Quotes About Resilience

I don't have dry seasons, because I don't allow them.

Usually, a model gets two to three seasons, or a year and a half, and that's it - you're done. For me, it will be 10 years.

These seasons, as you get older, they just are so long and draining.

Seasons just don't go easy all the way through.

If you want to be a top player you have to play well for the whole season and then ten more seasons, not just three or four games.

There was no real plan B. It was like, I'm gonna move back to Seattle and move in with my parents.

The SEC is a line-of-scrimmage league. You'd better be good up front, or you're going to have some long days.

Football is football; I don't care if you're doing it in Division II, NAIA, or in the SEC or anything in between.

I believe, in life, you always get a second chance.

In life, you always have a second chance.

If you can roll at every angle, it becomes second nature to protect yourself when you fall.

To me basketball is secondary. I had to really fight for my life. I almost died over this game.

Basketball was just secondary, and I never had the opportunity to really address the issues that I was having physically.

Just because I'm not dancing on a video every five seconds doesn't mean I'm not working.

I think I can get back to a place where I'm more in control and there are small blips, as opposed to massive wobbles every two seconds.

I'm a lot more secure than I used to be.

Don't let anyone tell you what you cannot do. My whole life I had people tell me 'you'll never do that' or 'you'll never be that.' Things people said I'd never be able to do, I'm doing. I try and stress that to kids. A lot of inner-city kids have an overwhelming sense of hopelessness. I have to explain that there is hope.

If you look at a lot of kids from the inner city, there's this overwhelming sense of hopelessness and despair, and I dealt with that first hand.

Our house was repossessed and we lived in a B&B until we got a council house. It was a struggle, but Mum just got her head down, found cleaning jobs and never complained. I owe her a lot, so I now do everything she says.

Life does not owe me a shred.

When it comes to heartbreaks and disappointments, I often have to be more or less done with them to be able to write about them. Then you might ask why I would write about them at all, but I think I owe it to the Jens of the past.

I owe much to Sangeeth. His film 'Apna Sapna Money Money' brought me back in a big way.

Katniss Everdeen owes her last name to Bathsheba Everdene, the lead character in 'Far From the Madding Crowd.' The two are very different, but both struggle with knowing their hearts.

Bryce Dallas Howard