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“I've tried, at every step in life, to find a lesson. And accepting criticism with the same grace that you do the applause is something every young athlete needs to learn. ... I think it served me well to learn how to handle everything that came with the game's ups and downs. Some people call it growing another layer of skin. I just call it growing up.”

“Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.”

“I have a Ph.D. in philosophy and sports science. At 14, I went through this really tough Soviet training system. A lot of my roommates got psychologically broken or physically injured. Either you came through, or you were out. I made my Ph.D. work in the field of young athletes aged 14-19 because at this age any human is changing.”

“Age is no barrier. It's a limitation you put on your mind.”

“[Some young athletes] get home, look at social media, and they have thousands of people ripping it out of them, telling them that they're terrible at their profession, they hope they lose their next match or fight.It's hugely negative and unless you can rise above it and pay no attention, it can have a very serious impact on that person's state of mind.”

“I've learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.”

“The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.”

“It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.”

“Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.”

“Push yourself again and again. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.”

“If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat.”

“Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.”

“What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose.”

“An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head.”

“Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.”

“It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.”

“The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before.”

“Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time.”

“To uncover your true potential you must first find your own limits and then you have to have the courage to blow past them.”

“It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters.”

“The principle is competing against yourself.”

“You're never a loser until you quit trying.”

“My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.”