Muhammad Ali Quotes

It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

I learned that deep within myself, if I fight to the end, I can always find a way to win.

The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

Human survival is something that you can't see in another person; you can see if someone has that will to survive or that will to win; you can't see that, you can only watch that evolve over time.

Tough times don't last, tough people do, remember?

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Every fighter has a story that could break your heart. We lose, we get hurt and everything comes apart. That's when it's so difficult to stay on the straight and narrow.

It takes a lot of energy and creativity to make such screwed up lives carry on. And the kind of will people have to survive, year after year, dealing with that stuff, is weirdly impressive.

I just think that there are those people that their resolve is strengthened by what it is that's keeping them down, and there are some people that will buckle under it. You never know which one is which until you get into the eighth or ninth round of the fight.

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

Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished.

There is a strength of a quiet endurance as significant of courage as the most daring feats of prowess.

I think just that dog inside of you. When things suck, just to still fight.

I learned how much determination I have and that no matter what the score is, anyone can come back.

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

I'm a survivor, man. I done had my ups and downs, but I've got get-back skills for real for real. I refuse to fall.

I have been knocked down so many times, as a player and as a person, and I have had the strength, I suppose that has come from my parents, to be able to pick myself each and every single time and go out there in the face of adversity and try my best and perform. I didn't read it up in a book. It's deep down and it's part of my family trait.

It's true - ever since I was born, I've been through some tough situations. But that's what has given me the strength and the drive to succeed.

You have to have that willingness and that fight to get back in the game and get a point or a win. I don't think you can teach or learn that kind of thing.

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.

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

I am someone who always gets up again, even if there are setbacks. I have a survivor instinct. I'm not sure where it comes from, but probably from all the little things that make you into who you are.

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.