Quotes About Resilience

I grew up in a family where my brother was in prison. My father was in prison.

I have done prison time for 13 years without any conviction.

Even if I was in prison, I could be free in my head. I can adapt easily.

People always think about what prison is. What prison really is - it's not a physical challenge, it's mental.

It's always crude to link Dickens back to the blacking factory where he was sent to work aged 12 when his father was imprisoned in Marshalsea Prison for bad debt, but it was obviously a huge part of him.

I'm almost positive I have some type of PTSD. Almost a decade of my life was consumed by the prison system.

After six prison commitments, at the end of those, I was more broken than when I went into the system.

When I went to prison, for three years I didn't say a word to another human being until, going into the fourth year, when I realized, 'You know what, I have to find a way to live.'

I wrote, exercised, ate healthy, and responded to life in prison very well.

Going to prison actually helped save my life, I believe.

After five years in prison, five years on parole, and a total of 10 years of being in hell, I can look back on it all and say I played in four NFL games. It's incredible.

No one wants to be sent to prison, including me.

I had to grow up in prison for something I did not do.

My worst memory is living through the 1989 riot in Huntingdon Prison.

It's a long story, my life, growing up with my dad, my mom when she died, everything. I had bad moments in my life, my dad going to prison, I had nothing, and that's where I got my motivation.

I came home to four children, and I came home to two tombstones. My mother was in one and my grandmother was in the other. They'd both passed away while I was in prison.

I couldn't get on a 'Source' cover 'til I went to prison.

I could have ended up in a gang or in prison because Harlesden is real rough and I was always a naughty boy. That's how I got into boxing.

I thought, 'This is not going to drag me down, this is going to make me a better man.' So I came out of prison a man with a plan, determined to set up a business importing Italian ingredients.

When I grew up, my auntie was in prison.

I was just proud of myself that, even under extreme stress and adversity, I was still able to do my job and do it well. And still able to earn an income while in prison.

Prison, I don't want to go back there again.

In my mind, there was never a thought that I wasn't going to find a way to get myself out of prison.

Once I understood what was going to happen - that I was going to prison for life - my end goal was making sure they wouldn't be able to keep me there.