Clint Dempsey Quotes

In football, as in politics, resilience pays off.

When things go bad, the best thing to do is keep working and keep coaching.

I am someone who always gets up again, even if there are setbacks. I have a survivor instinct. I'm not sure where it comes from, but probably from all the little things that make you into who you are.

You have to be resilient.

Tennis is like, it gives you a lot of chances, but if you don't take those chances, it takes a lot of chances away from you. It's just the scoring pattern. We cannot dwell over a loss or a win for very long. We have no time to celebrate; we have no time to dwell; we have to move on. Wake up the next day and try and win the match.

Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Press on. Obstacles are seldom the same size tomorrow as they are today.

A true champion can adapt to anything.

It's the playoffs. You find a way to get through.

I have seen American determination in people like Debbi Sommers. She runs a furniture rental business for conventions in Las Vegas. When 9/11 hit, and again, when the recession tanked the conventions business, she didn't give up, close down, or lay off her people. She taught them not just to rent furniture, but also to manufacture it.

You can't let injuries dictate the outcome of a football game. You have to persevere and keep fighting. That is how we are. If there is a blade of grass to defend or take, we do it.

Never give up, because at the end of it all we all trying to win.

I've had to fight every year. That's kept me hungry.

It's not how you fall down or how low you go in life, but if you can get yourself up and set an example for even one person, then you've done your job.

People asked me, 'Why aren't you doing something more important?' When I was doing well in the D-League, they were like, 'Why can't you get an NBA job? Or a college job?' I don't think people thought much of what I was doing. That's fine. I was learning. Not just X's and O's, but team dynamics.

We just play, man. We go out there and we fight no matter the situation.

The human spirit is so resilient, and failure teaches you so much.

I was a team captain, I was the guy for the first couple years. And then all of the sudden I was just the backup. It wasn't easy. I think it would be easy to bow my head and feel sorry for myself, but I knew as a captain I had to be a great teammate.

I can play, it's not even a question, man. But, you know, sometimes you don't get in the game, man. What are you going to do? I'm not going to be upset; I'm going to support.

Throughout COVID, I just consistently grinded at my craft. I didn't let COVID get in the way of my goal and the goal is to be the best me that I can be for the team.

TNA didn't use me, but I got hungrier to wrestle. The struggle made me better.

Football is like that: you never know when things will change, so you can never give up.

I wasn't a kid who won every tournament I was playing, and I think that helped me - it motivated me a lot to know what it felt like not to win.

Losing doesn't make me want to quit. It makes me want to fight that much harder.

You can be stubborn and successful or you can give it up a bit and change things around. For me it's important to have a bit of both.