Ian Thorpe Quotes

You can't avoid pain, but you can choose to overcome it.

Accustom yourself to submit on all and every occasion, and on the most minute, no less than on the most important circumstances of life, to a small present evil, to obtain a greater distant good. This will give decision, tone, and energy to the mind, which, thus disciplined, will often reap victory from defeat and honor from repulse.

Can't react every time you're insulted. Free people absorb destructive things and refuse to be destroyed

During critical periods, a leader is not allowed to feel sorry for himself, to be down, to be angry, or to be weak. Leaders must beat back these emotions

What we want is muscles of iron and nerves of steel. We have wept long enough. No more weeping, but stand on your feet and be men. It is man-making theories that we want. It is man-making education all round that we want.

Life is meant to be a challenge, because challenges are what make you grow.

I won't back down. I get a satisfaction from being tested and defeating the test.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

Life doesn't stop because something happens to you.

So much of a professional athlete's success depends upon not necessarily the play itself but how he deals with... always saying how you deal with good, is just as important as how you deal with bad.

Somehow I kept my head above water. I relied on the discipline, character, and strength that I had started to develop as that little girl in her first swimming pool.

Strength of character does not consist solely in having powerful feelings, but in maintaining one’s balance in spite of them

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above it.

A lot of things I've done in my life have taken incredible mental fortitude.

No difficulty can discourage, no obstacle dismay, no trouble dishearten the man who has acquired the art of being alive. Difficulties are but dares of fate, obstacles but hurdles to try his skill, troubles but bitter tonics to give him strength; and he rises higher and looms greater after each encounter with adversity.

I've never had one of those middle of the nights when I go, 'Why me?' or 'I don't know if I can keep fighting like this.' No. Those thoughts don't even enter my mind.

I proved to myself that I can overcome a lot of things that probably would have broken some people.

It's tough when you get beat. You have to be able to come back mentally. Sometimes the offense is going to win, but you have to be able to be level-headed and not get too upset when they do catch the ball.

Sometimes things don't go exactly as you'd wish. You have to be mentally strong to overcome those moments.

Even when I'm in pain, I play.

I have been knocked down so many times, as a player and as a person, and I have had the strength, I suppose that has come from my parents, to be able to pick myself each and every single time and go out there in the face of adversity and try my best and perform. I didn't read it up in a book. It's deep down and it's part of my family trait.

No matter what comes your way, shake it off and move forward. When you have a positive mindset, you can't be defeated.

I do not murmur, even if my heart break.

You have to stay strong when it gets tough.