Andre Ward Quotes

I said in my mind, 'keep fighting.'

Fight and push harder for what you believe in, you'd be surprised, you are much stronger than you think.

Fighting is not physical, fighting is spiritual. It's the determination and the will in the guy.

True endurance, I think, comes from the inside. It comes from motivation and belief in what you're doing.

Fighting is life... Are you a person who gives up or are you a person who's going to fight?

I'm really tough. It's a state of mind.

Your heaviest artillery will be your will to live. Keep that big gun going.

I don't have stamina in exercise... but I have it in life.

People throw in the towel because they don't know how to fight. You'd be surprised how much fight you have in you if you just do it.

At the end of the day, you can be physically strong, you can have all the tools out there, but if your mental state isn't good enough, you can't bring yourself to bigger and better things.

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.'

What Conte gave me was hunger, the desire to never give in, the mentality that allows you to go beyond pain to reach your objectives.

That's what really gets me going, thinking about my past. I think about all the tough times and bad times I've had in my life and I bring all that into the Octagon. That's only because it's hard going in there trying to fight someone who didn't do anything to you.

As soon as I put on gloves, I knew. I felt heart and determination. It's in you, not on you. I just loved to fight and I knew that it was going to take me where I needed to go. I never had any doubt.

. . . show the other side, the one that gets people out of bed the next morning, makes them scratch and scrape and fight for their lives because someone is telling them that they're going to be okay.

When life seems hard, the courageous do not lie down and accept defeat; instead, they are all the more determined to struggle for a better future.

I think when I stop fighting, I die in a sense.

I think it rather fine, this necessity for the tense bracing of the will before anything worth doing can be done. I rather like it myself. I feel it is to be the chief thing that differentiates me from the cat by the fire.

I wanted to finish on a stronger note. Fighting through that routine, you know what I was like, 'I'm just fighting through.'

And then he sank back and tried, as usual, not to think. He must succeed. That's what the world was made for. That's what he was made for. That was what he would have to do.

I was laying in bed one night and I thought 'I'll just quit - to hell with it.' And another little voice inside me said 'Don't quit - save that tiny little ember of spark.' And never give them that spark because as long as you have that spark, you can start the greatest fire again.

It's been a tough season for all of us, but all we can do is keep fighting and showing character to the end of the season

If I don't give up in the ring, I don't give up in life... I try to live my life the same way.

Get yourself prepared, educationally and emotionally, and develop mental toughness. Don't ever give up.

Morale is the state of mind. It is steadfastness and courage and hope.