Words to inspire… from boxers
A champion is someone who gets up when he can't.
Jack Dempsey
Boxing is the ultimate challenge. There's nothing that can compare to testing yourself the way you do every time you step in the ring.
Sugar Ray Leonard
A champion shows who he is by what he does when he's tested. When a person gets up and says 'I can still do it', he's a champion.
Evander Holyfield
If they cut my bald head open, they will find one big boxing glove. That's all I am. I live it.
Marvin Hagler
Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have last-minute stamina, they have to be a little faster, they have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.
Muhammad Ali
I'm scared every time I go into the ring, but it's how you handle it. What you have to do is plant your feet, bite down on your mouthpiece and say, 'Let's go.'
Mike Tyson
And a few non boxing ones…
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?
Robert Browning, Poet
Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do.
Robert Browning, Poet
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’
From ‘If’ by Rudyard Kipling, Author and Poet
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