Ryan Howard Quotes

Sometimes when the going gets tough, people give up.

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.

You have to learn how to fight through when it sucks and it's really hard.

I work really hard, and have had many opportunities to give up and throw the towel in. But I never did.

Sometimes, when things aren't coming easy, you've got to fight through that.

Instead of staying strong and working through when times are really tough, I usually quit this recipe for failure and start a whole new recipe. So if something is too challenging, I tend to chalk it up as not a good fit, and move on to something else.

I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.

If I would have listened to other people back in 2000 telling me I should have stopped playing basketball because of a kidney disease, I wouldn't have won a world championship.

I've been knocked down a lot of times.

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

There's moments where things are harder than others, and there are obviously questions, but when it comes down to it, there is no quit in me.

In life, you always have to keep fighting. It's not easy.

Every time I get an injury or suffer from a personal setback, that's exactly what I do: I persevere.

I've been in situations in my career where I've had slumps and struggles. I always stick with it and just keep working.

The way that I've been raised and the things I've had to do has given me grit that is unmatchable unless you were beside me.

It's the essence of sport to be able to swallow tough things up.

You can't give up in life. You just can't do it, no matter what it is that is going on.

I've had to be tough my whole life.

I need to show my son that when things get hard and rough - not if, when - you have to keep going; you have to move forward.

At various points, in big ways and small, we get knocked down. If we stay down, grit loses. If we get up, grit prevails.

I've certainly had periods when I felt like life was winning and I was losing, so I think everybody can relate to that quandary - the temptation to give in, to give up, and then what It takes to keep going.

The road is hard, and you have to get accustomed to it.

When you gotta go through something tough, I've always been a guy that just wants to get it out of the way.

I don't think the dreams die - I think that people give up. I think it gets too hard.

Whatever you're going through in your life, don't ever give up.