Quotes About Strength

Athletics is not so much about the legs. It's about the heart and mind.

It's easy to break things. Much, much easier, it seems, than building them.

Character is much easier kept than recovered.

I'm a big-guy guy. I look at guys like Shaq, Ben Wallace, guys who play inside and play tough. I don't pay much attention to the little guys; I like the big guys who do the dirty work.

I'm a mudboy. I came from the mud, oozed out the concrete. I'm not a rose. I'm a mudboy: I came from nothing.

You have to lift your head up out of the mud and just do it.

I've seen my parents dragged through the mud. But I wouldn't be the person I am today without them.

In memory of Muhammad Ali I will be knocking out David Haye in one round.

Essentially, my hero-role model is Muhammad Ali, because when I watched this one fight of his with my dad when I was a kid, and I watched him not go down... I think him just taking a lot of blows and not going down, it was so moving.

Muhammad Ali was such an original - his antics, his character, his charisma, his strength, his individuality.

Harness mules and oxen, but give a horse a chance to run.

I think that's an important thing, being able to see women as multifaceted beings that have many layers to them.

The strength of the American higher education system is that it is a multifaceted, multi-layered system, and that is what makes us very strong.

Every great team has multiple backs. Very few times do you have just one back.

I have been trolled multiple times, and it doesn't affect me anymore.

My mother had multiple sclerosis.

I always say don't be scared. It's not that bad - there's always something worse - and there is definitely life after multiple sclerosis.

I got really, really sick with a horrible disease called transverse myelitis; I lost my legs. I couldn't play anymore. It was a form of multiple sclerosis, which I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy.

When my dad died, I was eight. Becky was seven. My mum had cancer, the first of two bouts that she's fought and beaten.

My mum brought me up on her own. All we really had was each other.

I feel like a semi-single mum.

My mum Mary was always a bright, confident and fiercely independent lady.

I definitely take after my dad, looks-wise. But my mum is my greatest inspiration. All the women in my family are amazing. They're hilarious. I love funny people.

My mum was one of those people who really wasn't allowed to be an artist, because she worked in a factory and she came from the war and all that stuff. She really has an artist's soul.