“Conditioning is the greatest hold.” -Karl Gotch

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.” -Mark Twain
“If you train hard, you’ll not only be hard, you’ll be hard to beat.” -Herschel Walker
“We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.” -Jim Rohn
“Show me a guy who’s afraid to look bad, and I’ll show you a guy you can beat every time.” -Lou Brock
“To measure the man, measure his heart.” -Malcolm Stevenson Forbes

“Look around the table. If you don’t see a sucker, get up, because you’re the sucker.” -Amarillo Slim
“I grew up on a farm and I always learned when you work you go forward, you don’t stop and say, well, I’ll take a break. You always go forward and get the job done.” -Rulon Gardner

“It’s a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don’t quit when you’re tired–you quit when the gorilla is tired.”  -Robert Strauss

“It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe.” -Muhammad Ali

“The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses—behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.” -Muhammad Ali
“Fatigue makes cowards of all men”  -Unknown

“Spirit…has fifty times the strength and staying power of brawn and muscle.” -Unknown