Quotes About Resilience

If someone says something to me, I am not going to back down. Whether it's defending myself or standing up for one of my teammates, that is the way I play the game.

I know what I'm about. My teammates know, my family knows, everything else, I can't worry about.

You just have your teammates and yourself out there to pick you up, so just kind of shows you how strong you really can be.

I don't really take punishment from fights; the punishment is from the training, from my teammates.

If you stay around in the NBA long enough, you're going to bounce around, your teammates are going to bounce around, but those friendships, they remain constant.

It killed me being on the bench and watching my teammates play. I wanted to be out there helping them win. But that gave me more motivation.

There's pressure everywhere. For me, being able to control that, handle that through my family life, handle that with my teammates who support me and I them, I feel that's kind of how you get through those type of pressure times.

I don't think I'm soft. I don't think my teammates think I'm soft. I don't know where that comes from, but... whatever.

Just coming here to Pittsburgh, I just wanted to prove to the coaching staff and my teammates how much I love football.

It's no surprise that optimistic athletes, managers and teams do better. What's interesting is where they do better. It's in coming back from defeat and acting in the clutch.

I wasn't picked for any of the sports teams at school because I was half the size of everyone else, but now everyone assumes I must have been some sort of rugby player.

To continue to fight, not get frustrated, to stay together and find a way - I think that's important. I think good teams do that.

Even if your teams are doing lousy and you don't have a good concert, you are still going to be Madison Square Garden, you are still going to be the 'showplace of America.'

I was this eggheady kid, the one who was consistently beaten up and picked last for the baseball teams.

Tough teams win when the shots are not going.

The English teams are very difficult to face.

There is hard work involved, and maybe many people wouldn't like that. But for the best teams in the world who can do that without losing too many points, then it's just great.

Sometimes it is difficult to play against teams who just drop back and try to defend.

My mum literally drives into Skid Row every day and manages teams that are assembled to walk around and engage with usually chronically homeless people and try to get them into permanent housing.

Why did you come here?" he asked at last "Because you hit me on the head and dragged me here." If I was going to die, I was going to go in true Rose style

but if you get a chance to be the baddest and strongest, always be the baddest and strongest.

Bueno, todos debemos hacer cosas que no nos gustan, la vida es así.

That was nothing. I've talked myself out of much worse.

The poem's called 'Love Is Enough.' As long as we're together, that's how we'll be. No trembling. No faltering. We're unstoppable.