Adrian Lewis Quotes

It's not who's the best - it's who can take the most pain.

It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired - you quit when the gorilla is tired.

The Finals are about a test of wills.

Fighting, especially at this level, is about getting through adversity. You position yourself mentally to go out and take on obstacles that stand in your way. In the Octagon and in life, you face tough situations and have every chance to quit, but the more adversity you push through, the more likely you are to be successful.

If you get into an armbar and someone locks it down on you, it's easy for you to tap out, but sometimes dealing with certain things, fighting through certain adversities, and being that I've been in some of the toughest situations in life, it just gives me an edge on my opponent that I'm going to torture him and beat him up.

Are you the sort of person who can turn around when you have nothing left, and find that little bit extra inside you to keep going, or do you sag and wilt with exhaustion? It is a mental game, and it is hard to tell how people will react until they are squeezed.

Fatigue makes fools of us all. It robs you of your skills and your judgment, and it blinds you to creative solutions. It's the best-conditioned athlete, not the most talented, who generally wins when the going gets tough.

Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.

When you're at your absolute, most exhausted... That's when you have to be at the top of your game.

I'm interested in that thing that happens where there's a breaking point for some people and not for others. You go through such hardship, things that are almost impossibly difficult, and there's no sign that it's going to get any better, and that's the point when people quit. But some don't.

As a decathlete, you take pride in saying, 'The elements, I'm not going to let them affect me. It's just the 11th event. Another thing you have to fight through.'

You have to keep control mentally when you go a goal down.

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

Every game is mentally and physically tough but we get through it and it makes you stronger.

There's going to be bumps along the way, in any walk of life, not just as a professional footballer with injuries. You've got to be resilient with it and keep pushing through. It'll make you stronger as well.

Obviously, teams start wearing down. But that's kind of when you thrive, when the other team starts to get tired.

The way I dig in to push myself through mountain climbs is totally psychological. I'm not designed to do that stuff. It's mind over matter.

Tennis is a tough sport - a long year, a lot of matches, a lot of travelling. It's not easy so being mentally tough is a big attribute. It doesn't come easy, you have to work on it.

Football is not always easy; you need to navigate through some adversity.

You have to stay strong when it gets tough.

Quitting is unthinkable and pain is just weakness leaving the body

Dark clouds may hang on me sometimes, but I'll work it out.

People need trouble - a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do; I don't mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.

I think helped our players in terms of being able to fight through some adversity along the way.

What counts in the ring is what you can do after you're exhausted. The same is true of life.