Dikembe Mutombo Quotes

I dished out and suffered my fair share of bloody noses.

If you have a fall -- mental, moral, or physical -- pick yourself up and start over again immediately. If you do, in the long run life won't beat you.

... I stayed because running seemed too strange and too complicated. All I knew was how to fall back, find a patch of solid ground, and then dig my heels in and fight to start over.

We've had drive-by shootings. I've been spat on, slapped, shot at. One guy tried to stab me with a broken beer bottle. But the way we look at it, if people do the worst they can, we'll still wake up in glory.

When you see me smash somebody's skull, you enjoy it.

I've gotten into two fights since I've begun studying the martial arts, and each time, I was worried I'd kill the guy. One of my teachers always told me I had good power but bad control.

In football, you can always maim a person if you wanted to.

Most women don't play like guys do: they don't wrestle, fight, get into brawls. They don't know how to express themselves in a physical, active way.

Tall men come down to my height when I hit 'em in the body.

I overcame a lot of obstacles in my life and in my childhood.

My father taught me how to fight when I was 5.

I had hope, however; I had been wounded seven times during the war, and once before in this same lung; and I did not believe I was going to die.

I know I can fight; that's the only thing that matters to me.

Mother's father and brothers all took great interest in pugilism, and they knew the game well from much practice of their own. They were never so much delighted as when I visited them with a black eye or a bloody nose, at which time they would be at the trouble to give cunning points as to how to meet an opponent according to his weight and height.

I'm not like hurting by any means, but I'm not really, you know, let me say, I'm not really cool with doing fighting just to break even.

Fighting was the only way I felt self-worth, with people thinking I was the best.

I know how hard it is to come back from a brutal KO.

There's something weird about me the way even the biggest punches to the jaw don't wobble me, but if you can avoid being hit too often, so much the better.

I've done all my bike circuit cardio workouts when I know I gotta push my numbers higher and I gotta be better than I was before. It sucks. Your body doesn't want to do it, but I've done that. I know I have that in me.

Man, I fought since pre-K. I was small for my grade, but I was tough.

I understand why my mum and my wife can't bear to watch me fight. There's a lot of blood, a lot of pain.

There's no such thing as a lucky punch. You throw to hurt someone and if you hurt someone, job done.

Something's bound to happen to you in a tough fight: cut eye, broken nose or broken hand or something like that. So you could make excuses out of anything, you know, but you got to keep on going if you're a champ or you're a contender.

I had to play the cards that I was dealt to get better mentally, physically, and push myself to limits that I didn't think I was capable of.

Fighting is what I do.