perseverance Quotes

I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'

My trainer don't tell me nothing between rounds. I don't allow him to. I fight the fight. All I want to know is did I win the round. It's too late for advice.

I've made my share of mistakes along the way, but if I have changed even one life for the better, I haven't lived in vain.

The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.

I never thought of losing, but now that it' s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

If you lose a big fight, it will worry you all of your life. It will plague you - until you get your revenge.

I calculate that I took 20,000 punches, but I earned millions and kept a lot of it. I may talk slow, but my mind is OK.

No one knows what to say in the loser's locker room.

Joe Frazier got hit more than me - and he doesn't have Parkinson's.