Quotes About Resilience

Yeah, when I had Covid all I could eat was fruit. Big bags of pears every day.

I live my life in a very peculiar way where nothing gets my goat as such. I don't look at things in a manner where they offend me. I look at things in a manner where they amuse me.

I can say that I don't see myself with the foot on the gas pedal as hard as it's been down for 16 years.

You can't take your foot off the pedal; you've got to get pucks to the next level.

In the gay world, and in drag in particular, they love to put you on a pedestal and then two minutes later rip you down.

There are so many slices to the African-American experience. I mean, I have the whole ghetto pedigree. My mom was in jail, I didn't have any money, and I didn't go to a fancy college. But that's not the type of story I want to tell or feel the need to tell on film.

There's always a little fear anytime you're doing something crazy because at any moment you can break a leg, land on your neck, or peel off the bar. Over the years, we've fallen so many times that we've kind of learned how to fall safely. Still, there is always a risk.

Caving into blather and peer pressure never bolstered anyone's argument.

I was discouraged at drama school, along with most of my peers.

As I was coming up, there was so much naysaying, there was so much doubt, whether it was from my peers or people in the industry.

That was the lowest point in my entire life: The shellshock of not being in the NBA. All my peers are playing and I'm not because of boneheaded mistakes.

Was on my last leg, I couldn't even borrow my friend's extra peg.

I couldn't write because my nervous system was so bad - I couldn't even use a pen.

One penalty miss doesn't change anything.

Sometimes you'll go up against keepers like Casillas - the 'penalty killer,' as many of us call him. Other times, there's that one defender that, for 90 minutes, just destroys you. There is one in particular who will always stand out in my mind. Nemanja Vidic.

I am not as dangerous as I used to be. I am not as effective in the penalty area any more. That is something I have lost and something I have to get back. I used to score better goals, great goals. But something strange has happened.

I'm confident in myself. It's not a case of I've missed a penalty, and I'm down.

I learned one of the very important lessons in life in the 9/11 attacks. It's good to have a plan for your future; it's even better to write your plan in pencil.

I'm still short now, but when I was 14, I was like a pencil. You had to be aggressive and hold your own.

When I got married at the peak of my career, people told me that it's over for me. But I didn't let people's opinion penetrate my mind.

I defend my goal as if it were my home. I do my best to defend it and not to allow anyone to score goals or penetrate that. It's true.

You can't train a penguin to act. You kind of have to take what you get.

I always hated the thought of not having two pennies to rub together.

Pennsylvania is a very tough state; people don't last long in Pennsylvania politics.