Quotes About Perseverance

You don't have to be in a boxing ring to be a great fighter. As long as you are true to yourself, you will succeed in your fight for that in which you believe.

Impossible is nothing.

Each time I thought I had achieved my life's purpose, I discovered it was only another step in my journey.

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.

What keeps me going are goals.

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.

When you win so long, so much, you forget, you think your name will win. You forget the sacrifices, the work that goes into winning.

Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them—a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have last-minute stamina, they have to be a little faster, they have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill. Many fighters have lost to less skillful opponents who had the will to win, who were determined to keep going.

Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it - then I can achieve it.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion'.

Don't count the days, make the days count.

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

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.

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

Failure is a word unknown to me.

I do not believe in taking the right decision, I take a decision and make it right.

With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve.