I’m going to take it step by step to get my belt.
I can definitely get the belt. It’s something I always wake up believing every time I train.
I had heard a live show, where my voice didn’t sound the way I wanted to hear it and I got paranoid. I’m not an amazing singer, I just belt it out in this crappy old way, but for a while I had it in my head that I couldn’t sing.
Interim belt is made for media and fans, not for me.
I don’t need to chase titles because I’ve fought in so many title fights and so many title fight-level matches that if somebody thinks I need to give them a reason to give me a shot at any belt in the world, then clearly they don’t know what they’re about as far as MMA.
I think it’s one of the more underrated careers out there. A lot of times it wasn’t the flashiest stuff, but I’ve gone out there, I’ve had great streaks, I won the light heavyweight belt.
When you want the belt, you have to work for it.
I do think I retired too soon. I just felt at that particular time in 2002, after winning a fifth world title belt, why not be one of the smart ones in boxing and get out.
Back before the Kuiper Belt was discovered, Pluto did look like a misfit that didn’t belong with either the terrestrials or the giant planets.
A black belt is what you prove to be, but also what it means in your heart.
I’m an extra dark black belt in ping pong.
I think that people in the Bible Belt are far less monolithically religious than many people imagine. There are lots and lots of people who are free-thinking, secularists, or atheists in the so-called Bible Belt.
Some good fighters, they never won the belt, so it doesn’t always show the whole picture. But it’s an accomplishment.
Now that I’ve achieved my goal to win the belt, I want to be the best of all times. I want to be remembered as the lightweight with most title defenses.
I have a black belt and used to compete when I was a kid! I did the Junior Olympics.
To have six years of professional football under my belt already is really something.
I started doing martial arts when I was about 7, and I got my second degree black belt when I was 19. So I have my second degree black belt, but I’ve never used it, and I had to stop when I got ‘Instant Star’ because I couldn’t train.
Who doesn’t wanna be called champion and hang that belt on the wall, right?
I’ve matured as a writer and human being. I’ve got some wisdom under my belt.
If I were to be a role model, it would just come out of going the college route, getting training, and trusting that’s the most secure path you can take – a path where a degree is involved. You know you went to college, and you have that under your belt.
The punk rockers said, ‘Learn three chords and form a band.’ And we thought, ‘Why learn any chords?’ We wanted to make music like Ford made cars on the industrial belt. Industrial music for industrial people.
I keep mementos from everything I’ve done. I’ve got my cab driver’s license from ‘Happiness.’ I’ve got a pair of glasses and a belt buckle from playing John Lennon. I’ve got a pair of sunglasses from playing Andy Warhol… It’s all in a box in the garage.
I want to fight Bisping, whether it’s for a belt or no belt, because he doesn’t respect my country, my flag.
My second novel began after my family moved from New York City to North Carolina, and I watched my son walk into kindergarten at a school in which he was the only Jewish child out of 600 students – and this in the middle of the Bible Belt.
Whatever steps in the cage against me, I will fight, because I have the belt, I’m No. 1 on the planet, and I want to keep staying here.
I feel sorry for kids these days. They get so much homework. Remember the days when we put a belt around our two books and carried them home? Now they’re dragging a suitcase. They have school all day, then homework from six until eleven. There’s no time left to be creative.
It’s always been a goal of mine to get the belt in different weight classes.
I don’t necessarily know about the rankings. I always like to look at it as, it’s the person with the belt, and it’s everybody else.
My wife and kids mean more than the belt or UFC or anything else to me.
There’s a happy medium to everything, even with powerhouse singers. You don’t have to belt it out all the time. You don’t have to overuse something.
I just have to do what I have to do. I have to defend my belt.
I’m going to win the belt at middleweight and I’m going to go up to 205 and win the belt there after I dominate the middleweight division for a little bit – that will happen.
Regret is pointless. I never do anything without first deciding to do it based on facts and feelings, and if it doesn’t work out how I hoped, oh well – there’s another notch on my experience belt.
I’m proud of my Italian roots, and I’ve always believed that I would get the chance to fight for the belt.
I believe I get the belt then I’ll get the money. I’m not trying to be the best fighter in the world. It’s all about the cheddar.
I want to defend my belt against all the middleweights that are the biggest threats supposedly before I jump up in weight.
My father was so very afraid. I felt it in the sting of his black leather belt, which he applied with more anxiety than anger, my father who beat me as if someone might steal me away, because that was exactly what was happening all around us.
When I was young, I used to dream about seeing myself with the world title, with the WBC belt.
I dream of getting to the belt. I know I’m gonna get there. I’m gonna be the champion.
In my whole career, I’ve never fought for a belt, so that’s something that I would like to do, or at least have the opportunity to do.
Having a belt is cool, but I’m trying to do more in the sport.
At the end of all this, Russia held in her hands a vast belt of land running from the Baltic sea in the north to the Black Sea in the south, comprising eleven nations with a population of 100 million people.
When you’re my age and you see a story, you better go for it pretty quickly. I’d just like to get a few more novels under my belt.
Alabama’s Black Belt region played a central role in both the history of our great state and our country. We cannot lose sight of the Black Belt’s significant impact in the civil rights movement and the fact that this area is home to some of our state’s most celebrated cultural figures.
To win the belt from Bisping, the hardest problem for me would be to train hard for him because he stinks. I’m just kidding, he’s really good… No, I’m lying.
There’s plenty of people who’ve never gotten the opportunity to wrestle at WrestleMania. To perform there and do that, I never thought it would ever happen. I had learned to live with it. So to say I did, that is a big notch in my belt.
The belt doesn’t represent me; it’s how you deal with people, how you represent yourself as a champion. The belt is a sign of a champion, but what makes a champion is the things I have just said.
I’m always thinking to myself about getting the belt back.
What I want is the belt. It doesn’t matter who has it.
Life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to unfasten your belt and look for a fight.
As a bowler it’s a strange feeling when you start running through a team. You get that one wicket under your belt and suddenly you start running in feeling loose, feeling relaxed and thinking about what you want to bowl rather than focusing on trying to force that wicket.
I feel like I can go all the way for the belt and hold it awhile.
I want the belt. I’m focused on the belt, I’m focused on the world championship belt.
I’d always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go. You had three days of vocal training and performed your song at the end. I sang ‘I Say a Little Prayer.’ It’s a tough song to sing but they gave me the confidence to go for it and belt it out.
I’ve got a lot of experience under my belt, but I still have a very naive and idealistic outlook on life.
Wear a belt! It’s an easy way to pull together your outfit. Just be sure to match it to your shoes.
I think it helps me. You know, I’ve got two more meets under my belt, and that’s always a good thing.
I’m quite strong for a girl. I studied karate growing up – I’m a brown belt – and me and my sister used to beat the crap out of each other.
Needless to say, I would have loved to have been a black belt instead of actually just wearing one to hold up my pants!
After I’d gotten a year under my belt in college, I thought I’d outgrown my home.
The greatest threat to our freedom and prosperity is not al-Qaida, the Taliban, Iran or even China. It’s an idea, the idea that we can spend our way out of our problems without tightening our belt and paring down the very bloated government.
It would be silly for me to work almost two and a half years chomping out whoever they put in front of me and for me to not capture that belt.
I’ve had the interim belt before and that little interim specification bothers me.
Over everything, over friendships or anything, is my kids – and obviously fighting for that belt is my kids’ future. It doesn’t sound too nice, but if my mom had the belt, she better give it up because my kids gotta eat. If I’m willing to fight my mom, imagine a good friend.
