Anat Hoffman Quotes

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.

I've lived through a lifetime of crises and survived.

I have fought all my life, that is easy for me.

I didn't mind a bit of hardship.

I've been through a lot of struggles, even though I'm young.

Over the past six years I've had many difficulties. But I never lost my passion.

No matter how many obstacles that are thrown in our path, there are ways to except them and to live through them.

I've always believed in survival.

There's always been adversity, wherever I've gone.

Everybody has to deal with tough times. A gold medal doesn't make you immune to that. A skater is used to falling down and getting up again.

These years of the Ecole Normale were an ordeal. Nothing was handed to me on the first try.

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

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.

Difficult years lie ahead, patience is required.

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.

We've had some tough times, but we've hung in there.

You can't dodge them all. I got hammered plenty of times through the years. But you just get up and keep playing. I can tell you from experience, though. Sometimes it hurts like hell.

Oh, I'm a survivor. My whole life has been surviving.

The secret is not to give up hope. It's very hard not to because if you're really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side.

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 reality is I'm not a 'get knocked down and come back harder' kind of guy.

If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow.

I overcame a lot of obstacles in my life and in my childhood.

Nothing's ever easy as long as you go on living.

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.