Matt Cassel Quotes

It's tough, trying to get better.

Over the course of six amateur fights and two professional fights I learned a lot about how to get things done, how to pick myself up after disappointment, how to work through frustration and how to process moments of success.

Struggle is the best teacher.

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

It took 10 months for me to learn to tie a lace; I must have howled with rage and frustration. But one day I could tie my laces. That no one can take from you. I profoundly distrust the pedagogy of ease.

I've had a normal life, but I have struggled to get here. It hasn't been handed to me and it hasn't been easy.

Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.

All the things you do, even the shows that don't work, are as much work, but you learn more from the things that are difficult.

Fighting taught me, I learned from life. It's a school, I'm still learning.

You learn a lot about yourself when things aren't going well. It's always good to be the underdog.

Always it's like big challenge for me. Every point is a big challenge. So I do everything I can.

If you get beaten, and you know that you tried your hardest and kept your focus, then that's all you can do.

Nothing in this world is a gift. Whatever must be learned must be learned the hard way.

There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.

Don't be afraid to fail. For the love of God, don't be afraid to fail, because you're going to fail. So try to fail as hard as you can is what I would say, because you're always going to get up and you're going to learn something from it.

I'll always use the negativity as more motivation to work even harder and become even stronger.

When you fail you learn from the mistakes you made and it motivates you to work even harder.

It's a kind of philosophy of my own life, to create the energy enough to keep on going.

You can make it if you try, push a little harder, think a little deeper.

Nobody's going to give you everything on a silver tray. It's going to be difficult.

Every day, you have to prove yourself and convince - move forward and challenge yourself. And doubt all the time.

The most challenging project I've ever done, I think, is every single thing I've ever tried to do. It's never easy.

To be challenged means to strive. I'm almost certain that's true.

All of us, in a sense, struggle continuously all the time, because we never get what we want. The important thing which I've really learned is how do you not give up, because you never succeed in the first attempt.

If you stop struggling, then you stop life.