Kevin Jorgeson Quotes

One thing about championship teams is that they're resilient. No matter what is thrown at them, no matter how deep the hole, they find a way to bounce back and overcome adversity.

Never die easy. Why run out of bounds and die easy? Make that linebacker pay. It carries into all facets of your life. It's okay to lose, to die, but don't die without trying, without giving it your best.

If you can accept losing, you can't win.

My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories.

I'm a sports junkie, and I am interested in athletic will - how you exceed the expectations of your own performance when it counts to deliver something beyond yourself so that you can win.

I said in my mind, 'keep fighting.'

If I'm not Top 10 or seeded every tournament, it really doesn't matter. I can beat anyone on a good day.

You might win some, you might lose some. But you go in, you challenge yourself, you become a better man, a better individual, a better fighter.

Playing a best of five-set match, you can always bounce back, even if you lose the first set.

You can't let injuries dictate the outcome of a football game. You have to persevere and keep fighting. That is how we are. If there is a blade of grass to defend or take, we do it.

I gotta be able to beat good guys at any moment. I think that's what I'm taking.

It is important to start winning international tournaments early and get that mentality into you. Then, hopefully, you can take it on to the world stage.

I never think of who's in the competition. I never let myself get in that frame of mind, worrying about who I'm against.

Once you have come-from-behind wins, you have confidence as a team that you're going to do it.

When you're on the pitch, you should never give up and concede easy goals.

I think something that has separated me from the rest of the competition - maybe it's just my way of thinking - I don't necessarily go into fights just wanting to win but to actually dominate. So when I don't feel like I dominate, sometimes I feel like a loser, I guess, you know, maybe in that perspective.

The goalkeeper always starts again at nil, even when you're 2-0 down. It always starts again at scratch. It's a completely mental thing, and I keep reminding myself of it during matches.

Tough teams win when the shots are not going.

I always go into every fight trying to forget about what happened in the past, whether I won or lost.

As for myself, in sport you have to question yourself every week and be ready in your head, and you have to be at 100% of determination if you want to keep going and win games; you cannot afford to be at 80% or 90%.

I learned how much determination I have and that no matter what the score is, anyone can come back.

From the very beginning, every time I trained for a fight, I didn't train to beat the guy I was fighting. I trained to beat Anderson Silva.

I have no doubt in my abilities that I can beat any of the top ten guys. Once I'm focused I know I can beat them.

Just knowing you can get into a cage and do that is part of how the mindset of a fighter can be applied to pretty much any situation really.

I'm always going to feel like the underdog. I feel like that's the kind of mind-set I want to have and if I do lose that mind-set, I want somebody to slap me in the face and say, 'Hey, pick it up and get back to the roots.'