Kane Quotes

Every game is mentally and physically tough but we get through it and it makes you stronger.

I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.

Looking back now, I realise that belonging to the family of a labourer actually helped to prepare my body for boxing. There were many times when my family didn't have enough food or warm clothing to go around. All this made me physically, as well as emotionally, tough.

I had me jaw broken, and so my chin stuck way out. That's how I became tough - I learned to pick up anything and fight back.

Where I come from, being a hard man is being able to take a good beating and then get back up again and carry on fighting.

Teams are going to try to hit me because they think I can't take a hit. I think I've proven over my career that I can.

Because I don't look like I'm skating around as hard as Bobby Bassen doesn't mean my mind isn't working twice as hard as Bobby's mind. Just because I can't fight like Kelly Chase doesn't mean standing in front of the net getting cross-checked and slashed isn't toughness as well.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

Human beings of today are more fragile, whereas people born in wartime, during the Second World War, eventually became the great players like Pele. They were fantastic players.

There's going to be good things that get you, and there's going to be bad things that get you, so you better be willing, and your skin better be thick.

Life is, and should be, a little hard. Getting punched in the face or getting an occasional concussion will probably happen to us all at some point in our lives. We can handle it.

You've got to be able to hang in there in some uncomfortable pockets and uncomfortable situations, where you're going to take a hit and deliver the football.

We've had to develop a super-thick skin. We've been beaten up more than any band in history.

I enjoy the pain my body goes through. If you're in a hard moment in a fight, there's a lot of things go through your mind. But the most important thing to me is family.

As much as I disliked it, my brothers used to whoop me every day, but I have a feeling that I'm probably a stronger man today because of it.

You have to be able to take a punch. A strong neck is really important.

I look at the opportunity to play football as a blessing and I think what doesn't kill you certainly makes you stronger.

You need bad times to become a better and strong player.

When you grow up hard, when you grow up surviving, unfortunately, it helps.

I'm familiar with adversity.

Sometimes in this game, you get punched in the face. And you've got to be able to take it and learn from it.

I heal pretty well and I know if I crash on the first day of the Tour de France, I've got to get up and get on with it.

I've been battle-tested inside the ring and outside the ring.

The quick knockouts are nice, but going through a war now and again is a good experience to know I've done it.

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger, everybody knows this!