Jimmy Graham Quotes

There have been so many people that have come up and embraced me as an example of what it's like to face something tough and just get up the next day and keep pushing.

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

If you've been hit, if you've been put down, if you've lost, that next time you come out, you have to make a testament: you have to make a demonstration, a showing, that it's not going to happen again.

My dad always said, 'Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.'

I have a different kind of experience than other girls had. I've had to face a lot of different styles and adjust to them. I had to face a lot of bad situations and come back. I've had to fight with my eyes swollen shut and my nose broken and bloody.

There are so many difficult things we're living through in the world today, so many horrible events, but we cannot let them stop us. No matter what happens, I feel you must move forward with optimism and not get totally sideswiped.

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

No one is perfect in this world, and we all have our battles, but it's the way we get back on our feet and turn it around that really counts.

Reality show? You can't find anything better than boxing because of the trials and errors, the ups and downs, the struggle when you get knocked down to get back up. Use it symbolically and interchangeably for life.

Yield not to calamity, but face her boldly.

Since I was a child, my father was sick. I've always known him to be that way. That's why I'm proud of him - he has a disease he's obviously struggling with, but he's not letting it stop him from doing what he wants to do.

Somehow I kept my head above water. I relied on the discipline, character, and strength that I had started to develop as that little girl in her first swimming pool.

John, you have broken many times, physically and otherwise, and you have always grown stronger, but what you don't really understand in my humble opinion is how much courage you give the rest of us looking at you.

People striving, being knocked down and coming back... this is what builds character in a man.

It's how many times you get back up that defines you.

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.

My character is 'Get up and keep fighting,' unless I've been nailed to the ground.

I've been in the boxing ring, taking punches to my face. I've always got back up.

You are going to get knocked down, but you don't lie there. You get up and face the challenge.

Maybe I'm not the best fighter, but I'm always going to fight, no matter who it is.

As any fighter does, we all go down. Very few get up. I've done it on multiple occasions.

Sometimes you fall down, but you have to pick yourself back up.

If you suffer a setback but recover from it you become all the stronger as person and a fighter.

For the most part, if you're willing to work hard enough, you can recover from most injuries. Having that mentality really helps you keep moving forward.

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