Quotes About Resilience

In my day, defenders played you with two hands and an elbow. You're not getting by a guy, especially if he has an elbow and a hand on you and is a strong defensive player.

I'm not the kind of guy who gets defensive after something goes wrong.

I think it's very important to have a good defensive team.

That's one part of my game that never leaves - the defensive part.

We can't get down on one loss or one bad defensive play. We gotta play through it.

On the defensive end, I just have to be better.

Every year they are making the game harder and harder for a defensive player to play.

Blocking a shot can really demoralize a person and defer them from coming to the rim the rest of the game. So being able to do that and change the landscape of the game by one play is pretty amazing.

I was born asthmatic so came into boxing with deficiencies.

I believe that one bad decision should not define a person.

I live with being bipolar, but it doesn't define me anymore.

There are no limitations. There are no barriers. Nothing can stop you, and nothing can define you but you.

MS doesn't define who I am.

Money doesn't always define basketball.

One game is never going to define a player.

One play don't define a game.

You can't let games define who you are and your character as a player.

This is not me, WWE doesn't define who Ashley is.

This game doesn't define who I am as a person.

I'm kind of used to people trying to define me or, you know, lying about me.

What I want to see in teacher training is more talk about character education and getting teachers to really think about it. We have been careful not to define what we mean by character but we think the best schools and the best teachers know how they build strong, resilient young people.

Courage? Well, that's a difficult quality to define. If a man has never known fear can you call him courageous?

Just as basketball doesn't define who I am, neither does being gay.

I tried never to be defined by my past.