James Haskell Quotes

My whole life I've worked. My whole life I've been counted out.

The hardest thing to do is to fail and keep pushing at the same time.

I've had a lot of bumps in the road, but I kept my head down and kept working.

Sometimes, when things aren't coming easy, you've got to fight through that.

Some men can get results if kindly encouraged, but give me the kind that do things in spite of hell.

If you're going through hell, keep going.

People look at me like I'm on my way out of the game. I'm just getting started.

It is a struggle. But I don't mind. I will just keep fighting on.

On my tombstone it will say: 'I tried everything - nothing was easy.'

But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, and baffled, get up and begin again.

Most people would have given up when faced with all the criticism I've received over the years.

You know, there is always times where you feel discouraged and things coming against you, but I don't know if I ever wanted to throw in the towel.

No one ever wanted to hire me. Ever. I've never been recruited anywhere. I have beat my head against every wall, at every place that I worked.

When I was a little boy, Marvin Hagler was my idol. He got no respect for most of his career. His fighting style was straight ahead. He took every shot thrown at him, and he kept punching back 'til he won. I honestly feel that's how I am. I take big shots from people. But I keep going.

We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.

I thrive on obstacles. If I'm told that it can't be told, then I push harder.

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

They've pushed me down a big ravine, but I'll get back up to the top.

I won't quit until I get run over by a truck, a producer or a critic.

We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.

You can't cry when things get a little bit hard. You've just got to push through and know that there's a reason and end to the means.

When times are tough I am not one for just throwing the towel in.

I have this image of myself as kinda like the Energizer Bunny. I get knocked down, and I pop right back up.

There came a point where I did give up on music, but I'm the kind of person that when I face obstacles, I become more determined. It's just something weird within me.

Things are not going to be easy, things are not going to be fair. Just do your best.