Quotes About Resilience

We're the guys who, if someone says you really shouldn't do an episode making fun of Scientologists, we say, 'Whatever.' Someone says, 'They might come try to burn your house down,' we say, 'We'll just get another one.'

I'm not one of those people who is scared, like, 'Ooooh, I'm going to burn out.'

My skin burned for 22 hours after I was pepper-sprayed.

I'm lucky. It's okay that success has come later to me, because I might have burned up if it had happened earlier.

I try to keep that fire burning inside of me.

When you go through things like burnout you learn what to do and what not to do in the future.

I feel like Rio 2016 was my worst performance, and really my burnout.

It's okay to be burnt out.

I live in a bubble, but there have been times when my bubble has been burst.

My brother-in-law skipped work to get me to training. Our family get us through. We'd get the train, a bus and sometimes even walk to training.

Once I was 13 and on the bus with me mate Mary when we passed this little bit of green where all the winos used to go and it was a little bit embarrassing because I saw me dad there amongst them all. When it was bad, it was very bad.

I would train every day after school from 3.30pm until 5.30pm and then I had to take three buses to get home, which would take at least two hours.

I find the business world hard.

People don't know that there were very successful black businessmen in the years of apartheid.

I managed Hewlett Packard through the worst technology downturn in 25 years, the dotcom bust.

'Rock Or Bust' is a thing we've always done.

If someone has your arms around you, I'm not going to sit there and be like, 'OK, this is fine.' I'm going to try to bust out of it and get in position to score a goal.

My first WPS season was a bust.

In one week, I got hit by a car - it busted through my hand - and my mom got cancer.

Stand up for yourself and fight for your right to be the artist that you want to be. There's plenty of pressure from outside; people tell you how to dress and how to sing or what to sing, but I always felt like if I'm going to fail or succeed, I want to do it on my own terms.

I've failed way more than I've succeeded.

In my career quite a few people have tried to force me out, but so far no one has succeeded.

Years of imprisoning and beheading writers never succeeded in shutting them out. However, placing them in the heart of a market and rewarding them with a lot of commercial success, has.

If I had the opportunity to speak to a young immigrant girl that just arrived to the U.S. the advice I would have for her would be: ask, speak, search; because there are opportunities out there. And, know that you aren't the only immigrant or the last to come to this country. Many that have come before you have succeeded. It is possible.