Quotes About Resilience

I have endless admiration for people like Chrissie Hynde who've been out as the only girl in a band. I'm not sure that, even as a little Marine Corps brat, I would've been able to deal with that.

Our mom was a super strident, capable, and strong individual. I think because she was a military wife in the Marine Corps, she had to push back the things that she believed, and she had to really scrape and fight to have her space.

We always try to correct what we did wrong; you can always learn something when you lose.

Cancer is something that can happen to anyone, like a sportsperson who is eating right and doing his bit correctly. Cancer really takes your life away.

People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of compensatory excesses.

My own belief is that people can come back from anything. It doesn't mean that it won't come at a huge cost.

I'm not going to sit on the couch in my house and expect everything to come, I know that I must continue to work hard.

I was brought up on a council estate. I know what it's like to be poor.

The council estate I grew up on wasn't too bad.

The thing is with boxers we don't come from Cambridge and places like that, we come from council estates. So in boxing it's very, very hard.

It doesn't seem very long ago I was a girl from a council estate with nothing but dreams.

I grew up on a poor council estate so I know what it feels like not to have the money to dress as you'd like.

I left 'Octomom.' I went back to my life as a counselor.

Maybe I'll take a little better care of myself, but I wouldn't count on it.

I want all my pain to count for something.

I just never count on anything. You can't.

My fouls used to be ticky-tacky, but I learned real fast to make them count.

I've been told to go back to my country so many times, I can't even count.

You can't count me out.

My whole life I've worked. My whole life I've been counted out.

I've been counted out a lot of times, but always find a way to win.

Whenever Elway was on the field, you never counted the Broncos out.

I feel like I was counted out, you know, my first two seasons in the NBA. They might not have been perfect, but I'm proud of them.

It's not fun to watch your team go out, and guys that you've worked so hard with, and the countless hours you've put in on your own time to go and showcase all your hard work, and then have it taken from you and then see your boys playing without you.