Dan Gable Quotes

We all would like to struggle like Tiger is struggling.

You're going through college, and you're going to be faced with a lot of things. You're going to face adversity, the main thing is don't quit. For many people it's easy to quit, but don't. That's what separates the winners from the losers, what separates the all-stars from the also-rans.

Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but, most of all, endurance.

Anyone can quit, but it takes a strong, committed person not to quit when times are tough.

I do not lose; I just do not get decisions sometimes. You lose when you quit. I have never quit. When it comes down to a decision, judges make a decision as to which fighter they want to win the fight. I have always been able to survive no matter whom they decide to give the fight to.

Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.

Push yourself again and again. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.

With anything you do in life, there are days where you're worn out and you don't want to do it for a second.

I think what endurance sports teach you is to stay dedicated, stay focused, and also to understand you're going to have ups and downs, but you need to keep running right through them.

I ran and ran and ran every day, and I acquired this sense of determination, this sense of spirit that I would never, never give up, no matter what else happened.

You might not feel good, and you might not want to practice, but you still go out there and practice as hard as you can.

A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more.

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.

It is the combination of reasonable talent and the ability to keep going in the face of defeat that leads to success.

As long as we persevere and endure, we can get anything we want.

If you bleed Black Label and you're going to be a man, you gotta get up there and do what you gotta do every day, relentless and as tired as you can be.

Acting is a hard profession. More than anything, it takes fortitude.

The key to anyone's success is staying with it!

If you want to be the best, you can't take the path of least resistance. Every morning, you wake up, and your mind tells you it's too early, and your body tells you you're a little too sore, but you've got to look deep within yourself and know what you want and what you're striving for.

I can't tell you how many times I hit that mat, especially that first year, where I said to myself, 'Man, this fake stuff hurts like hell. Do I really want to do this?' And every time, I would come back, 'Yeah, I wanna do this.'

You just have to keep grinding.

Be a warhorse for work and enjoy even the struggle against defeat.

I'd made it this far and refused to give up because all my life I had always finished the race.

I have a real worker-bee mentality. Just show up, just do it. Even if you feel like s--t and you think you're terrible and you'll never get better and it will never go anywhere, just show up and do it. And, eventually, something happens.

Success comes from doing the hard part. When the hard part is all you've got, you're more likely to do it. And this is precisely why it's difficult to focus. Because focusing means acknowledging that you just signed up for the hard part.