Quotes About Resilience

I think it's a bit short-sighted to play any character and not explore, in some respects, the way they act when things get really bad.

Boxing gave me a voice to express the anger I felt for where I came from.

Dance is not endangered - it will always find a way to express itself.

I want to extend my career for as long as I can.

I felt pain every night. After games, it took me a long time to walk to my car, and the driving home, it took me a couple of minutes even to get out of my car and extend my legs and just walk.

Wrestling is just an extension of who I am.

The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.

I feel like I have been able to rewrite my story to some extent. But I feel like there is a lot of work to be done.

I know you can do anything you put your mind to and the exterior doesn't matter.

I moved around so much when I was younger that I sort of had to have this type of exterior; you know, I was afraid of getting hurt.

I never blamed Pinochet, or my torturers, or external circumstances.

In comparison to an able-bodied person, it's incredible, the amount of extra resistance I have, in comparison to an able body.

As I get older, my body isn't bulletproof, and it's starting to break down. And I'm still young, so it's something that I have to maintain, something that I have to work extra, extra hard, just as hard as my golf game, I have to work on my body as well.

I have to be extra careful, but I'm never going to change the way I play.

There is a heavy leaning to try and extract information from me, and I always have to clamp down.

The elasticity of Shakespeare is extraordinary.

We've lived through some extraordinary moments, and the saddest moments as well. We have to learn.

I've been wrong so often, I don't find it extraordinary at all.

People go to extraordinary lengths to get films made.

The math of durability in McCain's life is extraordinary.

My childhood was extreme.

I like the fact that when you're put into a really extreme situation, you put everything else aside. You put your ego aside and get on with it, and I quite like that.

My life has been extreme. Most people will not have the experience I've had. But the things that changed me, really changed me, they happen to everyone.

It's really sad sometimes that you have to go to that extreme bottom to find your way back up, but it's true.