Quotes About Adversity

I felt like I was cheated out of my career in the UFC. In my mind and in my heart, I never lost to a foe. I never lost to an opponent. I lost to diverticulitis. That was my opponent that beat me. A lot of other people might have other thoughts about that.

Football is beautiful. Football is beautiful because whether you win, draw, or lose, you can go and shake your opponent's hand, whether they're white or black or red or blue.

Suffering makes me hungry. Suffering allows me to put some hurt in my opponent. It's a good thing.

I didn't want my opponent to know there was anything wrong with me.

Practice is tough. We try to purposely make it difficult on our players on whatever it is that we're trying to do during the week to get ready for that opponent so that we see the most difficult looks, so that we make our players aware of the things that could certainly impact the game in a negative fashion.

I've learned from every single fight, every single opponent - some great fighters.

The more dangerous the opponent, the better fight I've fought. It always made me move in ways I'd never moved before.

Any opponent can make life tough for you.

When you're little, you're taught not to look at, like, if your opponent gets angry or anything.

You can have a bad opponent out there and still get the job done. You just have to work around certain things.

It's often my opponent's plan to take me into the later rounds, but the amount of damage that has accumulated on them means they don't hear the final bell.

I have learnt as an entrepreneur that the formidable opponent you can have is someone who has nothing to lose.

In mixed martial arts, if you get kicked in the face, it's your job not to show any expression to your opponent.

We have to keep our strong mentality every time, with a good emotional balance to support everything, whether an opponent provokes you or not, because the opponent is doing his job as well.

I am not the kind of person who always hopes for the easiest opponent.

In football you need to look to make life difficult for the opponent.

Your greatest opponent always brings the best out of you.

Our objective is always to do something that hasn't been done before, but the opponent has a lot of say over how that works out.

You normally can capitalize when your opponent makes mistakes, but at Talladega, you can't.

Sometimes I let my opponent hit me. Not because I like it. To get him tired.

We know from experience that anything can happen in games against strong opponents; nuances can make the difference.

I fought three opponents in one night two or three times, but never five rounds.

Reveling in our opponents' missteps and losses drags us down as a country and diminishes our potential as people.

I've lost to some great opponents, and in some I have been robbed.