Quotes About Resilience

Mental will is a muscle that needs exercise, just like the muscles of the body.

You learn you can do your best even when its hard, even when you're tired and maybe hurting a little bit. It feels good to show some courage.

Passion is pushing myself when there is no one else around-just me and the road.

I'm not afraid of anyone, but sometimes I'm afraid of myself. The mental part is very important.

A true champion knows how to overcome doubts and manage those doubts and turn them into motivation.

Don't just stand back and play the way you're coached. A great player must rise to the occasion and turn the game around on his own.

Football doesn't build character, it reveals character.

The key is that I control my life; my life doesn't control me.

I have no regrets because I know I did my best - all I could do.

The mark of great sportsmen is not how good they are at their best, but how good they are their worst.

The first time you quit, it's hard. The second time, it gets easier. The third time, you don't even have to think about it.

Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

Beaten paths are for beaten men.

Sport is not about being wrapped up in cotton wool. Sport as about adapting to the unexpected and being able to modify plans at the last minute. Sport, like all life, is about taking risks.

To become a champion, fight one more round.

Losing doesn't eat at me the way it used to. I just get ready for the next play, the next game, the next season.

How am I to know what I can achieve if I quit?

Golf isn't like other sports where you can take a player out if he's having a bad day. You have to play the whole game.

No matter how much you've won, no matter how many games, no matter how many championships, no matter how many Super Bowls, you're not winning now, so you stink.

Difficulties are opportunities to better things; they are stepping-stones to greater experience...When one door closes, another always opens; as a natural law it has to, to balance.

You can get defeated, just as long as you don't fail.

I think you just have to keep knocking down doors, you have to keep being aggressive, and even if somebody says 'No', then you have to knock on the next door.

Not too hard for me to stay motivated when I'm in sport where everyone's trying to knock me out.

Football doesn't build character. It eliminates the weak ones.