Quotes About Resilience

My natural abilities weren't necessarily brute power and strength. They were more about the ability to endure and not give up.

You're always going to have a Dez Bryant somewhere in the league, somebody who has to go through some off-the-field problems in order to reach his potential.

Everyone would like the world always to be in bubble times. But that doesn't happen.

Sometimes when you lose a game, you win a game, you get stuck in the bubble.

As a batter, I just try to put myself in a bubble, not letting anything in from the outside, looking only at how many runs I can score.

I hope to always be doing some low budget things.

I don't buy into this, 'Oh, poor us. We've got tough budget problems.'

We play sometimes against teams with more individual quality than us, better players, bigger budgets, whatever, but we try to play our football. We don't try to change too much in our philosophy, in our model.

Teams with limited budgets will always find times tough and results won't always go your way.

Jamie-Lynn Sigler

You have to build yourself up a bit. You have to believe in yourself, because not that many other people will, you know?

We try to make buildings last long and be resilient but also be not so idiosyncratic that they can't change.

I used to play shows in D.C. and then drive back to New York to work at 6 A.M. So there are those moments, and you just really need to power through them. Eventually, it builds on itself.

I think as an away team, if you like that type of atmosphere where everybody's against you, you know it's going to be just you and your guys there for three hours trying to get a win. When you can get a win in that environment, I think it builds great character.

When the confidence builds it is easier for the player to come into the next game.

You can look back on a lot of things and things that could have been changed, but ultimately those things make you who you are. It builds character. I'm OK with that.

Racism built me into a person that was set up to be self-destructive.

This is the America we know because we built it.

I spent a long time working in restaurants and making no money. It was very character-building, but I think it could have been built in a shorter time.

I'm an athlete. I'm strong. I'm tough. And that's how women should be. That's how they should be built.

I can't change a light bulb.

I'd go at anyone. I took all of my brothers' bull. It made me who I am.

If there was ever a true emotion of a Chicago Bull, Derrick Rose embodies it. Because he is Chicago. That kid will do anything for the city of Chicago.

Since I was growing up, I was always the younger one playing with older guys. They called me Young Bull and that just stuck.