60 Pitbull Quotes On Being Your Best You

Feel like getting hyped? These quotes by the world-famous rapper Pitbull will have you taking steps towards your goal in no time.

Most rappers can be grouped or associated with a certain style or genre while other hip hop artists are defined by their content.

If you look at Pitbull’s catalog, you will see a rapper who can easily turn a party up, but also an artist whose content is full of motivational messages.

Pitbull is a half-glass full kind of guy, and his music reflects this.

In interviews, he often shares how he does not look at challenges, shortcomings, or roadblocks as failures, but rather he sees them all as opportunities for growth and learning.

In his music, he often rhymes about following your motivation to your fullest potential.

Check out these Pitbull quotes and you will be taking steps toward your goal in no time!

Don’t forget to also check out these rap quotes about life, love and success.

Our inspirational quotes category page has all of our motivational quotes for all the different areas of life.

Pitbull Quotes on Motivation

1. “Everything is humble and positive energy.” – Pitbull

2. “I don’t understand the word ‘lose’, I only understand the word ‘learn’”- Pitbull

3. “Patience, passion and perseverance equals success.” – Pitbull

4. “I’ve always had goals, always had visions, always had a plan, always been very strategic” – Pitbull

5..“I work hard. But I play hard, too.” -Pitbull

6. “If you continue to work hard, let that be the fuel to your fire.” – Pitbull

7. “Show the World where you’re from, show the World we are one.” – Pitbull

8. “I’m just here to open up doors for all these other cats out here that are trying to do the same thing really.”- Pitbull

9. “Every time I reach a new audience, that means I’m doing something right.” – Pitbull

10. “M.I.A.M.I means ‘money is a motivation.’”- Pitbull

11.“I’m definitely someone who enjoys life and wakes up with a ball of energy.”- Pitbull

Pitbull Quotes on Challenges

12. “I’m taking all the negatives in my life, and turning them into a positive.” – Pitbull

13. “Humor is everything. Everything. Usually the negatives turned out to be the most positive for me.”- Pitbull

14. “As Americans, which I suffer from myself, we have ADD.”- Pitbull

15. “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.” – Pitbull

Pitbull Quotes on Music

16. “I’m here to entertain.”- Pitbull

17. “I’m so passionate about making good music.” – Pitbull

18. “I’m in the major league now.” – Pitbull

19. “My whole thing is just being a part of good music.”- Pitbull

20. “I make music with no boundaries.”- Pitbull

21. “This industry is 90 percent business, 10 percent talent.”- Pitbull

22. “I’m no longer an artist, I’m a business partner.” – Pitbull

23. “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.” – Pitbull

24. “I grew up around salsa, merengue, bachata, bass music, freestyle, hip-hop, techno, house, rave.” – Pitbull

25. “I’m not a Reggaeton artist and I’m not a Crunk artist either.” – Pitbull

26. “I think of fans like a barbershop. I want that debate.”- Pitbull

27. “Don’t just give me an advance. I want a percentage.”- Pitbull

28. “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.”- Pitbull

29. “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.” – Pitbull

30. “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.””-Pitbull

31. “As far as the fans, I always say it because it’s the truth: without them I’m absolutely nothing.”- Pitbull

Pitbull Quotes on Cuba

32. “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.” – Pitbull

33. “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.” – Pitbull

Pitbull Quotes on Life

34. “I was taught in kindergarten: sharing is caring.” – Pitbull

35. “I look at this game from a different perspective.”- Pitbull

36. “Life is to live it, not to let it live you.” – Pitbull

37. “Simplicity is the key to success.” – Pitbull

38. “Punish the deed, not the breed.” – Pitbull

39. “Everyday above ground is a great day, remember that.” – Pitbull

40. “I’m definitely someone who enjoys life and wakes up with a ball of energy.” – Pitbull

41. “There’s no success without failure and no winning without losing.” – Pitbull

42. “I can be a part of everything. Every movement.” – Pitbull

43. “I like to keep my money at the end of the day.” – Pitbull

44. “My owner is life and that’s what I fight for.”- Pitbull

Pitbull Quotes on Hard Work

45. “I’m sharp. What the street taught me how to do is how to hustle. How to make something out of nothing.” – Pitbull

46. “This is the truth: I’m into sales. I love deals. I’m definitely a sucker for steals.” – Pitbull

Pitbull Quotes on Politics

47. “In any country when you throw something in somebody’s face, it’s disrespectful.” – Pitbull

48. “President Obama says we can all stay! God Bless America!” – Pitbull

49. “Pretty soon I think you’ll have Republicans, Democrats and Hip Hop as a party.” – Pitbull

50. “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.”- Pitbull

Short Pitbull Quotes About Music

51. “If you look at any movement Hip Hop would be the most influential in the last maybe 15, 20 years.” — Pitbull

52. “Now, with the Internet, you’re either five years ahead or you’re five years behind, and the music game is catchin’ up right now.” — Pitbull

53. “I don’t wanna make hood music, I don’t wanna make street music, I want to make world music, global music, international music.” — Pitbull

54. “Any time I see anything moving onstage, I’m cautious about it.” — Pitbull

55. “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.” — Pitbull

56. “Music to me is something I did as a hobby.” — Pitbull

57. “One thing that’s never gonna go, you know, go sour is good music.” — Pitbull

58. “Sometimes I feel like I’m losing it. My life is upside down.” — Pitbull

59. “Blood is thicker than water. At least they say it is.” — Pitbull

60. “I’m taking a lot of freestyle music and flipping it.” — Pitbull

What did you learn from these Pitbull quotes?

Last year I saw kids with bald caps, sunglasses and flashy outfits dressed up as Pitbull for Halloween.

This is a true sign of his influence on popular culture.

Much of mainstream hip hop is full of messages that are not always empowering to the audience.

Pitbull does not fit into any one box as an artist.

Something cool about him is that he does not mind being positive and sharing that positivity with others.

A lot of his quotes and material encourage us to look at our own mindset and consider the energy we are putting out.

More than conventional wisdom, the rapper has some constructive advice for his listeners and fans.

He reminds us of the importance of living now in the present, noting that “Life is to live it, not to let it live you.”

Pitbull would be the first one to remind you of the important virtues in life, “Patience, passion and perseverance equal success.”

What’s your biggest takeaway from these Pitbull quotes and sayings?

Do you have any other favorite quotes to add?

Let us know in the comment section below.