Grigor Dimitrov Quotes

Every fighter has a story that could break your heart. We lose, we get hurt and everything comes apart. That's when it's so difficult to stay on the straight and narrow.

When you're out on the court, you're fighting against yourself and it can be tough.

There's moments where I want to break down and cry, but not give up.

Being knee-deep in sadness or suffering and refusing to look down - to me, that represents something more powerful than someone who's never gone through difficulty.

I have had a couple of situations where I wasn't the strongest person in the world.

I’d always enjoyed life, and I knew I would again. But I was going to have to slog through a lot of bad patches to get there

People can live through hardship, but from hard feelings they perish.

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

I surprise myself that I'm not dead in the gutter somewhere, surprised that I haven't given up.

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

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

Sometimes to go forward you've got to go to the depths of your own personal despair and claw yourself back. From that point, no matter what happens, you know you can do it.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

The only one who can beat me is me.

It's a mental battle trying to come back from injuries and I don't feel like having that mental battle with myself.

It takes a lot of energy and creativity to make such screwed up lives carry on. And the kind of will people have to survive, year after year, dealing with that stuff, is weirdly impressive.

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

Strength is leading when you just don't want to lead.

I just think that there are those people that their resolve is strengthened by what it is that's keeping them down, and there are some people that will buckle under it. You never know which one is which until you get into the eighth or ninth round of the fight.

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men!

Every once in a while I think, 'What am I doing out here running, busting myself up? Life could be so much easier. The other guys are out having fun, doing other things, why not me?'

The rivalry is with ourself. I try to be better than is possible. I fight against myself, not against the other.

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

I have self-doubt. I have insecurity. I have fear of failure. I have nights when I show up at the arena and I'm like, 'My back hurts, my feet hurt, my knees hurt. I don't have it. I just want to chill.' We all have self-doubt. You don't deny it, but you also don't capitulate to it. You embrace it.