Quotes About Resilience

Whether it's his beloved game of polo or his magical success in business, Norman Brinker simply does not know how to lose.

You see a lot of us lingering around. We'll just stand there on the edge of the pool and kinda psych ourselves up into getting in.

The press pool was taking bets on how many months I would last. There was nobody in the state who thought I had any shot at being a good senator.

I would say, if you come out, they can't take away how you play football. That was the thing for me: once I did come out, it's not going to affect my diving. I can still perform, no matter what anybody else thinks of me. I'm judged for what I do in the diving pool.

International cricket and Test cricket in particular is hard and you are going to get injuries but, if you've got a strong pool of players to pick from who can all come in and do a job, well that can only be a good thing for English cricket.

I do track, I run football fields, I run hills. I run until you feel like you can't run any more. I do the pool, I do anything that takes my body to the limit.

It's such a Bore Being always Poor.

I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then.

My family were really poor.

My dad left when I was a little boy and I grew up with my mother's family. There were foundations in the U.S. where Jewish people got together and sent money to Cuba, so we got some of that. We were a poor family, but I was always a happy kid.

Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.

I didn't have the easiest time growing up; it's no secret. We were just poor.

I did grow up poor. My mom managed to get a job as a custodian at our church, and it was really just a favor for her, and my dad's an electrician - just a blue-collar family, and the house was usually falling apart.

I've been to those places where it's 'poor, pitiful me.'

When I was a kid in Houston, we were so poor we couldn't afford the last 2 letters, so we called ourselves po'.

I grew up in the hood in Miami in a poor neighborhood.

Nobody wants to make me a rich man. In fact, most people want to make me a very poor man. I can guarantee some people fantasize at night about how poor they can make me.

I was one of the poorest people in America.

Well when I was young, actually not just me, but we were all poor. Korea used to be one of the poorest countries in the world. Despite such circumstances, I was very, very fortunate to be blessed with having parents who always instilled in a spirit of can-do spirit.

I come from one of the poorest countries in the world, and Cameroon is also one of the most beautiful countries in the world.

From one week to the next, everything changes from who you're playing to the defense's scheme. You just try to build on the things that you did well and correct the things that you did poorly in the game; then, move forward from there and hopefully continue to get better and better and better as you move forward.

There are few performers who would have had the audacity to even bring up the fact that they had been poorly reviewed.

The third game of my career, we played Kansas City and I played as poorly as I've ever played in my life. I completed one of 15 passes and had two interceptions.

There's been so many stories throughout the league where teams have started off poorly and ended up in the Finals. Or teams starting out great and not making the playoffs.