Quotes About Resilience

Jim Crow was king... and I heard a game in which Jackie Robinson was playing, and I felt pride in being alive

Nobody's taller than the last man standing

You're never a loser until you quit trying.

Life is meant to be a challenge, because challenges are what make you grow.

Some days you tame the tiger, and some days the tiger has you for lunch.

Fighters find it hard to give up doing what they do best - fighting for a living.

A champion shows who he is by what he does when he's tested. When a person gets up and says 'I can still do it', he's a champion.

To finish first, you must first finish.

The good Lord gave you a body that can stand most anything. It's your mind you have to convince.

Make sure your worst enemy doesn't live between your two ears.

The human body is capable of amazing physical deeds. If we could just free ourselves from our perceived limitations and tap into our internal fire, the possibilities are endless.

It's not so much what you accomplish in life that really matters, but what you overcome that proves who you are, what you are, and whether you are a champion.

Life is about timing and overcoming difficult things.

The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.

Don't give up. Don't ever give up.

Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.

You have no choices about how you lose, but you do have a choice about how you come back and prepare to win again.

Somebody will always break your records. It is how you live that counts.

I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it.

Never underestimate the heart of a champion.

You can't let one bad moment spoil a bunch of good ones.

If I am pushed I will push back, that is the way I am. I am very British. We don't like to be pushed around. When the chips are down we might have to step into grey areas.

Running reminded me exactly who I am and what I am made of.

We need people who influence their peers and who cannot be detoured from their convictions by peers who do not have the courage to have any convictions.