Sophie Swetchine Quotes

It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

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

The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.

I have a different kind of experience than other girls had. I've had to face a lot of different styles and adjust to them. I had to face a lot of bad situations and come back. I've had to fight with my eyes swollen shut and my nose broken and bloody.

A champion is someone who gets up when he can't.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

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.

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

We will not be beaten. But we may be shamed and embarrassed on a needlessly long road to victory.

The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions, but nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage were born.

My mother is a survivor who's had a lot of things happen in her life that have been very trying.

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.

I'm a survivor, at least that's what everyone tells me.

I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.

I've overcome physical and mental brutality - and fought back.

The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. That's the essence of it.

Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.

Cancer didn't bring me to my knees, it brought me to my feet.

The road to perseverance lies by doubt.

They've pushed me down a big ravine, but I'll get back up to the top.

When the going gets tough, let the tough get going.

I knocked a lot of guys out from the seventh round on - so if I gave up, I would never have achieved what I did. There was no giving up. It's weak to give up. The easiest thing in the world is to quit.

I see myself as a survivor, and I'm not ashamed to say I'm a survivor. To me, survivor implies strength, implies that I have been through something and I made it out the other side.

The only way to make it through life is to fight.