Chris Gethard Quotes

Work hard, do the best you can, don't ever lose faith in yourself and take no notice of what other people say about you.

I have a tendency to pick up my own challenges. The more difficult something it is, the more I want to try it.

It doesn't matter what you're trying to accomplish. It's all a matter of discipline. I was determined to discover what life held for me beyond the inner-city streets.

One thing I've come to learn about myself is that I have to keep going.

I'm functioning on a lung and a half, but I have proved that it's possible to challenge yourself.

I love to be pushed so I can prove myself, because once again, I will.

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.

My dream was bigger than anything else. My fight and me wanting to fulfill what I wanted to be in life. That was enough to keep me strong enough to endure anything.

I enjoy a character who sticks to her guns, who's always challenging herself. That's something I can relate to.

The will to challenge myself is strong, but I think that's growing, the desire to stretch myself and make it hard.

A person like myself will keep challenging to see if I can keep doing it over and over again.

I struggle with my training sometimes. The thing I look at is if you keep getting up and moving forward, you'll be successful. That's the way I've lived my life. I'm not going to stop doing something because somebody says it's time. I'm going to stop it when my body says it's over or the fans say, 'we're done watching you.'

There has always been an inner self-motivation for me. Mine goes back to my United days of us against the world and proving everyone wrong.

People will try to bring you down, but you gotta go up.

Know that the power comes from within: when you are tired, or you want to give up, dig deep. Dig deep for whatever reason - in boxing, in sport, in life.

Everybody is calling me crazy because I want to do the Ironman. I'm not doing it to win it. I'm doing it to finish it. I'm racing myself, not a particular field or group of people.

When somebody says I can't do something, it motivates me to do it.

Something deep inside me lives by challenges.

The ramifications that you set for yourself can inspire you to do things that you would have never thought of because, once you're trapped, your job is to persevere.

I have had this desire my whole life to prove people wrong, to show them I could do things they didn't think I could do.

I just love it when people say I can't do something. There's nothing that makes me feel better, because all my life people have said I wasn't going to make it.

Despondency is not a state of humility; on the contrary, it is the vexation and despair of a cowardly pride--nothing is worse; whether we stumble or whether we fall, we must only think of rising again and going on in our course.

For me, when I get knocked down, I really try to get back up and go at it again. I don't like to give up.

I always pushed myself. Whenever I felt I needed to stop, I made myself run faster.

No. Never. I have to try my best or I'll become worse and worse. Even if I can't make up with them. Even if they all ignore me. I still have to try my best.