Quotes About Resilience

I didn't want to be the sissy figure skater, you know.

This is a tough game. There are times when you've got to play hurt, when you've got to block out the pain.

Sports is about people who lose and lose and lose. They lose games; then they lose their jobs. It can be very intriguing.

The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.

The downside isn't really injury, fear of injury or the process of fighting back from injury. The downside, the very worst thing in the world, is surgery.

When you are in the public eye you cannot afford to show doubts. I do my crying alone.

Certain things do not effect me anymore, which is not always good. There is always commotion, but I notice that hardly anything affects me or puts me out of balance.

It is normal to enjoy praise and dislike criticism. True character is when you prevent either from affecting you in a negative matter.

Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out.

Playing hockey, there were a lot of guys bigger than me, so I knew I was going to get hit and have to deal with it. Gotta hit back.

We had a lot of adversity, but we found a way.

I never got to the point of needing drugs or thinking about giving up myself.

I think what endurance sports teach you is to stay dedicated, stay focused, and also to understand youre going to have ups and downs, but you need to keep running right through them.

Life is a full-contact sport, and there's a score up on the board.

In order to win you must be prepared to lose sometime. And leave one or two cards showing.

Hopefully the new breed of kids won't have to go through that hard lesson - my kids, my grandkids, my fans' kids, hopefully they won't have to go through it.

If you're not a competitor, you've just got to go home.

Sometimes sports can provide a medicine that no doctor can provide.

in the day after humans disappear, nature takes over and immediately begins cleaning house - our houses.

Missing, however, are nearly all fauna adapted to us. The seemingly invincible cockroach, a tropical import, long ago froze in unheated apartment buildings. Without garbage, rats starved or became lunch for the raptors nesting in burnt-out skyscrapers.

You understand... just what the Taoists mean when they say that soft is stronger than hard.

los PCB eran fluidos que nunca dejaban de lubricar; los PBDE, aislantes que nunca dejaban de evitar que el plástico se derritiera, y el DDT, un pesticida que nunca dejaba de matar. Como tales, ahora resultan difíciles de destruir; algunos, como los PCB, apenas muestran signo alguno de biodegradarse.

Nature gives children great emotional resilience to help them survive the oppressions of being small, but these oppressions still make them into slightly insane adults, either mad to seize all the power they once lacked or (more usually) mad to avoid it.

When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again.