Quotes About Resilience

Boxing was just another one to keep me going as a child.

I don't play boxing.

Boxing never hurt me at all.

I have experience of boxing. I know what it is like to be hit. Half my life is boxing. I start fighting when I am 16.

Football and boxing helped me immensely. Those sports helped me become dangerous.

Boxing's a very lonely sport. That ring is the loneliest place in the world.

One of the reasons boxing is one of the greatest things to happen to my life is because it made me human again.

I get hate mail. I get bad mail. People say they will boycott you or the team.

People called me sharktooth, Dracula. I got made fun of so much cause I couldn't afford braces.

I've not had a career like Brady or Rodgers with all the Super Bowls and the incredible things they've done. But for me, the adversity made me who I am.

You can't just drive with no brakes and think that everything is going to go great, and the minute something goes bad, you fall apart.

After 'Ishq Brandy,' I was either not getting good scripts or not good characters.

I always felt like the UFC brass kind of had it out for me.

I've lived in 11 states, but I'm not an Army brat. My father couldn't hold a job, so every six months, we'd move.

It used to be that the black comic figure had to have this bravado and always showed strength.

To play a bag woman is brave for any woman.

I'd rather not be called 'brave.'

A brave mind is always impregnable.

I say, 'Be brave. Do it even if your ankles shake, because they will.'

I think sometimes that people think brave means not being afraid, which of course it doesn't mean that at all. It means that you're afraid, but you move past that and do it anyway, do what you think is right.

I don't know if I'm brave.

I'm not a very brave person.

People are always asking me - because of my family - if I ever feel pressure or feel like I have something to live up to. And having that in the back of my head, I've just learned to be really brave even in the face of feeling ill-prepared.

I'm not brave. Far from it.