Peter Crouch Quotes

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.

It's the playoffs. You find a way to get through.

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 you play on bad surfaces, you have to show your character and keep your concentration for the whole 90 minutes.

It's not for everybody, and some of the toughest people I've ever met in my lifetime, I met in the wrestling ring.

When you play injured, you're still judged like you're 100 percent. You know you can't do all you want to, but you want to get back to help your teammates.

It's the essence of sport to be able to swallow tough things up.

For me, football is a quest. Quests entail overcoming hardship, trials of adversity in the pursuit of true joy.

I admire anyone who can show they can dig deep. Ballesteros and Sergio Garcia, people who are obviously mentally strong. Or Graham Thorpe. He is your fighter. He's the kid who is bullied at school but will stand up in a fight when it matters.

It was playing on the varzea where I learned to be a warrior, to fight for every ball, and then to never give it away.

Anytime you play basketball and your backs are to the wall, you have to come out and play aggressive.

There is no final victory, as there is no final defeat. There is just the same battle. To be fought, over and over again. So toughen up, bloody toughen up.

There is something glamorous to me in taking a bit of a beating and keeping on going.

Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows. It's a very mean and nasty place and I don't care how tough you are it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain't about how hard you hit. It's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done!

Don't matter what they throw at us. Only angry people win football games.

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

If you can't take it, you won't make it.

I went on and was still able to play some good hockey.

The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part.... The essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well.

I bend but do not break.

Whether football's here or not, I will be fine. I go out, I play to win.

They'd better be physically tough when they start pulling on their football pants.

Test cricket tests your ability as a cricketer but also bring out your true character.

People don't understand the analogy of football and acting, but there's a great deal of it that's the same. You get dressed in the room, and you think you've got it all prepared, and later on in the game you wish you had put on more pads 'cause they're just kicking the hell out of you. God almighty, I've been beat up by the best.

The only way to make it through life is to fight.