Mel Rodriguez Quotes

It just proves that I've been here for a long time and, I guess, have done the right things over the years.

When you work really hard for something for a long time it's almost impossible to believe that it's coming true.

I've never stopped working, and I still have 'pinch me' moments all the time.

I see it like, I've been working really hard for a long time, and I've accomplished a lot of what I've wanted to professionally. I've been really blessed, and that's all I look at.

If you look at my career, it's been nothing but consistency.

Some say I'm an overnight success. Well, that was a very long night that lasted about 10 years.

I have played for 15 years and it has been a dream.

My dad told me, 'It takes fifteen years to be an overnight success', and it took me seventeen and a half years.

Actually, I'm an overnight success, but it took twenty years.

I want to work for a long, long time and keep growing in my work, and if I am very lucky and very blessed, maybe somewhere along the line there will be one movie in there that becomes a classic.

I'm definitely happy with the progression of my career. I'm glad I didn't jump to stardom immediately, because I get to enjoy the ride and the chase. Because nothing came easy, I really appreciate it when I book roles.

If I pass away one day, I am happy because I tried to do my best. My sport allowed me to do so much because it's the biggest sport in the world.

Well, I realized finally that all of the hard work paid off.

When you spend seven years of your life working on something that you're really passionate about, and other people end up loving it, too, that just makes all of the work worthwhile.

I literally worked from the bottom up to where I am now.

It is now, after doing TV shows and so much work, that people have accepted me as a great choreographer. So I had to struggle too much, and I am happy with my journey today, though there is a lot more left now.

I'll have time to mature and develop, and one day, hopefully, I can bring a ring to wherever I am. LeBron did it.

It's an honor, when you've been hustling in the business for years, years and years, it doesn't matter when it comes - you're just glad it came.

When I look back on my career, from the hard work I put in, I got everything I deserved.

The IWGP title makes me a legend. I've committed half my life to this, and it's worth all the sacrifice. Not only was it worth it, but it was worth it and then some.

I like hard work. I like putting the effort towards it and then being able to look at it and go, "All right, I did that."

He made me realize that hard work--that the act of finishing, of completing, of accomplishing a task--is joyous

It's not an overnight thing. I can legitimately say I've been working my ass off for a long time and the fact that I'm getting this concert movie is perfect because it's coming at just the right time in my life.

People who accomplish big things did small things well.

I got the three things I wanted. I did my job, I worked hard in the process, and I cherish the memories, and they're mine.