Robbie Keane Quotes

It's no better feeling than coming into a game being the underdog, and everybody going around telling you you can't win, and people say we going to lose by this much and that much.

The England team is a team that never, ever stops.

All my career I have been a pressure fighter. I know no other way to fight.

I always try to find something where I feel like I'm kind of the underdog and kind of put that little chip on my shoulder.

Nothing is impossible in this world. Firm determination, it is said, can move heaven and earth. Things appear far beyond one's power, because one cannot set his heart on any arduous project due to want of strong will.

I'm going to go down swinging... I'm sure as heck not going to go home and say I had a bad tournament.

In my career quite a few people have tried to force me out, but so far no one has succeeded.

Hewitt is such a fighter on the court; he never gives up. They all have qualities to beat him.

Somebody may beat me, but they are going to have to bleed to do it.

If they can beat me, fine. But I'm not leaving until they beat me.

We just play, man. We go out there and we fight no matter the situation.

My whole career's been an underdog's.

I'm always going to play with chips on my shoulder - with something to prove.

I'm always the underdog, and I go in there and win the fights.

I have been a fighter all my life.

We live in a culture that celebrates determination and hard work, but understand, these are the qualities that keep you in the game after most everybody else has left - or until somebody bigger and stronger picks you up and hurls you back out to sea.

My dad always taught me never to give up in my mind. You can never really beat me. It sounds ridiculous, but I will always come back for you. You can't beat someone who never gives up. I could lose 100 times to you, but I will always get you. I will die trying. This applies not only to swimming but to my life as well.

I am not a super-talented guy, I'm just a dude who will fight you tooth and nail.

We shall play every game to the hilt with every ounce of fiber we have in our bodies.

If I go down, it's never easy. At least my opponent knows they have to go to the end of the earth to take me out no matter what the circumstances. I do try to compete. Even if it's not your best day, I just try to walk off the court knowing I gave 100,000 percent.

The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.

A fighter can always recover, and you never know what they're going to come back with.

It is such a cut throat industry where you get knocked down so much and get rejected so much. If you do not back yourself up, no one else is going to so you really need to learn to get up, shake the sand off your chest and keep going.

A true champion will fight through anything.

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.