Mrunal Thakur Quotes

I want to thank my mom, Brenda Rose. My heart, the reason I play the way I play, just everything. Just knowing the days I don't feel right, going to practice, having a hard time, I think about her when she had to wake me up, go to work and make sure I was all right. Those were hard days.

Of course, there are days when you're not feeling your best and you still have to stand up there and it can be difficult. But those days pass and you move on.

My best career decision was probably not giving up when I wanted to. God as well as my family and friends were there for me during my toughest times.

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.

Every season will have its dips and hard moments, and the challenge then is to make sure you don't get too down in those moments and make sure you come back fighting.

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

I'm interested in that thing that happens where there's a breaking point for some people and not for others. You go through such hardship, things that are almost impossibly difficult, and there's no sign that it's going to get any better, and that's the point when people quit. But some don't.

Going through SEAL training taught me that it's OK to fall down three times, as long as you get up four. This is a good philosophy for most things in life.

I thought about giving up the sport, but I have a lot of good people around me: my wife, Nina, my family. Everybody keeps helping me to be positive and moving forward.

Tough times don't last. Tough people do. I preach that, and I guess you have to live to it.

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.

Being down 3-1 [in the Finals] was the worst feeling I've ever experienced in my life. I didn't want to talk to my teammates, I didn't want to talk to my wife, I didn't want to talk to my kids. And to come back from that is a lesson that you can come back from anything.

It is amazing how much we can endure when we are convinced there is a purpose to our struggle.

We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up or fight like hell.

Those who successfully go through tough times do so because they keep insisting.

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.

I fell so many times and got back up. I been through the toughest times with my family, but I’m still standing.

You can't lose confidence in yourself, or you've lost already. When you get knocked down, you've got to keep getting back up.

If they hadn’t tried to break me down, I wouldn’t know that I’m unbreakable.

If you give up at the first sign of struggle, you're really not ready to be successful.

Make friends with pain, and you will never be alone.~Ken Chlouber, Colorado miner and creator of the Leadville Trail 100 mile race

Sometimes when we get our ass kicked and we're down, sometimes we stay down, and sometimes we get depressed and sometimes we don't know how to handle it, and sometimes we don't know what's going on, and sometimes we feel like it's not worth going on.

You know, once I was thinking of quitting when I was diagnosed with brain, lung and testicular cancer all at the same time. But with the love and support of my friends and family, I got back on the bike and won the Tour de France five times in a row. But I'm sure you have a good reason to quit.