Quotes About Resilience

You just have to believe in yourself when you've got something, and just keep pounding on the door, because if you pound long enough, somebody is going to open it.

Let me tell you, it is still morning in America. It just happens to be kind of a head pounding, hung over for four hours in America - and it's shaping up to be a nasty day, but its still morning in America.

I was shooting over my head. With my long arms, it was like a slingshot. Coming from college to the NBA, I was only about 180 pounds, so I was trying to push the ball to the rim from the 3-point line.

When you tell a recruiter that you're almost 300 pounds and you want to be a SEAL, it doesn't go too well. I got hung up on a lot.

I had a very long home birth. She was almost 10 pounds and did not want to come out.

If you want to lose 40 pounds, you order salad instead of fries. If you want to be a better friend, you take the phone call instead of screening it. If you want to write a novel, you sit down and write a single paragraph. It's scary to make major changes, but we usually have enough courage to take the next right step.

I never back down from a challenge and when I learned that a single drop of Krazy Glue was strong enough to hold up to 1,000 pounds, I knew I had to put the product's strength to the test for myself.

I lost ten pounds while shooting 'Faults' somehow and by the end of the shoot people were basically handing me stuff to eat in between takes.

I have to continue to be different and stand my ground in this division until I'm done at 154 pounds.

I mean, to be honest with you, my whole career I've guarded players that have outweighed me by 30 pounds. Period, 'Melo to LeBron.

You don't have to be 6-foot-7, you don't have to be 300 pounds. You can be 5-foot-2 and 135 pounds and still be one of the baddest dudes on the planet.

Don't worry about me. Worry about the next man. If you see me in a fight, don't help me. Pour honey on me and then help the bear. Don't worry about me. I'm Dorothy Bowe's baby boy. I'm going to be all right.

The scripts don't come pouring in; I have to fight for every part.

Cancer can catch even the best of us off guard. Sometimes the emotions come pouring out. Sometimes they stay locked inside.

I'm not going to go run and hide because I'm catching some heat. I'm not going to stay at home and pout.

I would cry after losses when I was a kid and pout. But I played like that.

Nothing prompts creativity like poverty, a feeling of hopelessness, and a bit of panic.

Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.

I know what poverty is.

Some folks believe that hardship breeds artistic creativity. I don't buy it. One can put up with poverty for a while when one is young, but it will inevitably wear a person down.

When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn't know it had a name.

Poverty is the schoolmaster of character.

Music has empowered me through poverty, abuse, and mental-health issues.

You know how people love to glamorize poverty? There's nothing glamorous about it. But it did make me really creative. Those days, I was literally taking t-shirts in the day and sewing them back together to make dresses for the night.