Quotes About Resilience

There are two things that come very easily to me: rooting for New York sports teams and making mistakes.

Teams are going to try to hit me because they think I can't take a hit. I think I've proven over my career that I can.

When there were just eight teams in each of the big leagues, I was always told, 'It's hard to come up, but it's just hard to stay in the big leagues.' That's because there's always somebody. The Cardinals had so many minor league clubs and had so many good ballplayers.

When I started playing, there were no teams and no structure, so I had to play with the boys. I get very emotional when I think about the humiliation that I've suffered playing football.

Really, I learned a long time ago that in the National Football League, paper doesn't mean anything. Football teams are created on the football field.

In my career, I played for four different teams in a lot of different systems, and it's like learning another language.

Smaller markets teams, when you hit bottom, you hit with a thud.

It's funny because everybody has injuries, and different teams handle them differently.

I was recruited by every school in the country for football and basketball. And an incident happened in high school, and all that was taken away. No other teams, no other schools were recruiting me anymore.

I like being part of teams that go into things that people don't think are doing very well and getting into them to do better.

Teams are always hitting me in the gut, trying to grab me when I jump and stuff like that. But I expect it.

The first time I played against Seattle was the only time I felt destroyed. Vin Baker just manhandled me. The whole thing, their double teams, their movement, everything. I must've had eight turnovers. Which isn't a big deal for me because I turn the ball over a lot.

Kids need time for problem solving, critical thinking, applying knowledge through project-based instruction, working in teams, falling down and getting right back up to figure out what they didn't understand and why.

It sounds kind of cliche when teams say, 'Us against the world,' but that's the mentality you have to have. There are so many opinions out there that come from media, that come from your family or come from people on TV.

A lesson learned, both in the SEAL teams and as an entrepreneur, is that failure is sometimes a critical component of success.

Through the regular season, if you get really good at what you do, teams will have a hard time adjusting to you.

It's always tough to play against teams that bunker or 'park the bus' inside the 18-yard box, but we always try to focus on our game and how we can overcome the obstacles that the game presents to continue to get better and score goals.

I understand when you have great players on losing teams who are tired of losing, struggling in the playoffs every year. You're the lone star. I've been in that position.

Being passed up by teams because of my size made me hungry. I've seen a lot of first-round guys who come in and never really do nothing because they may not appreciate the opportunity because everything has been given to them. I think guys who come from the bottom understand how hard it is, so they appreciate the opportunities more.

If you can get your team to that point of being able to be in that playoff race mindset every week, that's something that most teams can't do.

Growing up on an all-boys' team wasn't the easiest thing. I'd have guys come after me on the ice and just hit me because I'm a girl. I'd have parents heckling me from the stands, other parents not wanting me on the team, not making certain teams just because I was a girl.

It is good to play strong teams.

It is always tough, always difficult playing against Klopp's teams.

The West is tough. Great teams. Great records, top to bottom.