David Haye Quotes

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

I got knocked down, I don't know how many years ago and I haven't been off my feet since, and I responded again against the best in division without the respect of having the chin I'm supposed to have.

My first goal was to become world champion and I did that against Ricky Burns at 135. Once I conquered that, I set myself another goal and another goal.

I lost my first professional fight, but came back and won fights until I fought for the world title.

My goal is to become the first Mexican heavyweight champion of the world.

At 19, I was European champion, and at 21, I was world champion. Let's just hope Amir Khan can follow in the same footsteps. I believe he can do it 100%; he's a fantastic talent.

That's what makes a fighter. I got dropped and I got back up, and I found a way to get the win.

The one-time cotton picker was now the heavyweight champion of the world.

He's got one of the best chins I've ever hit in my life. I was catching him and he was smiling at me, he was eating them. He's a great fighter, he'll be champion one day.

I'm one of the most optimistic persons in the world. I always believed that - there's another shot, another chance. In boxing, I never gave up. I kept trying, kept trying. Even when things seemed so dim, I continued to push forward to make something happen in my favor.

A fighter can always recover, and you never know what they're going to come back with.

You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.

No one wants to quit when he's losing and no one wants to quit when he's winning.

If you begin feeling beaten, you will achieve nothing. If you fight, you will perhaps have a chance of achieving something.

To win you've got to stay in the game.

If I go racing tomorrow and I have five rides that all get beaten, all I want to do is get out there the next day and put it right. I hate having Sundays off; I hate having any day off.

We're not done. We're just going to continue playing and hoping to put some wins together again.

I really feel that if it wasn't for the accident, I'd still be fighting. I would have handled some of these fighters. I would have made sure that the doctors would have declared me physically sound; and after that, I would have trained.

You can't give up in any game, even if you are losing.

Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning.

I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

Every fighter has one fight that makes or breaks him.

Don't give up at half time. Concentrate on winning the second half.

For me it was just important to play my game and believe until the end. Even now, Venus is not in the top 10, but you can still feel she can be back again.

It's always tough when you lose - you've worked so hard for that moment and it hasn't gone the way you wanted. But you have to realise there's always a bright side, you have to pick yourself up and get ready for the next game.