Mark Hunt Quotes

You learn a lot about yourself when things aren't going well. It's always good to be the underdog.

In life when you get tested, when you get rejected by everyone and when you get pushed aside, you actually get the best out of it. That has been a learning curve for me.

To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.

As athletes, we're defined by what we've accomplished. Those are what most people remember and what you get paid for. But I learned more from my failures than from all of my successes put together - failures as an athlete and as a person.

Any personal crisis - you have to use it to get stronger.

Deliverance is about what I went through the first time. And I chalk it up as a learning experience.

Intelligent people should learn from their experiences. With people on the street, the bad experience has beaten them.

If you're going to go through hell... I suggest you come back learning something.

I'm pretty easily overwhelmed and pretty tough as well. I think I'm tougher than I used to be. There's been a lot of hardship along the way. But that's what life is. And it's how you deal with those things, and how you let them shape you that makes you a better person and defines what sort of person you're going to be.

We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.

It's good to have a bad season because you learn a lot about yourself; you become stronger, and you see where you have to improve.

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?

It's all the stuff I've been through in my life. From family struggles, people doubting me, things I went through as a child and going to prison, they all played a factor in who I am today. It really made me a better person. Going through those situations can make or break you as a human being.

When you lose, you learn a lot about yourself. That experience is important.

I think without struggle, you can't grow as a person - I think you need that in your life.

I think each fight is a challenge for me.

Every day's a challenge. You learn every single day.

I went through a lot, but as I went through it, I learned from the situations.

Struggle is the best teacher.

When you are being bullied a long way from home, when you face that challenge, that is where you find out a lot about yourself.

The toughest opponent is me. A lot of times, you don't want to train. You don't want to box. Sometimes, life hits you to the point where you don't even want to live. You have to fight with that person. You have to make yourself wake up in the morning. You have to make yourself watch your weight. That's how I fight with that person.

I had to do so much self-searching and self-work and learning how to navigate in a world that seemed very mean.

My own father had always said the measure of a man wasn't how many times or how hard he got knocked down, but how fast he got back up. I made a pledge to myself that I would get up and emerge from this debacle better for having gone through it. I would live up to the expectation I had for myself. I would be the kind of man I wanted to be.

The important thing is to firmly fix our gaze on our own weaknesses, not run away from them, but to battle them head-on and establish a solid self that nothing can sway. Hardships forge and polish our lives, so that eventually they shine with brilliant fortune and benefit. If left in its raw, unpolished form, even the most magnificent gem will not sparkle. The same applies to our lives.

Embrace struggle... It is your greatest teacher.