Naseem Hamed Quotes

The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.

I've been knocked down more than any heavyweight champion in history.

I lost my first professional fight, but came back and won fights until I fought for the world title.

You always recognize great champions... how they come back from a loss.

France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.

Sport and life is about losing. It's about understanding how to lose.

Every fighter has one fight that makes or breaks him.

It's the fight game, and everyone loses. You win some, you lose some. You just try to get back up on the horse.

I've been in that situation three or four times before where I'm losing the fight - the fight seems almost over with - and I knew I had to finish him and stop playing possum as much.

I've come back from all my losses and won world titles every time.

I learned how much determination I have and that no matter what the score is, anyone can come back.

As any fighter does, we all go down. Very few get up. I've done it on multiple occasions.

I've come back from losses and won world titles.

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

A true champion will fight through anything.

America is a country of fighters. People who fought their way in and then continued fighting.

It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

We will not be beaten. But we may be shamed and embarrassed on a needlessly long road to victory.

We are equally glad and surprised at Winston's return to office. It shows that he was built for success that he should have declined to withdraw and sulk over a superficial failure.

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.

Football is one of those games that definitely relates to life in a lot of ways. Everything can be going good, and just like that, you have a turnover. Things are going south, you're going the opposite direction. How are you going to recover from it? That's the beauty in this game.

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

My last fight wasn't the way I wanted it to go so there is a hole there; don't count me out.

The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. That's the essence of it.