Quotes About Resilience

I don't know if I like getting hit, but I try to draw contact.

You get hit a lot of times. With 82 games, it's hard. I want to be stronger so I can take the contact better.

It is a contact sport. Being tough is also part of the game.

Your sanity is harder to get back than money or contacts. You are the magic. You are the art. You can't lose that.

I really believe in people putting stories out there that contain the most difficult moments because nothing to me is more lonely making than sanitized stories or airbrushed stories that kind of allied how hard it got.

I don't have to be perfect with my ball-striking, because I have other things that can pick me up, that's been a big confidence boost for me, knowing I don't have to be perfect; I can still contend and have a chance to win.

A champion's strength comes from never being contented.

Not being in the dunk contest isn't going to stop me from dunking.

Because of my style, I always make hard work of my contests.

Contests, I used to look at as a chance to fail. I turned my mind-set around.

Africa is the continent that the rest of the world prefers not to think about.

We moved around a lot when I was kid. I'd lived in three continents before I was 12.

The concept of loneliness and exile and self-sufficiency continually bucks me up.

Roads and bridges can't serve us if they're continually eroded by a worsening climate crisis.

Basketball is a lifelong game. You continue to learn from the game day in and day out, and all along the way, you get better.

I've said to people before that I'm going to do my very best to make it, and I'm not going to give up. And that's true. But I might not make it. And if I don't make it, the Marathon of Hope better continue.

Baseball continues, life continues, and I have to continue to work.

We came to know each other in war, and in war we continue.

I can see me continuing to make the best music I can, and let the chips fall where they may.

I appreciate everything that happened in Sacramento. It was character building for me, continuing to go out and play hard. I feel like I progressed as a player.

For me, it's never really been a road block for me to shoot, it's just a matter of me continuing to shoot and shooting with confidence.

I'm continuing to figure it out every single year: Life is a challenge, and the ones that succeed in life are the tough-minded ones that are not willing to accept failure.

The ability to change constantly and effectively is made easier by high-level continuity.

I can't change me and I can't change other people's thinking. All I can do is continuously get better. So if I'm doing that, even if somebody doesn't like me or respect me, I don't care.