Quotes About Determination

I didn't know how to throw a punch - why would I? Who knows how to throw a punch? Now I do it all the time, and it makes me feel strong.

You can sit there and punch me in the head for three minutes straight, but I'm gonna figure it out. I always do. I just know that about myself.

Seriously, I faced a lot of anti-Semitism playing hockey as a kid. It motivated me to play well and to punch everyone who was anti-Semitic. I was taunted and called names. I'd either beat them with a goal or with my fists.

I don't ever want to be a punch drunk.

Punch me in the face, I'll punch you twice as hard.

You win some, you lose some. You get hit you don't get hit, but it's not about how hard you get hit. I think it's about how hard you get hit, then still get up and deliver an even harder punch. I think that's what it is all about.

Like when I fought Akebono - six foot eight, 490 pounds. Before the fight, everyone's like 'Man, you're crazy. You're out of your mind. How are you going to fight a guy that big, there's no way you can take him down. You cannot punch him out. You're out of your mind.' After the fight, everybody was like 'Oh come on, he's big and fat.' Really?

I showed that I can fight without boxing, that I can take a punch.

I'm not stupid. After you just punch me, I'm not gonna be like, 'Alright, let me do that again.'

I can punch, I'm heavy-handed, and I can box.

People say I don't punch hard, but I say, 'Get in the ring with me and see if it hurts.'

I'm not punch drunk.

I can take a punch.

When someone is punched in the face, you find out what they are made of.

When you get punched, you have to get up. You have no other choice. If you don't, you're not going to grow, you're not going to get better as a player.

I don't want to get punched all my life.

Sometimes in this game, you get punched in the face. And you've got to be able to take it and learn from it.

I can still take the hits; it's not a problem for me. I accept the blows. I can take the punches like a boxer.

I've been in the boxing ring, taking punches to my face. I've always got back up.

I'm learning along the way, and there's going to be some little bumps and bruises, but as long as I keep rolling with the punches, I will keep moving up.

The guys today are just too strong and back then they would take many hard punches to land one.

Punches never bothered me that much.

I put a lot of fire in my punches.

As an amateur, there are three rounds, and you have to give it all you have, throw as many punches as you can.