Sonya Deville Quotes

In wrestling, there is no retreat. No way to slow things down. In wrestling, you advance and advance, and being tired is just a lie to make the other guy think he can relax. It's so hard - harder than anything I've ever done.

I envision Hollywood as a race, and some people simply drop off before their turn comes around. It's all about stamina - your ability to get back up and keep going even though everything is pointing at the odds not being in your favor.

It's been a long road. I've been cut, I've been all over the place, but my mentality has never changed.

I love going to the ring hurt or sick or tired and trying to figure out how to win anyway.

The one thing about me, if it is a 15-minute fight, I'm fighting every one of them 15 minutes. And if it's a 25-minute fight, I'll be fighting all 25 until the bell rings.

I don't think getting punched in the face is too fun. I keep going because this is what I am. Every time I fight, this is why we live. We have to feel this. That's how we become stronger. That's how we become champions.

I'm slower and some days are better than others, but I'm a fighter.

Players with fight never lose a game, they just run out of time

A true champion will fight through anything.

What winning is to me is not giving up, is no matter what's thrown at me, I can take it. And I can keep going.

Plus, when you get in tough situations, like the bases loaded and nobody out, you never give in.

In boxing, you get hit, it's painful, then you sit on the stool when the adrenaline is gone and you feel that pain. And then you fight the next round.

I outlasted my problems.

When times are tough I am not one for just throwing the towel in.

My dad was the way he was, but he also gave me a motto: never say die. Just to keep pushing and pushing, fighting until the end. He put it in my head that you're always going to fight, and you're always going to beat them.

As a decathlete, you take pride in saying, 'The elements, I'm not going to let them affect me. It's just the 11th event. Another thing you have to fight through.'

Just wanting to play, I think that's my biggest attribute, just wanting to play through whatever I have to in order to go out and compete.

People who race bikes don't talk about crashes. They keep going.

I came into the league fighting, and it looks like I'm going to go out fighting.

I've been in the boxing ring, taking punches to my face. I've always got back up.

I have been fascinated with survival and having to go on no matter what. That always appealed to me.

I've done stunts when I was hurting so bad I couldn't hardly breathe and yet I would go ahead and do it.

On a 60-mile trek with a 200-kg. bergen on my back, I felt my ankle break. Some might have given up. I broke my other ankle to even up the pain. And carried on.

I am a fighter. I learned it at Genk in my first year when we were fighting against going down. Also, at Bremen last year, it was very difficult. We had to fight more often than not. I will fight again to earn my place.

I like to keep fighting in the bad moments and I will never say I am done.