Gegard Mousasi Quotes

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.

I'm always the underdog, and I go in there and win the fights.

I've had my ups. I've had my downs, but I've been able to push through every obstacle that's been thrown my way.

I won't back down. I get a satisfaction from being tested and defeating the test.

When I was 4 years old, my brother and sister died of hunger, so I achieved my success through confidence, self-motivation and my hard work.

Athletes are used to battling. The public would never learn their names if professional athletes had not shown courage at an early age. They learn they can overcome, but sometimes this becomes a false sense of security that leads them to the edge.

I love to win; but I love to lose almost as much. I love the thrill of victory, and I also love the challenge of defeat.

Everything that I've ever been able to accomplish in skating and in life has come out of adversity and perseverance.

I'm so grateful for where I am now, but I think I'm more grateful because it's been so hard-won; I haven't given up, and I've had plenty of reasons to give up.

It is in the midst of disasters that bold men grow bolder.

I'd rather be the underdog than anything.

I've always had to fight. Throughout my life, it's been a fight to get to where I am now.

I always try to find something where I feel like I'm kind of the underdog and kind of put that little chip on my shoulder.

It's no better feeling than coming into a game being the underdog, and everybody going around telling you you can't win, and people say we going to lose by this much and that much.

Bollywood has taught me a lot of lessons. Sometimes it has been very hard, but every struggle and obstacle that I overcame made me stronger and made me more aware.

It's fun down there to actually go up against a 7-footer and you know you're undersized and you know people are telling you that you can't guard this guy, you can't do that. I take it as a challenge.

I've always had to work twice as hard as everybody, growing up.

There have been plenty of stories of people who go through adversity and had a bump in the road. The guys who persevere and continue to work hard, it turns out OK for them.

Nothing in my life has ever come easy.

I'm an underdog by nature, and I like to be fighting. I don't make music for myself. I make music to fight.

No man is beaten until his hope is annihilated, his confidence gone, As long as a man faces life hopefully, confidently, triumphantly, he is not a failure; he is not beaten until he turns his back on life.

I do not lose; I just do not get decisions sometimes. You lose when you quit. I have never quit. When it comes down to a decision, judges make a decision as to which fighter they want to win the fight. I have always been able to survive no matter whom they decide to give the fight to.

I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease but the doctrine of the strenuous life; the life of toil and effort; of labour and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes not to the man who desires mere easy peace but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph. A life of ignoble ease, a life of that peace which springs merely from lack either of desire or of power to strive after great things, is as little worthy of a nation as of an individual.

The bigger the fight, the better.

Sometimes your haters are your biggest motivators.