Quotes About Adversity

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.

They can be King Kong, Godzilla, or whatever - I don't care what they have. Once you get a punch in the face or a knee in the head, all of those skills are gone.

I want to punch everything and fight the world.

Scoring two goals to win a game will hurt an opponent more than a punch in the face.

Fighting causes you to face life head on, because you could end up seriously getting hurt, and you could hurt somebody else. It causes both people to face the reality that we are fragile beings, but it doesn't mean we can't enjoy ourselves in the process and punch each other in the face and have a good time.

Everyone's a world class ground fighter until they get a punch to the face.

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.

You can have the perfect plan through the first punch but then you have to take the fight second by second.

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

Anything can happen in the Octagon, so of course, we all want to win, but I know it's a sport, so one punch can make you lose.

When I take a right hand, I roll with it. I don't absorb every single bit of the punch. There's different ways to alleviate some of the force of a punch besides just getting out of the way. When I take it, it's on my gloves.

When I beat GSP it's not like I was getting my butt handed to me and I just closed my eyes and landed a punch.

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

I've had just about everything punched. I've had things grabbed that just shouldn't be grapped.

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.

Johnnie Cochran hasn't spent 20 years serving people in low-income, minority neighborhoods, ridding them of gangs and narcotics. I have. He hasn't been shot at and punched. I have. I've paid my dues to be able to say I'm not a racist.

Life is, and should be, a little hard. Getting punched in the face or getting an occasional concussion will probably happen to us all at some point in our lives. We can handle it.

It's not fun to get punched in the face. It's hard, and there's no glory in it.

I like training hard. I like to punch the face. I like getting punched in the face.

Toughness isn't that you've got to fight with the guy after the play or punch him because he punched you. That's not tough. That's dumb.

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.

During the fight, if you feel something, you know it's pretty bad, because normally you don't feel anything. You get punched and elbowed in the face, you don't feel it until after the fight.