Quotes About Resilience

Sometimes the calls just don't go your way. You've just got to learn to deal with those situations and try to prevent yourself from being in the same situation the next game.

I hope that anyone facing or experiencing discrimination will, first of all, take to heart that this is not their fault, and they are not alone in this. Secondly, I hope they find ways to plug into communities to help prevent negative feelings of discrimination from festering.

When I first started acting, somebody once said to me that anything that is a problem that prevents you from getting a job will eventually be a strength. It works both ways. The odder you are, the harder it is to get work, but once you sort of establish it, you have no competition.

A breakdown involves getting to the point at which your mental state prevents you from doing the normal things of your everyday life. I remember from my own experience that I was completely ambushed by mine.

It's right to flog a dead horse sometimes, when the previous flogging has not annihilated it.

I will not give way because too many previous governments have backed down.

My mentality is that no matter how good or bad the previous play was, move on to the next one.

There were a few times in previous fights where I was hurt. It's just a matter of not giving up, if you know what I'm saying.

Winning and losing is part of the game and it's not that we are the first team to have lost a match; previous teams also have faced defeats.

Every fight since I lost in the Strikeforce Heavyweight Grand Prix, every step for me is very important. Every fight becomes harder for me, more important for me than the previous fight.

Scars are the price you pay for success.

The price I have personally paid for these extra Sisyphean years has been prohibitive.

Though it's a small price to pay, shaving my head has opened more doors than I ever thought possible.

I think cancer is a hard battle to fight alone or with another person at your side, but I will say having someone to pick you up when you fall, stand by your side through every appointment and delivery of bad news, is priceless.

When you face any adversity in life those are the kind of lessons you can take and remember. Those are the things that are going to help me not just in football but in life, which is priceless.

These days cry out, as never before, for us to pay attention, so we can move through them and get our joy and pride back.

It's not that I take pride in being unfashionable. It's just that I've gotten used to it.

I always take pride in the fact that nobody can mess with me, and I never let anybody mess with me my entire life.

I always say, no matter what happens to me as a black man in country music, I can handle it if Charley Pride could handle all the stuff he went through.

I always say it's worth doing what you want to do, not letting people manipulate you. It's worth holding out. It's worth having pride.

There is certainly a future for Italian football, as we have pride, ability, determination, and after bad tumbles, we always find a way to get back on our feet.

Being robbed hurts - not physically, but from what it does to your pride.

For me, being able to be prepared for a lot of things is something I take pride in.

One of the things I do take some pride in is that if you had never read an article about my life, if you knew nothing about me, except that my books were being set in front of you to read, and if you were to read those books in sequence, I don't think you would say to yourself, 'Oh my God, something terrible happened to this writer in 1989.'