Pitbull Quotes

I've always had goals, always had visions, always had a plan, always been very strategic.

Music to me is something I did as a hobby.

Don't be afraid to lose. Listen. And always invest in yourself.

I already had three strikes against me. One, I have light skin. Two, I'm from Miami, which wasn't getting looked at at the time. Three, I'm Cuban. But now, I've made everything that stacked against me into a virtue.

Everyday above ground is a great day, remember that.

I like to keep my money at the end of the day.

It's all about music, because music is basically what's ... been my avenue out of maybe being involved in things I shouldn't be.

If you continue to work hard, let that be the fuel to your fire.

I started doing shows in places that I couldn't pronounce, didn't know existed, and I've seen people that didn't speak English or Spanish rapping to every lyric and singing to every hook. I said, "This is the type of music that I want to do."

I'm here to entertain.

In any country when you throw something in somebody's face, it's disrespectful.

Punish the deed, not the breed.

There's no success without failure and no winning without losing.

You can't get much whiter than me.

I make music with no boundaries.

The people in Cuba, they know what I stand for, and there's a lot of people in Cuba that stand for the same. But they can't say it.

This is the truth: I'm into sales. I love deals. I'm definitely a sucker for steals.

Now look at the crowd. We've got everybody here tonight: Black, white, Asian, Latinos - and guess what? President Obama says we can all stay! God Bless America!

Show the World where you're from, show the World we are one ...

My kids can't eat awards.

I'm no longer an artist, I'm a business partner.

I'm taking a lot of freestyle music and flipping it.

As Americans, which I suffer from myself, we have ADD.

When I get in the studio the idea is just to work and bang out as many as I can.

I don't understand the word 'lose', I only understand the word 'learn'

Any time I see anything moving onstage, I'm cautious about it.

My owner is life and that's what I fight for.

I feel like I've been fighting in music and creating new ways and new opportunities to make things work even when people thought it wouldn't.

Music is my hustle.

Patience, passion and perseverance equals success.

I think of fans like a barbershop. I want that debate.

I look at this game from a different perspective.

With all the negativity going on in the world right now, people need an escape. When you give them a hit record or a great record, it allows them to escape for at least three to four minutes. They're not thinking bills or economy or immigration or war when you create that kind of ambiance.

I don't agree when the USA, that lives by a constitution, says, OK, just because you look this way, we're going to ask you for your documentation, or you gotta go back to your country.

There's always something going on, and people need that 45-minute-to-an-hour-and-15-minute break, where they just escape and not worry about bills, health care and God knows what. That, to me, is when you're making great music: when people can just forget about what's going on.

I work hard. But I play hard, too.