Michael Chang Quotes

I always thought I'm kind of a tough girl.

For me to get through the toughest periods in my life, I had to look within to find the energy to do it. I don't give up. Never have. Never will.

I learned that I'm really good with perseverance. I'm stronger than I thought I was inside. I also learned that I don't give up easily and that I trust and believe that things are going to be OK.

What is the most important is never to give up, never to give in to circumstances, to trust yourself.

If I played a bad game, there's gonna be people out there that want to try to bring me down. But I always stay up.

No matter how I might feel about myself or my self-image, there is still a part of me that wants to fight to the end.

But to do this kind of work, you have to be very strong, otherwise you lose your personality, your identity.

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

Tough times don't last, tough people do, remember?

What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.

I think everybody faces challenges in their lives. I've definitely been through it - not to the extreme that Astrid did. I try to keep some kind of identity and strength.

'Give up... it's time to quit,' I don't think I've ever really accepted those kinds of words in my life or vocabulary.

Strength does not have to be belligerent and loud.

I don't think I could live with myself if I stopped trying.

There's moments where I want to break down and cry, but not give up.

There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.

I just never, ever want to give up. Most battles are won in the 11th hour, and most people give up. If you give up once, it's quite hard. If you give up a second time, it's a little bit easier. Give up a third time, it's starting to become a habit.

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.

I love overcoming challenges and fear.

I knocked a lot of guys out from the seventh round on - so if I gave up, I would never have achieved what I did. There was no giving up. It's weak to give up. The easiest thing in the world is to quit.

My life I was raised to believe that you should never give in—that you should never give up.

Be strong, and of good courage.

My natural abilities weren't necessarily brute power and strength. They were more about the ability to endure and not give up.

I once wrote a book on courage and what made people courageous. I found it was a strength of belief matched by a strength of willpower.

I was a slightly overweight, spiky-fringed, rat's-tailed '80s girl who was just showing up. That's all I've ever really done to get here, just kept showing up. Even when I didn't want to. That's what I do.