Jose Aldo Quotes

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

When I was about 15, I learnt that training hard doesn't get easier, you just learn to push harder. That's a powerful mentality to master.

Training should be tough, it should challenge you, because that's how you improve.

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.

Sometimes women get devastated by failing. Athletes don't; they just know that means they've got to practise harder, and they've got to do something else differently.

One of the most important things that teachers teach students is you, you can work harder. You are mentally tougher than you think.

A lot of things we're supposed to do are hard to do, but we can do them. They're always beneficial. Really, some things that are hard are beneficial.

When you fail you learn from the mistakes you made and it motivates you to work even harder.

I need to learn how to face challenges.

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

To be a champion, I think you have to see the big picture. It's not about winning and losing; it's about every day hard work and about thriving on a challenge. It's about embracing the pain that you'll experience at the end of a race and not being afraid. I think people think too hard and get afraid of a certain challenge.

Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.

It frustrates me if I'm not good at something, so I do it until I get good at it.

The truth is that throughout my careers in both chess and the martial arts, I often knew that my rivals were more naturally gifted than me - either with their mental machines or their bodies. But I have believed in my training, my approach to learning, and my ability to rise to the challenge under pressure.

I know that I'm going to have to work hard, keep working hard, and not because of this victory think, 'I'm back.' I don't think like that. I'll definitely work hard. Things are not going to be easy. I might lose first round next week. You never know.

When people tell me I can't do something, that's what excites me. It makes me perform better.

That was my way of getting through difficult times of low confidence - hard work.

Mental toughness is a lifestyle. It's something that you live every single day of your life. When I was growing up, I was a lazy kid. I was a lazy kid, and everybody goes, 'How did you get to where you're at today? How did you get to where you're running 200 miles at one time in 39 hours? Being so disciplined?'

The hardest part sometimes is when you don't get the reps and you continue to push yourself to learn and understand what's really going on.

Any time you're banged up, your body hurts, you don't really feel like going to the gym. That's when I feel like you really have to push through it. That's when you really make the leaps and bounds in your game. So, pushing through those days is never easy, but that's what gets you good.

Always it's like big challenge for me. Every point is a big challenge. So I do everything I can.

Losing will make me a better fighter.

I felt, and it may sound a bit stupid, that I want to try things that are hard.

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.

My mentality is still the same. I have to continue to get better.