Cat Zingano Quotes

People see it [boxing] as a physical contact sport, but it's not. It's really a spiritual one of will against will. Who wants it the most? How much is he willing to take - and dish out - to get it? It's like fighting is 10 percent physical and 90 percent emotional.

But I still think it's mind over matter in the sense that if you're strong, you can combat anything.

When the body doesn't want to go on, the mind continues to fight.

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.

I don't have stamina in exercise... but I have it in life.

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above it.

A lot of things I've done in my life have taken incredible mental fortitude.

Battles are won in the hearts of men.

I think just that dog inside of you. When things suck, just to still fight.

The mental is more important than the physical. You know, that voice in your head telling you to give up if it gets tough. That's my main opponent - making sure that if your body wants to stop, your mind won't let you.

I'm a sportsman. I am used to failures, and bouncing back from them.

You need to have that killer instinct. It can't be taught. Where does it come from? A couple slaps. A couple things you had denied to you.

There's no magic to running far or climbing Everest. Endurance is mental strength. It's all about heart.

...as man under pressure tends to give in to physical and intellectual weakness, only great strength of will can lead to the objective.

Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.

Sometimes to go forward you've got to go to the depths of your own personal despair and claw yourself back. From that point, no matter what happens, you know you can do it.

We all survive more than we think we can.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

I have the strength to endure it all.

A comeback in gymnastics is almost impossible in itself.

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.

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them: 'Hold on!'

As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Strength is leading when you just don't want to lead.

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.