Brian Ortega Quotes

If you don't give power to the words that people throw at you to hurt you, they don't hurt you anymore. And you actually have power over those people.

But I still think it's mind over matter in the sense that if you're strong, you can combat anything.

I'm really tough. It's a state of mind.

If I don't believe it, then they don't need me on the court. I've just got to believe that in my heart.

Remembering what you've been through and how that has strengthened your mindset can lift you out of a negative brain loop and help you bypass those weak, one-second impulses to give in. Even if you're feeling low and beat down by life right now, I guarantee you can think of a time or two when you overcame odds and tasted success.

Comebacks are not at all easy. After a major surgery, the difficult part is to conquer the inner demons. It's all in the mind. Only an individual can overcome his fears.

Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure.

Fear mustn't take control of us.

I'm more about mind over muscle. My mindset needs to be the fittest, because it drags my body through whatever needs to be done. A lot of people neglect training their mind and their self-belief, but I believe that's crucial.

In my mind, I've never lost a fight.

Mental strength is really important because you either win or lose in your mind. And I'm not solely talking about sporting matches, boxing events - anything you do, you do it first with your mental strength. And you can actually train and develop it, and I am responsible for what I'm saying because I have experience with that.

Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.

No one goes unscathed, we all go through things. We just can't let people's nasty words become our beliefs about ourselves, you know?

I'm a very positive thinker, and I think that is what helps me the most in difficult moments.

We all survive more than we think we can.

I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.

That's my gift. I let that negativity roll off me like water off a duck's back. If it's not positive, I didn't hear it. If you can overcome that, fights are easy.

Always, if you win mentally, you can win physically as well.

What are you going to do? Admit to yourself that the pitchers have you on the point of surrender? You can't do that. You must make yourself think that the pitchers are just as good as they always have been or just as bad.

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

I guess once you've seen Uma Thurman beaten up endlessly in the 'Kill Bill' movies, you think, 'If Uma can take it, what's the matter with me?'

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

We're stronger than we realize.

Athletes have to be confident and I am thinking like that.