Quotes About Struggle

The fighter loses more than his pride in the fight; he loses part of his future. He's a step closer to the slum he came from.

Your biggest opponent isn't the other guy. It's human nature.

Every season has its peaks and valleys. What you have to try to do is eliminate the Grand Canyon.

The drug dealers, they sympathize with me. They see me as some sort of pathetic character.

A ball player has to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer. That's why no boy from a rich family has ever made the big leagues.

Technically, the last number of years, partially from the injury, it's been difficult to push forward but I felt even before the injury that I still could do more and was sort of at a stalemate.

Went to 16 and hit a really bad 3 wood for my second shot and got stuck in the bunker about 70 yards from the pin. Poor execution, chunked it, hit a good chip up to about eight feet, missed it.

I always loved the game, but when my legs weren't hurting it was a lot easier to love.

There's ups and downs with boxing, layoffs are part of the sport and they can either help or hurt a guy.

I quit because I didnt feel like the Detroit Lions had a chance to win. It just killed my enjoyment of the game.

The Internal Revenue Service is the real undefeated heavyweight champion.

Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor.

If you try to fight the course, it will beat you.

If you destroyed the underpinnings of this great American sport, you are a hated, ugly, detestable person.

Man, living, feeling man, is the easy sport of the over-mastering present.

Without losers, where would the winners be?

What really makes baseball so hard is it's retributive capacity for disaster if the smallest thing is done wrong, and the invisible presence of defeat that attends every game.

We have not yet begun to fight.

I've been knocked down more than any heavyweight champion in history.

The Mets have shown me more ways to lose than I even knew existed.

It's a hard life as a professional cricketer. It's not as easy as everyone makes out. To survive you need a tough hide.

The greatest gap in sports is between the winner and the loser of the Super Bowl. The winner has confetti, parades, rings, the whole thing. The loser puts his head down and goes to his house.

Like most ghetto kids I knew it was important to be 'somebody' so I became a good soccer player, because excelling at a sport seemed to make you special.

Boxing has become America's tragic theater.