France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
I don't want to tell sad stories about myself. We may not have had a lot to spend when I grew up, but my childhood was good. The public likes to hear a dramatic story. They want a star to rise, have a meltdown and then return to greatness. Very American.
I have seen a lots of ups and downs in my career and one can always bounce back.
You take a crash, you get back up and next time you succeed and that's a great feeling.
250,000 people turned up in Dublin to cheer me on an open-topped bus along O'Connell St after my world title winning fight in 1985. I'll never forget the sea of smiling faces that greeted me that day.
When Grant Hill came back to Orlando after having all of his surgeries, I was the first person to call him and congratulate him for making it back. It seemed like nobody cared about what I was dealing with.
New York is a passionate city. They want a winner. They deserve a winner. I think we did an outstanding job of bringing it back.
I've had more comebacks than Frank Sinatra.
I will return and I will be a million.
I trusted in God to return to football. I have worked very hard every day to achieve it, and thank God, my work paid off, being able to come back normally, scoring goals.
When you come back on top after you've fallen, it's a better story.
The reception and the welcome home was quite overwhelming but an indication of how much the Welsh people valued my winning in the Olympics - it was a great memory.
O Captain my Captain! our fearful trip is done, / The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is won
It's always cool to make a comeback like 45 Michael Jordan did, or like Marshawn Lynch.
After I won the Olympics, like any gold medalist, I did feel some emptiness in my heart. I did think about coming back to the ice for a long time. What motivated me is skating is something I am best at and I love the most. So I want to give it one more try.
We will, in fact, be greeted as liberators.
I am dead. Only vengeance can restore me! Only victory can return my life to me!
I've been through so much damn adversity, I've had so much critiqued on me. From being the undefeated world champion to never really getting the love or the respect I feel I deserved when I was on top and then finally getting knocked down and then everybody jumping on top, trying to kick me while I was down.
Straight after the Prescott fight, people were saying, 'He's finished. He's not going to come back.' There were only racial remarks made. But, you know what, it made me stronger. It made me come back even stronger. It made me a better fighter.
People said I had no heart, I was lackadaisical, the whole nine yards. But success is the best revenge, and I'm proving all of them wrong, even Evander Holyfield.
One! two! and through and through The vorpal blade went snickersnack! He left it dead, and with its head He went galumphing back.
After my spectacular failures, I could not be satisfied with an ordinary success.
A fighter can always recover, and you never know what they're going to come back with.
From the first day I left Chelsea, it was always in my mind to make them wrong. I made them wrong.
My dad was in a hospital for months. The doctors told my dad he would never be able to walk again. My dad beat all the odds. He came back and was able to walk and start boxing again. He went to No. 1 in the world at welterweight to fight for the world title. But he never had his chance to fight for a world title.
