Quotes About Adversity

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.

Really, the only people that do want to fight me are the people that haven't been in there with me yet. It's a dangerous game and those punches aren't coming light.

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.

It was a natural process, because when we go to the ring we are human beings, but once you feel the punches and the competition that's when the beast comes out and takes hold of us.

This is no game. You get up in there, and you take some punches. You risk your life, and then let me see you talk then. That's why I don't respect people who criticize fighters.

The punches that don't knock you out are the ones you feel the most.

I'm not afraid to stand toe-to-toe and throw punches.

I know what it's like to take punches.

Every book I write, the media just keeps punching me in the face.

Punching your weight is one of boxing's most sensible rules. It's a handy one to abide by whether your battles lie in or out of a ring.

I'm just a normal fellow who gets punched in the face for a living and gets punched really hard at times as well. But you know what? I'm all right at punching them back.

One thing you understand quickly as a fighter is that you're not punching with eight or 10 oz. Gloves. We've got 4 oz. gloves. It only takes one good shot for a fight to be over.

You have pundits and fans from other teams who will say loads of things and it goes past me. That's life.

Criticism certainly doesn't affect my life, and whatever the pundits have called me, I'm sure they have been called a lot worse in their day.

I don't think you should punish a guy for losing when they were hurt.

Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it.

I'll probably be punished for hard living.

I was bullied a lot... doing anything overly well was punished by the kids.

Sometimes on the outside courts we'd play and guys would get into fights. I never backed down, even if the guy was stronger and I'd get punished.

First of all, you look at Rocky films now, and if that isn't a cartoon series there isn't any cartoon series. I mean there's no way anybody is going to take that amount of punishment in fifteen rounds.

It's a punishment game... only two boxers get in the ring. So when we get in the ring and we're not angry, then you're not a real boxer.

There's not a lot of people that can sit there and take the punishment that I can deliver.

What kind of pupil was I? Well, I was a swot, but I was allowed to be without any ill effects by my contemporaries because I was excused from games due to my asthma. So being a swot was something to compensate for not being to play football.