K. L. Rahul Quotes

Everybody has to deal with tough times. A gold medal doesn't make you immune to that. A skater is used to falling down and getting up again.

I think there are lot more lows in an athletes career than the highs, but you've got to be bale to take them on the chin.

Sometimes players can have some ups-and-downs after they have done well and then lose a few matches in a row.

Great fighters get beat, and great fighters come back.

No one gets beat by 61 and then come out and plays flat the next game.

I went from being one of the best players, batting .550, to not being able to do it mentally, hitting .200. I thought I was mentally tough. But I couldn't hit the ball.

When things are tough, French athletes tend to pull out great performances.

The most difficult thing with a new shot is if you go two or three games without making it, or you struggle, and people start saying, 'You can't shoot 3s,' or, 'Why do you shoot 3s?'

I believe that some athletes have fear, but you have to work on that. Athletes can't have fear. Fear of what? Fear of losing? Everybody loses one day.

Every time I get an injury or suffer from a personal setback, that's exactly what I do: I persevere.

You've got to deal with adversity throughout the season, whether it's injuries, losing a game where you don't play well.

I've been in situations in my career where I've had slumps and struggles. I always stick with it and just keep working.

I always loved skating but you can get hardened by it and it's discouraging and disheartening.

You are not always going to have your A game; you might have your D game. You have to find a way to throw strikes no matter what.

In one game I'd have defenders completely wiping me out, but three days later I'd have my chance to get revenge. What had happened a few days earlier would never affect my confidence.

They always say baseball is 90 percent mental, 10 percent physical, whatever that saying is. I don't even think I know it. But this game is already a game of failure. Going into it not feeling good, battling whatever injuries, tests you even more.

I love going to the ring hurt or sick or tired and trying to figure out how to win anyway.

The punches that don't knock you out are the ones you feel the most.

Teams go on runs. We have to be able to withstand a run and not get down on ourselves.

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

Resilience can go an awful long way.

I'm always curious to see how a fighter responds after suffering a first loss. I'm especially curious when that first loss is via knockout.

There's days where your shot's not falling.

I've seen young guys break down in those situations. They're cruising along, playing great, then their minutes get funky and they fall apart. Some of them never recover.

I've always felt like a little bit of an underdog at each level - never the tallest or strongest or even fastest. But one thing I've always tried to do was to play harder than anyone on the court.