Ariel Helwani Quotes

Great fighters get beat, and great fighters come back.

No one gets beat by 61 and then come out and plays flat the next game.

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.

Every season will have its dips and hard moments, and the challenge then is to make sure you don't get too down in those moments and make sure you come back fighting.

It is important when you are losing to come back and not get beat.

In one game I'd have defenders completely wiping me out, but three days later I'd have my chance to get revenge. What had happened a few days earlier would never affect my confidence.

It's never easy to lose the games and then come back stronger.

Even when I do miss easy balls I feel I can come back.

That's what makes a fighter. I got dropped and I got back up, and I found a way to get the win.

I really think a champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall

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

Obviously kicking is very mental and if you do struggle it is a little harder to go out there with confidence, but the good ones, if they miss they can bounce right back and make the next one.

Nobody breaks in a fight and comes back in the same fight. Once you break, you're done for the night. You've gotta go back. You've gotta shower up. You've gotta fly home. You've got to reassess, take three or four months, and try it again. But that Anderson Silva breaks in that fight, and still finds a way to win, is remarkable.

I'm a survivor, man. I done had my ups and downs, but I've got get-back skills for real for real. I refuse to fall.

I know the position I'm in. Guys are going to try and take me out, but I got to be able to overcome it all and not let those type of things affect me.

I'm the type of fighter who has never made an excuse. I fought with a broken rib, broken leg.

I'm a sportsman. I am used to failures, and bouncing back from them.

Where you have a little setback or you are out of the team you're considered a different player but you know you will come out of the other side of it.

I'm confident in myself. It's not a case of I've missed a penalty, and I'm down.

I was never taught to lose or take losing.

Everyone can train hard when they are feeling good. But it's the days when you're feeling bad that you have to step up. That's when champions step up. They pull through.

That's where I get my toughness in mind. From my background when I was young, everything I've been through, everything I was going through in my life. It helped me a lot, it helped me to be strong.

After a big defeat, any player feels affected - it is about how long he needs to recover.

MMA is pretty tough on your mind because it's a sport that's not just about winning. You really want to win bad, but it's tough when you lose. You get beaten. And it really messes with your ego, because nobody wants to get beaten by other people physically. It's not just a game. You get beaten physically.