Alex Zanardi Quotes

I just put all my energy into me and focusing on what I'm going to do, and I'll go in there and do that right through the end of the fight until I get the job done.

People may say I developed an iron will, but what really happened is that I made myself much fitter. I think an iron will is always supported by fitness.

When you've something to fight for, you get the best out of yourself.

I'll always use the negativity as more motivation to work even harder and become even stronger.

I constantly push my body to meet what my mind wants me to be able to do.

I'm functioning on a lung and a half, but I have proved that it's possible to challenge yourself.

I'm going to go to school. It doesn't matter what the outcome is as long as I did it. I can say I did it.

I don't think I could live with myself if I stopped trying.

I think both running and science reflect certain character traits. I have endurance, patience, and ambition. I'm willing to work hard toward a goal, to push myself and overcome limits. Running and science both let me express these traits.

The only thing that I can do - and the only thing that I've always done - is to ride my bike fast and get my head down and control the things I can control.

If you want to be the best, you can't take the path of least resistance. Every morning, you wake up, and your mind tells you it's too early, and your body tells you you're a little too sore, but you've got to look deep within yourself and know what you want and what you're striving for.

I am willing to put myself through anything; temporary pain or discomfort means nothing to me as long as I can see that the experience will take me to a new level.

I always pushed myself. Whenever I felt I needed to stop, I made myself run faster.

Wins and losses come a dime a dozen. But effort? Nobody can judge effort. Effort is between you and you. Effort ain't got nothing to do with nobody else.

True endurance, I think, comes from the inside. It comes from motivation and belief in what you're doing.

It seems like the more I punish myself, the better it's been. What it is, I'm relentless and I never give up. I never take the easy way out.

I was my own teacher and pupil, in a comradeship so firm and persevering that the most trying incidents of my life served only to strengthen the union.

But no one can lose sight of what he desires. Even if there are moments when he believes the world and the others are stronger. The secret is this: do not surrender.

Running alone is the toughest. You get to the point where you have to keep pushing yourself.

It's a kind of philosophy of my own life, to create the energy enough to keep on going.

It doesn't matter what you're trying to accomplish. It's all a matter of discipline. I was determined to discover what life held for me beyond the inner-city streets.

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!'

One thing I've come to learn about myself is that I have to keep going.

I don't care what other people say. I fight every day to be the best player I can.

You can make it if you try, push a little harder, think a little deeper.