Michelle Payne Quotes

If I can inspire people by showing that following a dream by working hard and being determined is possible, it's amazing.

I remember being a kid and saying, 'One day, I'm going to have a ranch. One day, one day, one day.' And now, I'm fighting in the UFC. I'm here making the money, and that one day is here. I can finally go get those things that I want.

Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want. If God gave you the talent, you should go for it. But don't think it's going to be easy. It's hard!

Don't worry. If you really want to, you will Whether you'll like it when you do is another question.

The road to success may be, and generally is, obstructed by many influences which must be removed before the goal can be reached.

Hard work is the main thing-hard work and dedication. And I think a great part of it is goal setting. You set your goals to a point where they're attainable, but far enough away that you have to really go get them. And every year I push my goals a little bit farther away, and every year I work a little bit harder to get them. Every goal that I've set, I've been able to achieve. That's been very fulfilling.

Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.

I never thought I'd get a chance to do what I'm doing. It's such a dream.

When you've got something to prove, there's nothing greater than a challenge.

I'm proud of my triumphs. I've dreamed of being world champion, I've had some difficult times and they've made me value the good times.

The accolades, just like the scrapes and bruises, fade in the end, and all you're left with is your ambition.

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.

It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.

I was only 24 then, but 18 of those 24 years had been dedicated to wanting to get to that moment.

Kids always need a role model. I let them know you can do it, too, if you really want to.

The tenacious character I've possessed since I was a small child propelled me to successfully meet this challenge, and I was able to safely gain acceptance to the university of my choice.

All those days of waiting on tables until I could get a role on Broadway, all that time going to school taking lessons, and all those years of being a nobody following a dream-and now here it is.

I embraced, I think, the process of becoming No. 1 of the world, which was long and difficult, but it's sweeter in the end.

There's clearly something to be said for success and following through on your commitments.

What Fred Lebow went through was an inspiration for me. You have to set goals for yourself.

In my very first interview, at nine years old, I said I wanted to be an Olympic gold medalist. That was the first time I said it out loud in front of somebody other than my parents.

I'm not stopping. My dream has come true, and I'm staying.

At the beginning of my career, it was very hard to go up. Now, it's very hard to stay on top. You have to stay there, and I want to stay there so badly. I'm still standing.

The truth is, the harder you fight, the sweeter are the rewards in the end.

I think if I'd quit years ago, I'd never have known what I was capable of doing.