Mustafa Ali Quotes

Mentally, I could fight forever. I feel I'm the best fighter on the planet. My mind says I can fight forever, but physically, I won't be able to do it.

When your body quits on you, it doesn't matter how mentally tough you are.

Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.

I'm interested in that thing that happens where there's a breaking point for some people and not for others. You go through such hardship, things that are almost impossibly difficult, and there's no sign that it's going to get any better, and that's the point when people quit. But some don't.

My knee has always given me problems. But it got to the point where I actually had to start giving up things. And I hate that.

My life I was raised to believe that you should never give in—that you should never give up.

You play with pain. You don't think about it.

I think me having one hand made me work even harder than many other people.

I love going to the ring hurt or sick or tired and trying to figure out how to win anyway.

My mind still wants to do everything; my body can't anymore. My mind would want to continue until I was 100.

If you get into an armbar and someone locks it down on you, it's easy for you to tap out, but sometimes dealing with certain things, fighting through certain adversities, and being that I've been in some of the toughest situations in life, it just gives me an edge on my opponent that I'm going to torture him and beat him up.

I have always been strong. My mentality is just that way; that's why I've been around so long.

There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over, and men are no longer willing to be plunged into the abyss of despair.

Pain is temporary. Eventually it will subside. If I quit, however, the surrender stays with me.

Even if your body doesn't work the way it used to, the heart and the mind and the spirit are not diminished.

No matter how bad a state of mind you may get into, if you keep strong and hold out, eventually the floating clouds must vanish and the withering wind must cease.

Mentally, I'm not ever going to go away.

A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight!

I know it seems hard sometimes but remember one thing. Through every dark night, there's a bright day after that. So no matter how hard it get, stick your chest out, keep ya head up.... and handle it.

Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you--gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of--and I can! I'm determined to do it--and nothing's more determined than a cat on a tin roof--is there?

Ham smiled. "Cett's going to be furious." Elend shrugged. "He's a paraplegic. What's he going to do? Bite us?

For suffering and enduring there is no remedy, but striving and doing.

Listen to me, he said, when your dreams are of some world that never was or some world that never will be, and you're happy again, then you'll have given up. Do you understand? And you can't give up, I won't let you.