
“It's not how hard you hit. It's how hard you get hit…and keep moving forward.”
The Last Lecture (2008)
Source: Rocky Balboa
“It's not how hard you hit. It's how hard you get hit…and keep moving forward.”
The Last Lecture (2008)
Statement to John Hill Brinton, at the start of his Tennessee River Campaign, early 1862, as quoted in Personal Memoirs of John H. Brinton, Major and Surgeon U.S.V., 1861-1865 (1914) by John Hill Brinton, p. 239.
1860s
“Hit first! Hit hard! Keep on hitting!! (The 3 H's)”
p274 https://archive.org/stream/memoriesbyadmira00fishuoft#page/274/mode/1up
Memories (1919) https://archive.org/stream/memoriesbyadmira00fishuoft#page/n0/mode/2up
Variant: Just keep moving forward and don't give a shit about what anybody thinks. Do what you have to do, for you.
“Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want.”
From Treye Green's article "Happy 35th Birthday, Aaliyah: 15 Of The Singer's Best Quotes" (15 January 2014) http://www.ibtimes.com/happy-35th-birthday-aaliyah-15-singers-best-quotes-1542245
Attributed
29-Jun-2005, Radio Derby
I think he's covered all the angles there.
Boxing
Source: Comments From Wong Shun Leung and Tsui Shan Ting, by Ray Van Raamsdonk http://www.springtimesong.com/wcqanda.htm