Quotes About Resilience

I worked extremely hard to put myself in the best position to not have to worry about things when I was out there. Because if I was out of shape, or if I didn't feel well, or if it was going to be a long match or a hot match, or something like that, a lot more things creep into your head.

My dad had this rock hard body and would work 12- to 13-hour days. The guys he worked with were scrap-iron guys. Nobody on that road crew had read a book in 10 years, but there was something about the way they lived I really admired.

I am not one of those girls who will sit on my bed and crib that nothing is happening with my life and things are not working.

Test cricket should be No. 1 for every cricketer.

Whenever you play international cricket, there is always a challenge.

You just need to go into matches with a clear plan in T20 cricket. If you go half-half, it's going to be really hard to come back.

It's the games you lose or struggle in that you learn most from in Test cricket.

In every sport you need a break and England seem to be the only cricket country which doesn't get one.

As part of the England women's cricket team, we had our own rickety period at the end of 2005 through to the beginning of 2007. Learning from our mistakes, by 2009 we were the best team in the world.

In 1974, I cried all day long. I kept putting my well arm next to my left one, which could not move. My mother kept saying, 'Don't be sad. If you cry, I will cry and then we will all be twice as sad.'

When I was a baby, if I cried, my parents didn't give me a blanket. They gave me a ball and sent me to the little court in our backyard. I must have cried a lot because I was one of those kids who could dribble and shoot at 5 years old.

I went to the top of the Cotton Bowl by myself, sat down and cried.

I've cried my eyes out and wanted to end it all before. I hope everybody's gone that far, because it makes life rich.

Was I afraid before every game I played? Did I throw up before kickoff? You bet. But I didn't let that fear cripple me and keep me in the locker room.

Crises are challenges, not calamities.

I've always said that my greatest crises are my greatest opportunities to prove my own character to myself.

Here's how I look at it: Life is full of challenges. Everybody has them. For some, it's health or family crises. I had a financial challenge.

Maintaining a sense of humor is key to getting people to also focus on the crises at hand.

Perhaps crisis forces commonality of purpose on one another.

I've always been calm, and I'm very good in a crisis.

If there's been a crisis in a market, you don't tend to have a new crisis in that market until the people who went through the last crisis aren't in the system anymore.

In a crisis, you separate the men from the boys.

A long-term crisis, after a certain point, no longer seems like a crisis. It seems like the way things are.

We're Americans - in times of crisis, we step up.