Quotes About Resilience

The day it becomes impossible for teams like Palace to get results against City, the league might as well just fold up, and we'll do everything on paper.

Other teams fear me so much, just my being out there. I could even be playing on my deathbed, and I'd worry them.

Most teams - whether they like it or not against Manchester City - you're going to find yourself quite often penned in your own half.

When you play against Barcelona and other great teams in the world, you can lose. It happens.

That whole concept of team and teamwork and team first - that's how Israel, in my opinion, has survived in the Middle East.

A lot of guys came in after me and they quit before me. I've seen that a lot. That's motivation. That's teamwork, I don't do that myself.

If you take everything personally and to heart, it will tear you apart. Take criticism, learn, adjust, and move on.

I get racist letters all the time from people who aren't Bradford City supporters. You just laugh at them, tear them up and throw them in the bin.

I want to see Christian fiction speak to the hard and real issues that tear people's lives apart.

People like to tear you down. People are always going to take shots. You've just got to go for it.

You think about when I went to Miami. I played as a freshman, I go in and compete to be a starter, I tear my ACL. Come back, I start, I get off to a good couple of games and I get hurt again. You hear everybody saying, 'Oh, he's done.' I get drafted in the third round. People still said I got drafted too high, saying I'll only play three years.

I'm not going to please everyone; not everyone's going to like me. I accepted that a long time ago, and if I had to shed a tear every time I got a hate email, believe me, I'd be severely dehydrated.

In some ways the ACL tear was a blessing. I had hesitated to return to elite gymnastics after the 2008 Olympics. I told myself I had already accomplished so much, and the road was just going to get harder if I continued.

Being in the public eye, there will always be negatives. Those dark aspects will always be there and, so too, those things that will try and tear you down, but I have made the choice not to engage with them. I'm not going to let them affect me or destroy me.

I guess it is ironical that I have a chance to say to Jesse Jackson, 'You need to be mature. You need to be positive. You need to be bigger than the folks who are trying to tear you down.'

Even with the bad news, I felt calm. I never shed a tear when I called my wife and said, 'Amber, my test is positive. I have Ebola.'

The things I rap about are 100 percent real. But at the same time, I don't rap about those things to tear my city down. I give you the reality of what it is and what I been through and how it is living in those conditions in Gary, Ind.

Getting a tear in my ACL in 2012 puts a lot of things in perspective about being able to play the game.

I'm not going to shed a tear for not being liked.

I'm not a hero. The Hongkongers who confronted tear gas in the streets are the heroes.

I basically built myself up and I'm not about to let somebody else tear me down.

If we stand together as Singaporeans, there is not a force in this world that can tear us apart.

Our nation is too strong and too good to let one man tear down everything we stand for. I refuse to let Donald Trump take our country backwards.

Because of my sports background, I know how to overcome wear and tear and how to temporarily fix injuries on the spot.