Peggy Fleming Quotes

I love going to the ring hurt or sick or tired and trying to figure out how to win anyway.

Tough times don't last, tough people do, remember?

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Everybody has to deal with tough times. A gold medal doesn't make you immune to that. A skater is used to falling down and getting up again.

I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.

You can't let injuries dictate the outcome of a football game. You have to persevere and keep fighting. That is how we are. If there is a blade of grass to defend or take, we do it.

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.

I've been in situations in my career where I've had slumps and struggles. I always stick with it and just keep working.

I have been knocked down so many times, as a player and as a person, and I have had the strength, I suppose that has come from my parents, to be able to pick myself each and every single time and go out there in the face of adversity and try my best and perform. I didn't read it up in a book. It's deep down and it's part of my family trait.

At various points, in big ways and small, we get knocked down. If we stay down, grit loses. If we get up, grit prevails.

It's not how hard you hit. It's how hard you get hit... and keep moving forward.

I have a different kind of experience than other girls had. I've had to face a lot of different styles and adjust to them. I had to face a lot of bad situations and come back. I've had to fight with my eyes swollen shut and my nose broken and bloody.

When you gotta go through something tough, I've always been a guy that just wants to get it out of the way.

That's one thing you learn in sports. You don't give up; you fight to the finish.

A true champion will fight through anything.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

The young must be prepared to experience innumerable disappointments and yet not fail.

It takes a lot of energy and creativity to make such screwed up lives carry on. And the kind of will people have to survive, year after year, dealing with that stuff, is weirdly impressive.

Pitchers did me a favor when they knocked me down. It made me more determined. I wouldn't let that pitcher get me out. They say you can't hit if you're on your back, but I didn't hit on my back. I got up.

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.

There's moments where I want to break down and cry, but not give up.

The road to perseverance lies by doubt.

Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.

I've been knocked down a lot of times.