Quotes About Resilience

New York... when civilization falls apart, remember, we were way ahead of you.

I can't do anything else. So if this falls through, I'm screwed.

I always put my head down, work as hard as I can, and sort of let the chips falls were they may.

If you know me, I don't hold back. I take what I can get, and whatever falls.

So you've got to test the envelope, find out what are your abilities and if you falter, pick yourself up and test it again. Otherwise, what is it all about, you know?

I'm familiar with adversity.

We didn't have much money growing up, so we hopped around L.A. a lot in the '70s, '80s and '90s. I'm very familiar with the shifting culture there.

Doors being closed or made harder to open is something I'm very familiar with - and I don't like it.

Military families become familiar with trying to contort their lives around deployments and separations.

People who come from dysfunctional families are not destined for a dysfunctional life.

I think Compton is a really attractive place for young families.

I believe all teams choke in certain situations.

I've been on teams that lost a hundred games in a season. I've been on teams that had a shot to make the playoffs and fizzled out at the end.

Philadelphians are intensely loyal. They don't switch teams even when the Sixers lose by 63 points or the Phillies finish last in the NL East.

When you have bad teams, you've got to be creative to win games you're not supposed to win.

It's difficult when you play the best teams in the world. You have to be strong as a team and defend and get clean sheets.

Other fans might stop coming to games when their teams fall in the standings. Blazers fans just pack the house even more.

There's teams that have a lot of success in the back-to-back, and I think those teams just have a strong mental fortitude.

There are not many Chicagos, where people go out and support their sports teams, whether they are struggling or not.

We will fight against good teams.

Sometimes, in the last minute, against big teams... you never expect you have the chance to win, but there is that 'garra' that everyone talks about.

I'm a hardened old guy. I've been cut in so many ways and dumped on by so many teams, I've been through it all, but I'd do it all over.

You don't have to find out what someone's mechanical abilities are. All those factors are already a known commodity. I've seen teams win championships and have their entire team quit the next day because they weren't happy.

You learn from playing against the best players and the best teams, and we're going to keep fighting and figuring out ways to beat them.