Quotes About Resilience

When I was growing up, the honor role kids were picked on by the jocks. And those kids said, 'You know, 15 years from now, I'm going to be their boss and own them.'

I made many mistakes and I also learnt a lot of lessons. Whatever I picked up from my mistakes is helping me a lot ever since.

A group of girls didn't like me and picked on me on a daily basis.

When I was 7, we moved to Manasquan, where I picked up the game of basketball.

I thought not getting picked in the first round was the end of the world.

Look at Willis McGahee. Perfect example. Totally shredded knee. Comes back and gets picked in the first round. It's pretty hard to have a career-ender, unless I have a neck thing. But either way, I know I'm insured.

Being angry is like picking up a knife with no handle: it is self-harming.

I think I'm one of life's copers. And picking myself up and dusting myself off and starting all over again is one of my mottoes, actually.

I definitely like taking the dark horse approach and picking people you should not be getting behind, and you figure out a way to get behind them.

You eventually get used to looking at girls picking their leotards out of their bums and that sort of stuff.

I was never very good at picking cotton, and then I only made fifty cents or $1 a day. People would work for $1 a day during the Depression. So we would get $2 for playing music and just having fun. I think that as a result of that it was not just the money, but we enjoyed doing it.

As an athlete, you sort of just win every day. Because you're going to sometimes lose every day. And so you just keep picking yourself up and going forward.

I'm not picking up my phone and calling anyone for employment.

As a kid, falling was embarrassing. As I got older, I got used to falling and picking myself back up. There's not a sense of failure. It's of disappointment. You train so hard to not make mistakes. When you do, you're learning from that. How do I improve? How do I get better for the next time? Through every failure, there's something to be learned.

Constantly getting knocked down and picking myself back up, the relationships I've been able to form with all the different people in the different cities, I wouldn't trade it for anything.

At the end of the day, not everyone's going to like what you do. There's always going to be that one person, or many people, who are going to keep on nagging at you and picking on every little thing that you do.

I know what it's like to have a No. 1 pick and having everybody picking at him all of the time.

Everything in life is overcoming objectives. I don't care if you're picking up a woman in a bar or trying to jump a rocket over a river.

My dad taught me very early in life that whenever a child learns to walk, he falls a lot of times, but then he picks himself up and learns to walk like a man, and that is something which is a motto in life as well. You gotta pick yourself up, and you gotta walk, and you gotta walk strong.

I can't go back and change how many tackles I had, how many picks. What I've done is what I've done.

There aren't a lot of second chances for second-round picks.

I pride myself on setting tough picks and going out there and being physical. And on the defensive end, players drive the lane, I'm either going to try to take a charge on you or foul you pretty hard.

I went undrafted, played summer league with the Heat. I got to training camp three weeks straight and I didn't make a shot, whether live or pickup, coach in the gym or not.

I'm pretty tough and picky when it comes to actors that I admire.