Nick Diaz Quotes

Early in my career I had to be a goon to survive. I did everything I had to do and probably some things I shouldn't have.

I know exactly what it's like to not have a penny. I know exactly what it's like trying to get a job. I know exactly what it's like having bloody one tin of Ambrosia left in the cupboard. But I know I can survive.

I had to steal to survive.

When I first came out, I was a film student, and my mom sewed clothes. I was already doing a million things then, whatever it took to survive. If I had to braid someone's hair to get one pound for my lunch money, that's what I did.

Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.

Necessity makes an honest man a knave.

I want to do whatever I can to survive.

Everyone does what they believe they need to do in order to survive in this business, 'survive' being the operative word.

For me, basketball was always about survival because I was just trying to get out the hood, right? When I got to Chicago, I'm like, 'I'm just trying to survive, and anybody I got to step on or break, so be it.'

We desert those who desert us; we cannot afford to suffer; we must live how we can.

Desperation will allow you to do incredible things in the name of survival.

I did what sports were supposed to be like, and I was living in my car. So you know what, fine. I'm gonna talk a bunch of sh*t. I'm gonna pose in a couple of pictures. And I'm gonna break a couple of girl's arms, and I'm not gonna feel the least bit sorry about it because you know what? At least I can feed my dog.

Survivors can't always choose their methods.

To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.

You have to wake up and you have to run if you want to survive.

I was a monster. I don't deny it. I wasn't a monster until a few years ago. But you have to be a monster to survive in New York City. New York City doesn't give a damn about violence.

Hunger makes a thief of any man.

We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

But we did the best we could and in the end some of us had to get day jobs and start fresh.

They went into stores to get food to stay alive. Looting isn't the right word. I call it survival.

Hunger is the teacher of many.

There's something quite satisfying, quite reassuring about seeing a man having to survive.

I had my hustle. It was whatever I could do to not end up working in a factory. If I had to shake it like a showgirl, I was going to do it.

If I had been brilliant or a genius, I wouldn't have needed to break the law just to survive.

At a certain point, I think, you harden yourself to the realities of the business.