Grayson Allen Quotes

I have to constantly keep pushing myself.

Mental toughness is a lifestyle. It's something that you live every single day of your life. When I was growing up, I was a lazy kid. I was a lazy kid, and everybody goes, 'How did you get to where you're at today? How did you get to where you're running 200 miles at one time in 39 hours? Being so disciplined?'

If you get beaten, and you know that you tried your hardest and kept your focus, then that's all you can do.

Natural ability is important, but you can go far without it if you have the focus, drive, desire and positive attitude.

Boxing gave me a path in life. Because of boxing, I learned what I'm capable of achieving if I put my mind to it and how hard work can and will pay off in the end. It gave me confidence and taught me to face fear straight on and dig down deep when times get tough.

I always train my weaknesses and work on my shortcomings - in the gym and outside the gym. Ha!

Success comes in doing the hard work - not breaking each other down, but building each other up. I don't expect any less from myself.

I've always pushed myself hard.

I've been motivated by overcoming challenge and overcoming the hurdles and obstacles that face me. There still is plenty out there to get motivated by.

To have faith doesn't mean you get any less frustrated when you don't do your best, but you know that it's not life and death. Take what you're given, and when you continue to work hard, you will see results. That will give you the confidence you need to keep going.

Beast Mode doesn't make excuses. It doesn't complain. Whatever you're doing, go out there and get it done. Keep pushing. If I have a bad game, I think about what I have to do to return to form. Figure it out, go to sleep, and wake up a new man.

How you looked was not important. It was what you did and how you did it. Decide to do it and then do it the best way you can.

I'll always use the negativity as more motivation to work even harder and become even stronger.

The discipline you learn and character you build from setting and achieving a goal can be more valuable than the achievement of the goal itself.

I always believe someone somewhere is working harder than me and that motivates me to work harder, give 100%.

When you fail you learn from the mistakes you made and it motivates you to work even harder.

Running taught me valuable lessons. In cross-country competition, training counted more than intrinsic ability, and I could compensate for a lack of natural aptitude with diligence and discipline. I applied this in everything I did.

Confidence comes from discipline and training.

Understanding motivation is one of the most important things we can do in our lives, because it has such a bearing on why we do the things we do and whether we enjoy them or not.

I think it's really important to keep on staying motivated.

So I try not to have any actual expectations for myself for any level of success or failure.

Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating. But I carried that with me for the rest of my life.

Kids will come into my boxing gym with no discipline, and then you teach them how to focus and love what they're doing, which then travels outside into their home and work life.

All of us, in a sense, struggle continuously all the time, because we never get what we want. The important thing which I've really learned is how do you not give up, because you never succeed in the first attempt.

If you try to do your best there is no failure.