Quotes About Courage

You can't learn to take a punch. Whether you have a glass chin or you don't, the only way of finding out is having it land.

If anybody doubts my loyalty to my country, I'll punch him in the nose, and I don't care how old he is.

I am not into guys who powder-puff punch and run round the ring for 12 rounds. I'm into guys that want to shock the world with devastating power.

I'm not afraid to take a punch.

I didn't know how to throw a punch - why would I? Who knows how to throw a punch? Now I do it all the time, and it makes me feel strong.

You can sit there and punch me in the head for three minutes straight, but I'm gonna figure it out. I always do. I just know that about myself.

When a bully pulls your hair, you punch him in the face.

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.

Like when I fought Akebono - six foot eight, 490 pounds. Before the fight, everyone's like 'Man, you're crazy. You're out of your mind. How are you going to fight a guy that big, there's no way you can take him down. You cannot punch him out. You're out of your mind.' After the fight, everybody was like 'Oh come on, he's big and fat.' Really?

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

When, no matter what you do, everybody's going to punch holes in it, then you just go and you do what you want. And that's the most freeing place to be.

People say I don't punch hard, but I say, 'Get in the ring with me and see if it hurts.'

I'm not punch drunk.

I can take 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.

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.

I don't want to get punched all my life.

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.

I've been in the boxing ring, taking punches to my face. I've always got back up.

Punches never bothered me that much.

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.

Pulling punches because someone happens to be a woman is disgusting.

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