Quotes About Resilience

The Mets have shown me more ways to lose than I even knew existed.

Athletes have a certain stubbornness that carries us through and makes us do things that people say we can't do.

One loss is good for the soul, Too many losses is not good for the coach.

It's a hard life as a professional cricketer. It's not as easy as everyone makes out. To survive you need a tough hide.

If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.

Golf is the hardest game in the world. There is no way you can ever get it. Just when you think you do, the game jumps up and puts you in your place.

I was thinking about making a comeback, until I pulled a muscle vacuuming.

The content and thematic materials of dance is, of itself, like boxing. You play tennis and baseball. But boxing is not a sport you play: you stand up and do it.

The thing I learned when I was playing was that your best way of winning was to make it difficult for the other team to score in the last three innings.

It's not how hard you pushed along the way. It's having something in you to finish.

Rest if you must, but never quit.

The greatest gap in sports is between the winner and the loser of the Super Bowl. The winner has confetti, parades, rings, the whole thing. The loser puts his head down and goes to his house.

You have to train your mind like you train your body.

Swimming is probably the ultimate of burnout sports.

If a team intimidate you physically and you let them, they've won.

I'm not in this sport to see how hard I can get hit or to see how many big punches I can take. I am in this game to fight as long as I can. I am trying to dish a lot of punishment.

Profit by your own mistakes and profit by the mistakes of others. The referees were calling ball handling violations like they were getting commissions.

I love pushing my body to the limit & seeing how far I can take it before it breaks.

My favorite driver is always either the bad guy or the underdog.

That's kind of how I approach life and football; why dwell on something that's hasn't happened.

Don't matter what they throw at us. Only angry people win football games.

This ability to conquer oneself is no doubt the most precious of all things sports bestows.

Fear is part of the process. If you weren't scared, you'd be in trouble.

Sometimes we get so afraid of hitting bad shots (making bad pitches), we don't let ourselves hit (pitch) good ones.