Josh Billings Quotes

We are powerful because we have survived

I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude.

Survival can be summed up in three words - never give up. That's the heart of it really. Just keep trying.

I failed, got back up. I failed, got back up.

As an athlete, that's something I always take with me. You fall every day, whether it's in a job, or you miss something else, but you learn how to do it better next time. You learn it in sports. That's a life lesson.

I have been fascinated with survival and having to go on no matter what. That always appealed to me.

You learn more from defeats and it makes you hungry to go and improve the next time. That's the way I have dealt with things during my whole career.

No matter how long your've been at it, you always start from scratch.

Successful people fail often, and, worth noting, learn more from that failure than everyone else.

It's true that the people that succeed in life are the people that keep getting up after they fall down, but no one gets through without falling down.

Living things have been doing just that for a long, long time. Through every kind of disaster and setback and catastrophe. We are survivors.

Simply to endure is to triumph.

By perseverance the snail reached the ark. A mouse may find a hole, be the room ever so full of cats.

Hee that stumbles and falles not, mends his pace.

The only mistakes you can learn from are the ones you survive.

Surviving means being born over and over.

I'm here because they've killed almost all of us, but not all of us. And that's their mistake, son. That's the flaw in their plan. Because if you don't kill all of us at once, whoever's left are not going to be the weak ones. The strong ones- and only the strong ones- will survive. The bent but unbroken, if you know what I mean. People like me. And people like you.

Everything that I do should be wrong, but I started really young, and I just learned how to learn. I would fail, and I would figure out why that didn't go right and do it again.

As important as hustle is, grit and resilience are equally as important because there's a lot of rejection in our business.

At Norwich, I was injured, and then I went to Leicester, and I found myself on the bench. But I still used that to my advantage as an experience - I had to do that here at Spurs for a while, be on the bench and wait for my chance. It's definitely something that's helped me with my game.

Resilience can go an awful long way.

Stephen's the great survivor, isn't he? He just goes on and on.

Nobody breaks in a fight and comes back in the same fight. Once you break, you're done for the night. You've gotta go back. You've gotta shower up. You've gotta fly home. You've got to reassess, take three or four months, and try it again. But that Anderson Silva breaks in that fight, and still finds a way to win, is remarkable.

I've just kept going, like millions of people do every day, because life does not allow them to do anything else.

You should never surrender, never give up.