Dan Quayle Quotes

When life seems hard, the courageous do not lie down and accept defeat; instead, they are all the more determined to struggle for a better future.

You will face many defeats in your life, but never let yourself be defeated.

I have always tried to teach my players to be fighters. When I say that, I don't mean put up your dukes and get in a fistfight over something. I'm talking about facing adversity in your life. There is not a person alive who isn't going to have some awfully bad days in their lives. I tell my players that what I mean by fighting is when your house burns down, and your wife runs off with the drummer, and you've lost your job and all the odds are against you. What are you going to do? Most people just lay down and quit. Well, I want my people to fight back.

A true champion will fight through anything.

No difficulty can discourage, no obstacle dismay, no trouble dishearten the man who has acquired the art of being alive. Difficulties are but dares of fate, obstacles but hurdles to try his skill, troubles but bitter tonics to give him strength; and he rises higher and looms greater after each encounter with adversity.

You don't win a fight by the size and the weight.

No matter where I came from, I'm a fighter.

To be honest...here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude...

When life kicks you in the teeth and knocks you down to the ground. Are you able to stand up and keep fighting?! That’s what it’s all about.

It takes a special kind of person to fight back.

Life isn't about the number of times you're knocked down, it's about the number of times you get back up.

I can't go on. I'll go on.

When people tell you you're on the brink of death, you've got to dig pretty deep to get it together.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

I just think that there are those people that their resolve is strengthened by what it is that's keeping them down, and there are some people that will buckle under it. You never know which one is which until you get into the eighth or ninth round of the fight.

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.

I feel like I'm a fighter. I've fought my whole life to get to where I'm at. I like fight movies. When someone gets knocked down, I like to root for him to succeed.

I said in my mind, 'keep fighting.'

He who voluntarily confronts tremendous odds must have very great internal resources to draw upon

Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.

We all gonna die eventually from something or other, but don't be a wimp. Put up a good fight.