Alexander Gustafsson Quotes

First principle: never to let one's self be beaten down by persons or by events.

My own father had always said the measure of a man wasn't how many times or how hard he got knocked down, but how fast he got back up. I made a pledge to myself that I would get up and emerge from this debacle better for having gone through it. I would live up to the expectation I had for myself. I would be the kind of man I wanted to be.

Life hits you hard. But it takes you three seconds to decide if you are a superhero or not. I am.

If I fall, I fall. I'll rise up like anybody else.

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.

If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.

No man who has brought himself back from what might have been an entire life of invalidism to strength, and activity, physical and mental and spiritual can ever be accused of preaching or exemplifying a mollycoddle philosophy.

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

I'm quite a strong person, and I've become even stronger.

I want to test my will.

I won't let anything destroy me.

I have fought all my life, that is easy for me.

I'm a pretty strong person.

The more people that write me off, the stronger I get.

I have been fighting from a very young age. There is no fear there. It helped me cultivate the mindset of a fighter.

You don't win a fight by the size and the weight.

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.

Throw me in deep enough, and I sink or swim. I don't care who I fight.

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.

Strength just comes in one brand - you. Stand up at sunrise and meet what they send you and keep your hair combed

There is always a chance to get even and I'm proud of the fact that for all the blows I always got back up again. That's what makes me most content.

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

Will is not unfrequently weakness.

We can all be weak, but we all have to make a conscious decision to be strong.

Knowing that the battle will not end the way he wishes does not make it any less worthwhile the fight.