Larry Holmes Quotes

It doesn't always happen according to the way you have planned things out but I feel if you have covered most of the aspects, it does help out there in the middle.

I've heard there are troubles of more than one kind; some come from ahead, and some come from behind. But I've brought a big bat. I'm all ready, you see; now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!

I learned two basic lessons on Everest. First, just because something has worked in the past does not mean it will work today. Second, different challenges require different mindsets.

I am not preparing myself or my family for anything but life.

A lot of things have been thrown at me in life, and I've got through it all without a rule book, taking it one day at a time.

One should be always ready to face difficult situations and take risk also.

You need to be ready to bat, whatever you are given; you have to take what is thrown at you.

All I can do is keep going out there and playing hard, and whatever happens happens.

Everything is pretty good in my life, and like everybody else, things happen, and you put your head down and solve challenges.

Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.

Not everything is going to go exactly as you plan. It's what you do when everything breaks down.

Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.

Either I will find a way, or I will make one.

If you get too attached to how you want it to come out the other side, you freeze. I try to trust that it will work out in the end.

When things go wrong or don't turn out the way you pictured them in your head, you just have to go with the best intentions defense. I have a lot of good intentions.

Because if you're prepared and you know what it takes, it's not a risk. You just have to figure out how to get there. There is always a way to get there.

This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.

You can't say what the outcome of a competition is going to be, so now I am ready to accept any result that comes my way, if I give my best shot.

For me, I always feel that I'm not sure what's going to happen next year or what's going to happen the year after or what's in the future. So I really kind of just focus on the project at hand and try to do the best that I can. And that, for me, is as much as I can control.

Often I had to imagine the things I needed. I learned very early to read amidst noise. And so I started writing and drawing at an early age.

When I had challenges, it taught me to be more on top of it for the future. Things go wrong all the time when you're running your own business, but it's how you perceive it and deal with it that matters.

If I was hearing something I couldn't do, I would figure out how to do it.

Sometimes if you want to achieve something great, there will be curveballs. You just have to dodge them every once in a while.

What you've got to do is recognize that you don't control everything for a start, you've got to play the cards you're dealt, the hand of cards you're dealt, as best you can, and that's what I always seek to do.

I have a very clear vision as to what I want at the end of my prep, and then I throw it out and let the creative process take over.