Reinhold Messner Quotes

I need to learn how to face challenges.

This sport has given me so much. It has taught me to be strong emotionally and physically.

It's so valuable to learn that when you put yourself in an uncomfortable situation, you'll be fine, and you'll probably come out even stronger.

I've learned to ignore the negative people and just be a living example of confidence and self-love.

People are gonna like who they like, there's nothing you can do about it. Just go out there, do what you do best, play your game and try to become a better person on and off the court.

Surviving a failure gives you more self-confidence. Failures are great learning tools - but they must be kept to a minimum.

Your sensitivity is power. Don't let people transform your qualities into weaknesses.

I'm always going to be confident in myself.

You have to go out there and focus on yourself and not who you are up against.

I believe the tough fights bring out the better fighter in myself.

To know you're truly alive in wrestling, you have to constantly challenge yourself. You constantly have to do things that you're unsure you can do.

Man, I got to say I love my haters because they challenge myself... it challenges me. It challenges me to be better. It challenges me to show who I am and that I deserve to be who I am.

Nothing makes you try harder than to be told that you are not good enough or that you simply do not have the skills.

I try to push myself a little every day. For me, it's doing 10 more seconds of whatever I'm working on. So if I'm on the treadmill sprinting my butt off or doing a grueling core workout, I think to myself, 'You can do 10 more seconds, and you'll be that much mentally stronger.' After a while, those 10 seconds add up!

I just control what I can control. Getting better every time I step onto the floor.

People can say what they want, but at the end of the day, I'm going to keep working on my game. I always know I have things to work on.

I didn't care what people thought of me, that I was getting better, pushing myself to get better. Those are the things I concentrate on. I don't concentrate on what everyone else was saying.

It's a very unique feeling - to be that strong and unbreakable. But I'm working towards it.

Really, I think the biggest thing is just playing your game and doing what you do.

When you have bad moments, you have to improve. You have to become stronger to deal with it, and I believe I have become stronger.

I just kind of try to go out and focus on what I've got to do to get myself better.

You never let what someone says bring you down. If you do that, you'd be a chump in this world.

I don't need to be told what I am or what I should do or if I beat this guy it means I'm good or if I lose to that guy it means I'm bad. I'm at peace with myself, and I know what I do every day in my training will speak for itself, and success will be a byproduct.

Am I ever gonna grow thick skin? No.

Fear doesn't enter into my vocabulary. Fear is the gateway to the next step in my development.