Ralph Peters Quotes

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

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.

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

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

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

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

I have been the struggler of the century. Fortunately, everyone loves the underdog.

My character is 'Get up and keep fighting,' unless I've been nailed to the ground.

I know exactly what it is like to fight against the odds and to overcome adversity.

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.

I've always believed in survival.

It is a struggle. But I don't mind. I will just keep fighting on.

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.

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.

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

Some people with awful cards can be successful because of how they deal with the tragedies they're handed, and that seems courageous to me.

I like struggle.

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.

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.

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

I identified in a very deep way with the individuals I was writing about because the theme that runs through this story is of extraordinary hardship and the will to overcome it.

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

I am determined to go through the horror of this world.

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