Pitbull Quotes

Everyday above ground is a great day, remember that.

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

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

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

Life is to live it, not to let it live you.

I'm taking all the negatives in my life, and turning them into a positive.

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

Patience, passion and perseverance equals success.

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!

I'm sharp... What the street taught me how to do is how to hustle. How to make something out of nothing.

Just out here workin' hard and doin' what we do best: grind, hustle, and anything possible to create new opportunities.

I always wanna be able to fight, I always wanna be able to go left when they tell me to go right, not because I'm being hard-headed, it's just me taking a creative stance. I have no problem with constructive criticism, but, at the same time, I have a problem with doin' the same thing that everybody's doin'. And that's the way I've found a way to survive in the music game.

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

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

Everything is humble and positive energy.

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.

You cant get much whiter than me.

I was taught in kindergarten: sharing is caring.

Punish the deed, not the breed.

Humor is everything. Everything. Usually the negatives turned out to be the most positive for me. In the music industry, any other artist would have looked at the situation I was in and thought, "Oh man, this is not for me." I looked at it more like Darwin exploring the Galápagos Islands. You know - survival of the fittest.

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

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

I can be a part of everything. Every movement.

Simplicity is the key to success.

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

My motivational music is any music that helps me escape. There are certain records that take you to euphoria, when you're partying and havin' a good time, dancin' with a couple people.

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

I make music with no boundaries.

I won't perform in Cuba until there's no more Castro and there's a free Cuba. To me, Cuba's the biggest prison in the world, and I would be very hypocritical were I to perform there.

One thing that's never gonna go, you know, go sour is good music.

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

I work hard. But I play hard, too.

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

Don't just give me an advance. I want a percentage.

I grew up around salsa, merengue, bachata, bass music, freestyle, hip-hop, techno, house, rave. Miami is special for that. It's a city where you don't know if it's more a part of the US, or of the Caribbean, or of Latin America, or of Europe.

I'm definitely someone who enjoys life and wakes up with a ball of energy.

Pretty soon I think you'll have Republicans, Democrats and Hip Hop as a party.

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.

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.

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'm so passionate about making good music.

You know, Steve Jobs came to the music industry and pitched them the idea and they kept shootin' him down and shootin' him down, and now he makes money off the whole music industry regardless. Which is a minor part of his empire, 'cause obviously it's gadgets that make him all of his money. But regardless, he has basically monopolized the music game.

It's the true meaning of music being a universal language, constantly fighting and going through different boundaries in order for new people to hear the music and be like, "Oh, sh*t! I mess with this Pitbull kid."

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

Every time I reach a new audience, that means I'm doing something right.

I don't wanna make hood music, I don't wanna make street music, I want to make world music, global music, international music.

I'm just here to open up doors for all these other cats out here that are trying to do the same thing really.

I think that the reason my records are able to live forever in the club is because I actually like to be in the club. I don't go to the club to do VIP or get bottles or nothin' - I go to the club, I enjoy the people, I see what the people are vibin' off, and I see what makes me go crazy in the club also, and that has a lot of influence on what I bring to the table when I'm thinking of making a big club record.

My whole thing is just being a part of good music.