three or four times more when I don't fight than when I do fight. And, I'm one of the higher-paid guys in the UFC, which is remarkably tragic and pathetic.

I made more from sponsorship than I did from fighting. I did that for the longest time.

A lot of people in MMA do part-time jobs.

With the UFC it's like, you make okay money, and only if you're the champion do you make good money. So they're keeping the fighters deliberately poor so they'll keep fighting.

Even when you're on top in the UFC, you only get paid a couple times a year.

The struggle to have a living wage doesn't come easy. You're ready to work, you want it, you seek it... but it's not like it's just given to you.

My father had four jobs every summer. He taught driver's education. He sold World Book Encyclopedias. He sold life insurance. He worked the tobacco market. From the time I was really, really small, I went with him. Obviously, I didn't get paid.

The UFC isn't this whole glamor everybody thinks. They don't pay you right.

Generally, what I try to do is always have a money gig and an art gig.

Hell, if I didn't do stunts, I'd have had to be a bartender, or something else that didn't pay well.

In WCW, your future was determined by the time you signed the contract. I was the lowest-paid guy in the company at $75,000.

Once I started fighting in UFC, things took a big U-turn. After my second fight, I came home and paid my mortgage off.