Larry Holmes Quotes

I just tried not to just quit. Because sometimes I did have a tendency to think that I would never be back I would never be wearing an NBA logo.

I wanted to look like Mike Tyson. But then I started to realize, in a twelve round fight, you must be patient.

Fight one more round. When your arms are so tired that you can hardly lift your hands to come on guard, fight one more round. When your nose is bleeding and your eyes are black and you are so tired that you wish your opponent would crack you one on the jaw and put you to sleep, fight one more round - remembering that the man who always fights one more round is never whipped.

You can't lose confidence in yourself, or you've lost already. When you get knocked down, you've got to keep getting back up.

Actually, ambition won't get you that far. You'll shift gears. You'll see something that's shinier. But if you believe... then you're the long-distance runner.

For me, it always goes back to something I learned in basketball. There's winning and there's losing, and in life you have to know they both will happen. But what's never been acceptable to me is quitting.

You tell everyone or anyone that has ever doubted, thought they didn't measure up or wanted to quit - look up get up and don't ever give up.

The fight isn't over until you win it, Fitz. That's all you have to remember. No matter what the other man says.

I have always believed that you win fights round by round.

When I step in the ring, I bring everything I have.

I just keep fighting and try to be the last one standing.

I think what endurance sports teach you is to stay dedicated, stay focused, and also to understand you're going to have ups and downs, but you need to keep running right through them.

I threw my best to every hitter I faced, and I found I had the strength to go all the way.

I am always nervous before the start of a race. It helps me to say to myself to try my very best. That is my commitment. No matter how bad it gets, I will try my hardest.

We just kept hanging in and fighting.

My natural abilities weren't necessarily brute power and strength. They were more about the ability to endure and not give up.

I envision Hollywood as a race, and some people simply drop off before their turn comes around. It's all about stamina - your ability to get back up and keep going even though everything is pointing at the odds not being in your favor.

There's moments where things are harder than others, and there are obviously questions, but when it comes down to it, there is no quit in me.

There were nights I was at home crying, thinking I'd never make it. I'd get up the next day and go to the audition, do my best, and try my hardest.

If the going gets tough, you stay in there and take your beating like a man. That's what we sign up for, and that's all I meant when I said my corner don't throw in towels.

I don't want to leave the field for a little thing. I try to be ready every day.

I never think about the knockouts. I go into every fight, do my work, and none of that stuff puts pressure on me at all.

I'm just going to do what I always do: train. And when it's time to fight, I go fight.

You just have to keep grinding.

When the morning's freshness has been replaced by the weariness of midday, when the leg muscles give under the strain, the climb seems endless, and suddenly nothing will go quite as you wish it is then that you must not hesitate.