Charles Oakley Quotes

Sometimes my body is aching, but I always think, 'Why am I in this? Why do I love it so much?' That's what makes me persevere, that's what makes me keep on going.

The only rule I got is if you slide, get up.

They've pushed me down a big ravine, but I'll get back up to the top.

Every time I get an injury or suffer from a personal setback, that's exactly what I do: I persevere.

I've fought injured so many times for so many years.

When you are going through hell, don't stop.

Never give up: There are certain times that you think, 'OK, you have beaten me down to my knees. And now the challenge is, I am on my knees and you keep on beating me down. And the question is, are you going to keep beating me all the way to the ground or will I find a way to struggle my way back on to my feet.'

When the last dime is gone, I'll sit on the curb outside with a pencil and a ten cent notebook and start the whole thing over again.

It's so hard to get up again—although of course the harder it is the more satisfaction you have when you do get up, haven't you?

No one is beat till he quits, no one is through till he stops. No matter how hard failure hits, no matter how often he drops, a fellow's not down till he lies in the dust and refuses to rise.

If he goes down, he is to get up, and continue to fight, until I finish the process.

It's incredibly touching when someone who seems so hopeless finds a few inches of light to stand in and makes everything work as well as possible. All of us lurch and fall, sit in the dirt, are helped to our feet, keep moving, feel like idiots, lose our balance, gain it, help others get back on their feet, and keep going.

The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

Wishin' was dyin' but I gotta make it all this way to that bed on these feet.

Things come and go - there's win, losses, and injuries, but you get back on the horse - but I appreciate what I've done more.

You are going to get knocked down, but you don't lie there. You get up and face the challenge.

At some points, hope was the only thing I had. When I began my journey toward walking again, I clung to hope like a life raft.

When I had an accident in 2006, no one believed that I will return to the ground, but I did.

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

I'm going to fight until my body says otherwise.

The early days were really difficult because it was constant no's, I didn't have an agent. I always knew that I had something to offer, but it just felt like I could never get someone to give me a chance.

Just because you get punched in the nose doesn't mean that you throw in the towel.

You need to put your head down and... try not to lose hope.

I lost as amateur, I lost a bunch of times as a wrestler, and you always come back.

Even when I was injured, I was always working hard.