Quotes About Resilience

When you are through trying to improve, you are through.

Think street, train sport.

I've never known anybody to achieve anything without overcoming adversity.

I don't like losing a ballgame any more than a salesman likes losing a sale.

It ain't over 'til it's over.

To be consistently effective, you must put a certain distance between yourself and what happens to you on the golf course. This is not indifference, it's detachment.

And once you cross over into that world, no matter how strong you are, you have to pay the price.

Hustle makes up for many a mistake.

My toughest fight was with my first wife.

The most important thing about winning is believing that you can win no matter who you are playing.

Don't tell me how rocky the sea is, just bring the ship in.

You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you'll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit.

I told myself after 2008 that I was done for good. But they say you can't keep a gymnast away from her sport.

Stay calm and aggressive.

I started skating and I kind of liked it because I could run circles around the guys that wouldn't pick me to play baseball.

It wasn't always easy getting up at 5 o'clock in the morning to go to the rink. Sometimes I wanted to just go back to sleep.

Even with the quality of players that we have, they're an extremely hard side to break down and once they get on top of you, you find it difficult to stem the flow of attacks.

We count on winning. And if we lose, don't beef. And the best way to prevent beefing is - don't lose.

I've gone through back surgery a couple times, and of course, my radiation treatments for six weeks got me to the point where I was not able to play at the level that I was accustomed to.

It doesnt matter who is playing or how old they are. I just worry about what I can control. It doesnt give me more or less motivation.

Sport can create hope, where once there was only despair

There were mornings when I just didn't want to get out of bed. But once again, I'm in an adverse situation and having to deal with something new and learn how to do it.

And when the pressure was on us, the team handled it very well. One has to learn to play well under pressure.

I got bad calls every match, and I never got an apology. So I thought it was rather strange.