Joe Calzaghe Quotes

When I started out, I struggled, and I was broke a lot. But I'm glad I struggled, and I'm glad I was broke a lot.

Success is never so interesting as struggle

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Everything that I've ever been able to accomplish in skating and in life has come out of adversity and perseverance.

My family and I had to overcome a lot to get where we are today.

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.

To the stars through thorns.

You cannot understand a man’s work by what he has accomplished but by what he has overcome in accomplishing it.

I lived below the poverty line when I was young and starting out as a writer. But my wife and I kept trying to do things better, as anyone with ambition does. But just because you're trying doesn't mean you're always going to succeed.

I've never had anything given to me. I've never had anything easy. My whole career has been that way.

You have to go through some adversity to be able to be successful.

I haven't met anybody who hasn't been able to describe years and years and years of very, very difficult struggle through the whole process of achieving anything whatsoever. And there's no way to sort of get around that.

There is no gain without struggle.

Almost anything difficult, any challenge takes time, patience, and hard work.

Nothing in life is worthwhile unless it's kind of hard to get there.

I been through some things but I worked hard to get to where I'm at.

The triumph can't be had without the struggle.

Great things come out of being hungry and cold. Once you're pampered, you get lazy.

I've learned a lot from the experiences that I went through in high school, through college and overseas, and just everything in life. That is what prepared me for coming into the NBA, being undersized, no recognition, not getting anything easy, and I have been fortunate to prosper in this league.

I'm proud of my triumphs. I've dreamed of being world champion, I've had some difficult times and they've made me value the good times.

I experienced firsthand what it means to be poor, what it means to go hungry, and that, I think, may be the reason, the root cause of why I'm able to work so hard, even these days.

I like struggle.

I've worked hard over the years, I've been injured and I've worked hard through it, and I've made it.

Easy doesn't do it.

My advice: Don't quit. When I got to New York City, I lived so far below the poverty line, because I didn't give in and get a job at 7-Eleven. I think you can thrive in misery.