Quotes About Resilience

We decided to try in vitro, because both Peter and I felt we couldn't handle another failure. When I miscarried after that, we had to come to terms with the possibility that this wasn't meant to be.

I loathe having a fragile brain and knowing as I make any plan that I should provide for the possibility that my mind may betray me at short notice.

I want to go and fight the best guys in the world and show people I'm the best. And hey, if something doesn't go my way - I don't think that's gonna happen. I realize that's a possibility in competition, and that's what happens.

Arsene Wenger gave me the possibility to bounce back.

I don't ever think in terms of losing. That's not even a possibility. I've been beaten once, and I don't ever want to experience that again.

If I had been healthy and projected in the top 20 and then fell into the second round I'd have been hurt. But I knew that possibility was likely and I was ready.

You just do what you can and you have as much fun as possible.

I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.

I don't want a perfect life, I don't want an easy life, I want to live life to the fullest. To me that feels like conquering as many things as possible.

My greatest life lesson has been that life can change in a second. This is why it's important to always live your best possible life and to do what you can for others.

Anything is possible. My background is a bad background, but a lot of people said I couldn't do it. You can do anything if you put your mind to it.

You always try to fight for yourself, isn't it? You try to do the best possible job.

It's okay to fail 'cause there's no failure, you're just informing the richness of your experience, and that's - that's the greatest gift you can possibly give yourself.

I'm not going to give up doing interesting things. I'm going to do it as long as I possibly can and hopefully have longevity in this business.

I accept the dying process. I would just like to be as healthy as I possibly can at each step and phase along the way.

Did I have rough days? Days I didn't want to train? Days I thought my career would never get back off the ground and possibly be over? Absolutely.

There's nothing worse when you have a job, and you read something, and you're like, 'God. How am I possibly going to make this work?'

I've fully accepted the fact that if I'm going to do a career like this, I have to be willing to take criticism, because it's a part of the job, you know? Any Instagram thing I post, someone's going to say something. I know that. Anything on Twitter, someone's going to judge whatever I do, whatever I say, whatever I look like. I understand that.

I realized early on in my life that I couldn't hit the curve or throw the 50-yard post pattern, so talking about it would be my way in.

I started working in an STD phone booth where I had to note down all the numbers that were dialed - this was post 9/11 when security was a looming issue. I got Rs 10 per day for my work. Soon after, a benefactor offered me a job in a cybercafe down the road for Rs 20.

There are a few people who get really rude to you and post harsh comments. Initially, they used to bother and affect me, but then I realized that they are faceless people.

Post career-threatening injury, you must fight not only your body, but your mind as well.

I'm the poster child for cyber bullying. It's hurtful.

I realize I will always be the poster child for police brutality, but I can try to use that as a positive force for healing and restraint.