Perseverance Quotes

"I know no fighter can survive the loss if he feels sorry for himself when he’s defeated." "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." "No one starts out on top. You have to work your way up." "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." "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." "I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest." "My mother never gave up on me. I messed up in school so much they were sending me home, but my mother sent me right back." "The wall! Your success is on the other side. Can’t jump over it or go around it. You know what to do." "My work, my goal, my life, it’s like a treadmill. And there’s no stop-button on my treadmill. Once I get on, I just keep going." "I grew up where, when a door closed, a window didn’t open. The only thing I had was cracks. I’d do everything to get through those cracks – scratch, claw, bite, push, bleed. Now the opportunity is here. The door is wide open, and it’s as big as a garage." "It ain’t the 99% who’s not putting in the relentless hard work that I care about. It’s the 1% who is." "By 24yrs old, I failed at achieving the biggest dream of my life. My ass was kicked and I was down but not out. I refused to give up, got back up and pushed on." "Two hand philosophy. If I can’t earn it, then I don’t want it. My hands might be calloused up and scarred up with a knuckle or two missing (poor punching form;) but they’re mine and serve as my daily anchors for puttin’ in the work." "Sometimes you find success and sometimes you don’t, but my satisfaction is knowing I’ll always control my effort with my own two hands." "Great results can be achieved with small forces."