Quotes About Resilience

You can either hope and pray you don't get picked on, or you can, in a way, almost make yourself a bigger target, because it's harder to bully something that's really big. It's easy to bully something that's small and frail.

I think everyone at school experiences some form of bullying. With kids at school, it can be anything - it can be your shoes or the wrong bag or anything. If you are big like I am, you are always going to be a target. So I decided at school to make myself an even bigger target, if you like: to make myself as big as I could be.

As an actor, you put yourself out there. You put yourself in the arena as an easy target.

I'm black. I'm gay. I'm culturally Christian. I am a walking target on so many levels, and it is horrifying and a cross that very, very many of us who look like me have to bear.

Being at NDSU and winning national championships, everyone's gunning for you. You got a big target on your back, and we had to be ready to go week in and week out. I think playing for a program like that, everyone's going to give you their best shot, and we embrace that.

For sure, I definitely feel like there's a target on my back.

I will not walk away from the people and communities whom I love deeply. I will continue to raise my voice for justice and equality for all, organize communities who want to defend the rights of black people, stand against policies that target and marginalize Muslims, and advocate for health care for all people.

Kids used to pick on me because I was quiet, I was an easy target. But I wasn't quiet because I was scared.

I was a target. There was a guy who took a paint roller extension pole and blasted me in the knee a few times. I had to have surgery to relieve the pain when I got out of prison.

Once you are first in the East, one of the top teams in the league, you have a target on your back every night.

The more you target me, the more fun it is for me.

I'm a target on and off the court. I've done some things I regret. But being a target is rough.

It's all fun and games when you're scoring goals but there will be a time when I'm not and I just have to try and keep doing the same things. Hit the target and, you know, see what happens at the end of the game.

I don't indulge in the luxury of feeling when necessity requires that we meet a target. One just bucks up and does it.

I think that anybody that is interesting and takes risks is always going to be a target.

The good thing about having the target on my back is that I am a very hard target to hit.

If anyone can say 'go back,' it's Native Americans. My Pueblo ancestors, despite being targeted at every juncture - despite facing famine and drought - still inhabit this country today. But indigenous people aren't asking anyone to go back to where they came from.

Post 9/11, brown people had this force pushing us together. It's like we're all being looked at with fear and suspicion; we're all being targeted, so how do you support yourself and your communities?

We are targeted when humor is not taken in the right spirit, but that's a part and parcel of this profession.

I've been targeted since I was 17, 18, 19.

We live in a world where black people are targeted for death and destruction, and we should not be surprised when moments such as these occur - in fact, Charlottesville confirms the violence that black people endure every day.

Most of the attacks, most of the online hate that I've received has really been targeted at my Jewish identity.

The old player in me can certainly sympathise with how your targets change because you simply do not know what is around the corner.

I know that no matter what is said about Martin the King Jr., what he contributed, what he gave, what he meant, what he means all over this planet cannot be tarnished.