Kazuchika Okada Quotes

I wasn't a kid who won every tournament I was playing, and I think that helped me - it motivated me a lot to know what it felt like not to win.

I been through some things but I worked hard to get to where I'm at.

If somebody says no to you, or if you get cut, Michael Jordan was cut his first year, but he came back and he was the best ever. That is what you have to have. The attitude that I'm going to show everybody, I'm going to work hard to get better and better.

I struggled to get through high school. I didn't get to go to college. But it made me realize you can do anything if you want to bad enough.

I strongly believe that through dedication and perseverance, one can overcome adversity to achieve success. It is a privilege to accept membership in the Horatio Alger Association, an organization which promotes this principle.

Know that even when you want to give up or throw in the towel, in the end it will all be worth the hard work.

A lot of people gave up on us, but we kept kicking and making music.

I've had to fight to improve my life. Nothing has come easily.

I've carried my chip with me my entire career. I've had to fight and claw for every position I've had. I sat on the bench as a junior in high school, I had to compete my senior year in high school to get the job. I competed again at Vanderbilt before having success.

When I was struggling to get recognition as a wrestler, I faced innumerable hardships. I even slept on the ring itself after finishing my practice. Those days, I did not have a house to live.

My character is 'Get up and keep fighting,' unless I've been nailed to the ground.

Throughout COVID, I just consistently grinded at my craft. I didn't let COVID get in the way of my goal and the goal is to be the best me that I can be for the team.

With a defeat, when you lose, you get up, you make it better, you try again. That's what I do in life, when I get down, when I get sick, I don't want to just stop. I keep going and I try to do more. Everyone always says never give up but you really have to take that to heart and really do never definitely give up. Keep trying.

I wasn't always someone who was talented. It was more that I was loud and loved a challenge.

If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.

The triumph can't be had without the struggle.

I am not driven by any bitterness by what happened in Athens. I learnt a lot of lessons from it and probably came through it a stronger person in the end. There have been a lot of near misses, and that's taught me to keep persevering and that there is a chance it can come right.

No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

There've been many a season where I couldn't get work, and I think that you learn character development and you learn how to really want what you do in life when you can't really do it.

The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.

These years of the Ecole Normale were an ordeal. Nothing was handed to me on the first try.

Every time I've failed, people had me out for the count, but I always come back.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

I experienced firsthand what it means to be poor, what it means to go hungry, and that, I think, may be the reason, the root cause of why I'm able to work so hard, even these days.