Kevin Knox Quotes

The triumph can't be had without the struggle.

The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.

As an athlete, you sort of just win every day. Because you're going to sometimes lose every day. And so you just keep picking yourself up and going forward.

The truth is that throughout my careers in both chess and the martial arts, I often knew that my rivals were more naturally gifted than me - either with their mental machines or their bodies. But I have believed in my training, my approach to learning, and my ability to rise to the challenge under pressure.

A lot of sport is being comfortable with being uncomfortable.

I've been in situations in my career where I've had slumps and struggles. I always stick with it and just keep working.

I'm a big believer in having to go through hard times to get to where you want to be. Nothing comes easy. You have to work.

I work really hard, and have had many opportunities to give up and throw the towel in. But I never did.

Entrepreneurship is enduring pain for a long time without relinquishing.

We've had to pay to play. We've had to borrow kit. We've had to train on a Friday night. Maybe a lot of boys, given that opportunity, would slip away, whereas we've had the mentality to go, 'I really want this. I'm going to show that I can do this.'

Tennis can be a very frustrating sport. There is no way around the hard work. Embrace it. You have to put in the hours because there is always something you can improve. [Y]ou have to put in a lot of sacrifice and effort for sometimes little reward but you have to know that, if you put in the right effort, the reward will come.

Not everything is about beating your head against the wall until it breaks.” “Just most things.

If I'd been bright, I'd have realized that I was horribly uncomfortable, amazingly frustrated, and like any sensible person, I'd have quit. But it never occurred to me that I wouldn't be successful eventually.

I outlasted my problems.

It is unnatural to deny effort, adversity, and pain.

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?'

When you stick to what you're doing, sometimes that road ain't as easy as the rest of them.

After you do this for a while, you get used to things not working the way you want them to. There's a job you want, and you don't get it. There's a movie you'd like to get made, and it doesn't get made. You become inured to it.

Change is hard and requires constant struggle and determination.

I've carried my chip with me my entire career. I've had to fight and claw for every position I've had. I sat on the bench as a junior in high school, I had to compete my senior year in high school to get the job. I competed again at Vanderbilt before having success.

I'm aware that there are a lot of guys playing at amateur level with a build like mine and I say stick at it, use what you've got to make an impact on the game.

There's moments where things are harder than others, and there are obviously questions, but when it comes down to it, there is no quit in me.

Struggles are what made everything worth while.

We don't always get our respect but you've got to deal with it and go out there every week and just win football games.

It was tough to fail year after year. I never even got to the final stage until I got my card on the Web.com Tour. But I always believed that I could be something special. I just had to prove it to myself.