Bobby Lashley Quotes

My father was clearly a mentor. He told me if you work 10 years and you worked 40 hours a week, then you had 10 years experience. But if you worked 10 years and you worked 60 hours a week, then you had 15 years' experience.

If you have real passion for a career in game shows, be willing to serve an apprenticeship; it's the best way to learn.

When I was first starting to achieve success in the WWE, I got to be surrounded by the last class of true greats, and they all had little tips and secrets. You learn a lot from watching somebody work.

I like to speak with more experienced people - with the staff, the manager - and get a lot of advice. But from a young age, I always remember that talent is good, but hard work beats talent.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

I have accomplished a lot, but it didn't happen overnight for me. I was 35 when I got the show, and had been working professionally for 15 years. It would be a lot weirder if I were in my early 20s and stumbled into it.

Well I am grooming him, he has a boxing trainer that knows what he is talking about, and once he has that he is able to put everything together and he listens, and when somebody listens they are able to accomplish anything.

I listened to the veteran wrestlers that had tons of experience, like Leo Burke.

My mother taught me to love my work. I learned everything about business from her.

The way to know about championship quality is to learn from champions, and that I did; studying them with professional purpose during my time in the ring and from habitual interest afterward.

Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

To be a champion, I think you have to see the big picture. It's not about winning and losing; it's about every day hard work and about thriving on a challenge. It's about embracing the pain that you'll experience at the end of a race and not being afraid. I think people think too hard and get afraid of a certain challenge.

I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.

Sometimes when you fail, it allows you the opportunity to grow more motivation and get more intense about your training.

I trained and trained and went up against Kurt, then being a world champion in '94, and after that I did Tommy's tour and then my tour and all this stuff and just trying to deal with it all. And now, I've just kind of backed off a little.

I'm learning a lot how to be good at what I do and also how lucky I am and take it all in and be grateful for all this late in life success I've been having and it's good to have people that have been around and successful for awhile and work with them and see how they behave and it's why they are who they are and why they're still successful.

I let the whole 'Grease' experience be a springboard for me. I wanted to use the exposure I got from that very wisely to continue a successful career. It's taken a lot of work and perseverance.

I may have been lucky with some sort of intuition, but I believe in training a great deal.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'

There are so many examples of people who have flourished by keeping their nose to the grindstone and doing their thing. Be persistent and don't give up.

Almost everything you do fails. To develop a great success we must have thousands of failures along the way

Harry Dean Stanton, Anjelica Huston - a lot of people have studied with me. It's paying my dues.

I didn't just get to 75 years by tiptoeing. I had to work hard sometimes.

If I had coached in high school for 60 years, I would have loved it. Getting to the top was not a goal. I welcomed the opportunities, but I just believed do the best doggone job you can, and good things will happen.

Experience is a really wonderful thing, and in a way we've been fortunate to have had so many ups and downs in our career, and a lot of struggles and a lot of sacrifices. But again, that's just an athlete's story.