Quotes About Resilience

My hope for my daughter is that she has the courage to at least try to do it all, to be kind to herself when it all doesn't come together perfectly, and to follow her dreams.

I know perfectly well that in football, you have good times, and you have bad times.

Anyone can have a good day, but you have to be able to perform on a bad day.

I really like 'Hard-Knock Life' because I get to perform with all of the other girls, and it's such a strong number.

Some of the best songs that artists perform year after year are ones they hated.

I need to maintain my performance levels high for many seasons. I hope I can do that.

Be honest about how you approach failure. Don't just be critical of yourself, because that can be self-serving. Approach it honestly, assess your performance, and assess the areas where you have fallen short. Correct them and move on. Don't dwell on it. Don't hold on to it.

As an individual, I have no fear of failure... I think that translates on-screen in my performances.

Coping with injuries is always difficult for athletes because all we want to do is, basically, to have our best performances unhindered.

I've dealt with bigger things than the odd performance, dealt with a hell of a long time out of the game from an injury which shouldn't have kept me out for that long. I've had to deal with fears of not playing again, I'm a bigger man for it and I will be better for it in the future.

'Malvolio' is the one show of mine that will not die. I've performed it more than 200 times all over the place.

I've always believed that I performed better under pressure.

I keep showing decade after decade that I am a real performer.

For me, it's been a long road of growth. Not only as a performer but as a man, as a father and all that kind of stuff so at one point in my career I really just wanted to give up and hang it because I wasn't getting anywhere, I wasn't getting myself in good shape.

I wouldn't be the performer I am if everyone thought I was the best. Having people against you, or who don't quite believe in you, gives a lot of extra fuel to never settle.

Every performer will have a bad night. It's just inevitable.

I believe if you are a good performer, then nothing can stop you.

Most performers are used to the highs and the lows. If you can let a low stop you, that would be a sad commentary.

People expect that I'll be just perfect on ice, and that's not the case. I make mistakes, too. When I review my performance, sometimes I feel I did awful. That's the whole part of the process of what people see when I'm performing.

I'm healed up and I feel great. After going through the fire, it's great to be out performing again.

In films you do a scene, you play around with it and unless you're doing a lot of reshooting, which no one has the luxury to do, you deal with the problem for a day and then you move on. On some level, it never allows you to go very deep into what performing is about.

If you keep performing, and if you stay healthy, you keep playing.

I had the humble beginnings. I was doing comedy in laundry mats in 1992, literally where I would bring a little gorilla amp and a lapel mike and just start performing.

After so many surgeries, I had to modify my game. I know what I can and can't do in order to keep performing for a long period of time.