Leonardo Bonucci Quotes

Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.

I like feeling like I could probably fail, because it makes me find a part of myself that I didn't really know: an inner fighter in me.

That's what really gets me going, thinking about my past. I think about all the tough times and bad times I've had in my life and I bring all that into the Octagon. That's only because it's hard going in there trying to fight someone who didn't do anything to you.

My main inspirations are the people around me, heartbreaks, frustration and everything that makes you feel stronger than you should.

When you're doing bad things, you just don't know whether you can conquer them or not. I found out how strong I could be when I was motivated, and I'm kind of proud of that.

Yes, I now that you feel you are not strong enough. That's what the enemy thinks too. But we're gonna fool them.

Any personal crisis - you have to use it to get stronger.

Sometimes to go forward you've got to go to the depths of your own personal despair and claw yourself back. From that point, no matter what happens, you know you can do it.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.

If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

'That which does not kill me makes me stronger' is not a law of the universe. What it can be, if we so choose, is a resolution.

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

I really believe in the old expression that what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. It's through adversity that you find the strength you never knew you had.

I pass through the difficult moments in life, really difficult times on grass, during my seven years of my career. All of a sudden I felt comfortable.

Everything's the same; I'm living with cancer and it's not going to stop me. But until you really test yourself and challenge yourself, I don't think you quite know.

You learn who you really are in a fight - what you're really made of. You have to face yourself and rise above your own fears and failings.

When you see how you react when you suffer that's when you know what you are made of.

We're stronger than we realize.

I have learned that a bitter experience can make you stronger.

From a person standpoint, the old expression of what doesn't kill you makes you stronger is somewhat true.

Fear has been a big battle, it runs rampant in my sport so I love to overcome that, to challenge it head on, because there is nothing that feels as accomplished as overcoming a fear, and something that has blocked you in such a big way.

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above it.

The human spirit and what it can go through... that's pretty inspiring.