Urijah Faber Quotes

I like to go full bore into something. If you have a backup plan, then you've already admitted defeat.

Take the leap. If you love theater more than anything, take the leap. It's so rich if you give over fully to it; there are no halfers or returnsies in this business - if you don't... There's no way to go other than full tilt with your life and job.

If I'm going to play, it's going to be 100-percent commitment.

You've got to be all-in on this sport; you can't be one foot out the door.

If you're going to go for a thing, there's no point unless you're going all the way.

I've always felt I should do things 100 percent or not do them. It's all or nothing. That's what makes me a good athlete - doing things with all the 'ganas' I can.

Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

When the big games come, I show up.

To win a championship, you need to win on the road.

You've got to go out there and play your best. It's about what you do on the football field.

I live every training session to the fullest as if it were a final.

You have to be ready for all the games and be at 100 per cent if you want to win in this League.

When you're an athlete, you've got the horse blinders on pretty thick. Your exploration of other things in life tends to be limited because you have to have such a focus on what you're doing. I wasn't a good enough player to stray from that focus and still keep my ability.

I think to give everything I have on court is the best thing to do to win tournaments.

Duffy is go hard or go home. It's just a concept that I wanted to have when we're doing different things. When me and my dancers go in, we usually go hard or we go home. We're not here to play. We go duffy.

Practice don't win games.

If you are a team that wants to win something, you have to play for 90 minutes with concentration and focus.

If you're looking to be a professional athlete on the top tier of any sport, my best advice is to put everything you have into it. If you're not, somebody else is. It's got to be all or nothing.

I don't like doing things by halves, and I realised you can't do stand-up comedy part-time.

I let my racket do the talking. That's what I am all about, really. I just go out and win tennis matches.

Once you commit to something, you've got to commit the whole way. Try and make the best of it.

I'm too old to do things by half.

Trust me, my runners aren't going to run one event while looking past it to the second event. When they get on the line for the 10K, that's a do-or-die situation for them.

Because you can't do anything halfway, you've got to go all the way in anything you do.

You'd like more people to recognise what you do is special. But I take the attitude that the best thing I can do for my sport is to be the best at it. The best way people will come to recognise that track and field is a great sport is to see athletes excelling at it.