Quotes About Resilience

At heart, I'm a dude from South Central Los Angeles. We roll the way we roll because we had survival tactics; we had to learn how to adapt. That's just me.

There's nothing wrong with struggle. Anytime I look back at a difficult phase of my life and see what grew out of it - the creative survival tactics - I think that the good is way better than the bad.

I'm not afraid of fear tactics. They don't work on me.

From a personal point of view, you want to be playing in every game, but when you have to cope with the heat, the artificial surfaces, injuries, and tactics based around the coach's selection, you can't do it all.

There were times I'd be nervous walking home from elementary school, thinking, 'If that red tag from the power company saying our lights are turned off is on the door handle, I don't know what I'll do.'

I was born illegitimately and almost immediately, as I understand it, placed in an orphanage. So my very earliest memories were in an orphanage. It was the tag end of the Great Depression when I was born. People were desperately poor.

I really carried that seventh-round tag with me my whole career, even at the end.

I think any actor can relate to the feeling of 'Just tag me in, coach, give me a chance.' Athletes go through the same thing. To be quite honest, most people in any job or career probably go though that, when you want a chance to prove what you can do, or somebody is taking away a chance at something you can do.

I would hang out with my friends, and they would make me sing in exchange for food. I'd tag along just so I could eat. Then we would go to the park, and I'd sleep there with other homeless kids.

I never put a 'last one' tag on my fights because you never know.

Follow me around. I don't care. If anybody wants to put a tail on me, go ahead. They'd be very bored.

If you play this game long enough, you're going to get your tail kicked at least once.

Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail.

It's not easy not getting playing time, but you have to keep showing up and working your tail off to be ready.

You've got to go out there and play your tail off every single day and at times during the year it can be tough to do that.

I want to be a manager, it wouldn't scare me, but I also think you could be sacked in six months and you'd have to take the kids back to school with your tail between your legs.

I grew up in Taiwan, which was a military dictatorship.

Take risks. Ask big questions. Don't be afraid to make mistakes; if you don't make mistakes, you're not reaching far enough.

Life is about how much you can take and keep fighting, how much you can suffer and keep moving forward.

Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.

It's not who's the best - it's who can take the most pain.

Ain't no point in stopping or slowing down. Ain't like no 'A'ight, I'm done with this, now take a break,' you just keep going.

When adversity strikes, that's when you have to be the most calm. Take a step back, stay strong, stay grounded and press on.

In 1978, I had a near-fatal car accident in the Bahamas. There was a point when I could have lost my right arm - but it was good because it forced me to slow down and take a break.