Adrian Younge Quotes

When you've something to fight for, you get the best out of yourself.

It doesn't matter what you're trying to accomplish. It's all a matter of discipline. I was determined to discover what life held for me beyond the inner-city streets.

One thing I've come to learn about myself is that I have to keep going.

When things don't come so naturally to you, you want to persevere, you want to keep pushing yourself to overcome obstacles that prevent you from having the kind of life that you want to have.

So you've got to test the envelope, find out what are your abilities and if you falter, pick yourself up and test it again. Otherwise, what is it all about, you know?

Believe in yourself. Push to your highest limit.

My mentality is still the same. I have to continue to get better.

I hated reading - I was not a 'good kid' - but I was determined when I put my mind to something.

When it's going tough in a session I have a little think about why I'm doing it, what I'm getting up for and why I'm putting myself through it.

I'm just going to keep pushing and try and be the best of version that I can be of me.

I still find it hard to push my own limits. I know where my limits are and that I always have to push myself.

It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.

I have a tendency to pick up my own challenges. The more difficult something it is, the more I want to try it.

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

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

A person like myself will keep challenging to see if I can keep doing it over and over again.

I actually sat down and started three Alexanders at the same time. Two of them went in the trash and got stomped on because I hated the idea so much. And the one I came up with, I got very excited by. And that's 'Alexander, Who's Trying His Best to Be the Best Boy Ever'.

I think every day you wake up, and you do the best you can do that day.

I just have to be better. There's not much else to say.

I've done all my bike circuit cardio workouts when I know I gotta push my numbers higher and I gotta be better than I was before. It sucks. Your body doesn't want to do it, but I've done that. I know I have that in me.

I'm always pushing myself.

You can look at it and say I'm doing this better or that better, but the bottom line is, I just learned to be mentally tougher.

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.

Every year, every day, every month, I am proving myself.

I've really tried everything in my power to get my life together.