Victor Ortiz Quotes

The more people that write me off, the stronger I get.

The overcoming of adversity and, ultimately, denying it the rite of passage, has been a constant and perpetual motive throughout my life.

I've had to learn to fight all my life - got to learn to keep smiling. If you smile things will work out.

Overcoming adversity not only makes you stronger, it makes you more hopeful.

When I have criticism that I feel is unfair, the rejection does disturb me, but it also strengthens me. I used to get turned down for all sorts of jobs. I used to writhe in pain, but then I would say, 'Good. Good. I will get stronger for this.'

The biggest thing for me is that I've managed to work through some difficult times, and those moments always make you stronger. It makes you a stronger person and a better player.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

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.

The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions, but nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage were born.

In my life I had no other choice than to become a strong person.

The struggle I went through has value.

'Growing Stronger' emerged from a need to relate my life experiences as well as my constant struggle to prevail each day, and as a reminder to myself of the importance of never giving up.

I've always felt like the underdog, and I'm comfortable with that label.

I've been shut down, run down, talked about, dogged out, but that never stopped me from the being the true me that's here and will be here.

What doesn't kill you only makes you stronger.

I'll never lose the sense of being an underdog.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

I'm not used to crying. It's a little difficult. All my life I've had to fight. It's just another fight I'm going to have to learn how to win, that's all. I'm just going to have to keep smiling.

I proved to myself that I can overcome a lot of things that probably would have broken some people.

The struggles don't define you. It's how you handle them that determines who you are.

When you have bad moments, you have to improve. You have to become stronger to deal with it, and I believe I have become stronger.

People have been calling me names and setting me back my whole life. And with every fight it's just given me more fuel to my fire and in doing so I've become a success.

The stuff I've seen and lived and survived. Gun to my head, cops coming to your house. I had the confidence of telling myself that I'm going to make it. Everything I've been through, I could've had a mental breakdown, but I kept it together. If I didn't have that confidence I wouldn't have made it. That confidence has nothing to do with basketball.

My hardest lesson has been my most fruitful, too: that when people don't believe in me, I can prove them wrong.