Get knocked down seven times, get up eight.
"Do you really think that's air you're breathing?"  - Morpheus
..I'll fight for every inch I take, I'm desperate to the bone.

..Be the hunter and the hunted. Keep your target in your sights. Don't be sidetracked or shunted. Let pretenders feel your bite.
And if you start to slide, never show you're weak.
Don't feel you've got to hide. Remember what you're fighting  for, remember what you seek.

..Expect no sympathy. There's none to be had. Open your eyes and see, there's no room for the wannabes the has-beens or the bad.

Stay hungry, feel the fire.
Stay hungry, don't explode.
Stay hungry with desire.
Stay hungry, you're alone.





It's not the size of the dog in the fight. It's the size of the fight in the dog.
It's ain't how many times you get knocked down that matters. It's how many times you get back up.
The older I get, the better I was.
"I am a great believer in luck. I also find that the harder I work, the more of it I have." T. Jefferson
Fortune favors the bold.
As you grow old you will regret the things you did not do, not the things you did.
"Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing. Winning is not a sometime thing, it's an all time thing. You don't win once in a while. You don't do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing."  - Vince Lombardi
"Most games are lost, not won."- MJ
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
"The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination" - Tommy Lasorda
Winners never quit and quitters never win.
A ship in the harbor is safe, but that's not what ships were built for.
Winning isn't everything, wanting to is.
Who stops getting better, stops being good.
"You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them."  - Michael Jordan
"Sometimes you've just got to roll the dice."  -M. Cauthon
Whenever you stop to rest, know that wherever he is, whoever he is, your opponent is still going.
"Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm" Winston Churchill
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There is no teacher but the enemy.
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If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost. - Zig Ziglar