Ryan Kwanten Quotes

As important as hustle is, grit and resilience are equally as important because there's a lot of rejection in our business.

I still take losing out very seriously. But it inspires me that much more to move on. Quite often in my business, it's not the most talented people that succeed. Because they don't necessarily have the tenacity to deal with rejection.

If I went by all the rejection I've had in my career, I should have given up a long time ago.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

Every time I've failed, people had me out for the count, but I always come back.

I knocked a lot of guys out from the seventh round on - so if I gave up, I would never have achieved what I did. There was no giving up. It's weak to give up. The easiest thing in the world is to quit.

Life is designed to knock you down. It will knock you down time and time again, but it doesn't matter how many times you fall - it matters how many times you get back up.

I envision Hollywood as a race, and some people simply drop off before their turn comes around. It's all about stamina - your ability to get back up and keep going even though everything is pointing at the odds not being in your favor.

It's how many times you get back up that defines you.

I don't care about losing. How many times did Michael Jordan lose before he won his first championship? It wasn't about the number of losses with Sugar Ray Leonard or Tommy Hearns.

Everyone who's great - play any sport, tennis, basketball, football, volleyball, swimming, don't matter, everyone's failed. Everyone's gonna fail. It's how you bounce back.

At various points, in big ways and small, we get knocked down. If we stay down, grit loses. If we get up, grit prevails.

That's one thing you learn in sports. You don't give up; you fight to the finish.

If you look around at the people in show business today they are basically the people who didn't give up.

Tough times don't last, tough people do, remember?

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Where I come from, being a hard man is being able to take a good beating and then get back up again and carry on fighting.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.

The young must be prepared to experience innumerable disappointments and yet not fail.

It takes a lot of energy and creativity to make such screwed up lives carry on. And the kind of will people have to survive, year after year, dealing with that stuff, is weirdly impressive.

Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.

Pitchers did me a favor when they knocked me down. It made me more determined. I wouldn't let that pitcher get me out. They say you can't hit if you're on your back, but I didn't hit on my back. I got up.

Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.