Quotes About Resilience

It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.

I never thought of losing, but now that it' s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

He who hits and runs away, lives to fight another day.

My toughest fight was with my first wife.

We can't be brave without fear.

All through my life, I have been tested. My will has been tested, my courage has been tested, my strength has been tested. Now my patience and endurance are being tested.

I never thought of losing, but now that it's happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you.

If you even dream of beating me, you'd better wake up and apologize.

No one starts out on top. You have to work your way up. Some mountains are higher than others, some roads steeper than the next. There are hardships and setbacks, but you can't let them stop you. Even on the steepest road, you must not turn back. You must keep going up. In order to reach the top of the mountain, you have to climb every rock.

I've never let anyone talk me into not believing in myself.

The day I met Islam, I found a power within myself that no man could destroy or take away from me.

Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong.

The critics only made me work harder.

I never wanted to lose, never thought I would, but the thing that matters is how you lose. I'm not crying. My friends should not cry.

You don't lose when you get knocked down. You lose when you stay down.

Running is the source of my stamina. Early in my career I learned to run until I'm tired, then run more after that. The running I do before the fatigue and pain is just the introduction. The real conditioning begins when the pain comes in; then it's time to start pushing. And after that I count every mile as extra strength and stamina. The reserve tank. What counts in the ring is what you can do after you're tired.

As for me, I know no fighter can survive if he feels sorry for himself when he's defeated. When I accept a fight, I accept the consequences. I do everything to make the fight come out my way, but if I'm defeated I have to get up and come back again, no matter how humiliating the loss.

I'm a fighter. I believe in the eye-for-an-eye business. I'm no cheek turner. I got no respect for a man who won't hit back. You kill my dog, you better hide your cat.

Often it isn't the mountains ahead that wear you out, it's the little pebble in your shoe.

I've wrestled with alligators, I've tussled with a whale. I done handcuffed lightning And throw thunder in jail. You know I'm bad. just last week, I murdered a rock, Injured a stone, Hospitalized a brick. I'm so mean, I make medicine sick.

Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.

Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong.

If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, then they can sure make something out of you.