Quotes About Resilience

People will want to say this or that about you, but take it with a pinch of salt.

People are going to write things about you, but you have to take the good with the bad, so you shouldn't take it very seriously. If you take it to heart, it'll get very difficult to deal with. So, just take it with a pinch of salt.

Even at 30 or 40, if something doesn't do well, it still hurts. If I pinch someone, the pain is going to be the same whether the person is young or old.

The negativity will always be there. I think that's for any actress or actor. But I think you've got to take it with a pinch of salt.

I pinch myself every day anyway. Everyone knows the road I have had in the game and how I have managed to get myself to where I am today.

I'll fight like a wildcat until they nail the lid of my pine box down on me.

I was at the pinnacle of my career one day and the next day I was put out to pasture. I felt like a race horse with a broken leg.

After you ride a roller coaster that's been going up for a year and a half, and you reach the pinnacle and then dive straight down with no gradual decline, it's a little disorienting. I didn't know how to take losing.

You base your actions on a projected ending, which you actually don't know. However, when you reach the crucial point, and the pinnacle event doesn't occur, you just need to go on, and something else will happen.

My earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade.

The first time I ever beat my brother was the end of my junior year. At the end of the match, he tried to throw me, and I took him to his back and pinned him. Instead of simply losing, he bit me in the chest.

Pioneer women were very tough - they had to be, because the men go off for long periods of time, and the women would have to be able to protect themselves and their homes.

There is so much to do in my house, in every little corner. It's just like anybody, it's like one step at a time. I try to decorate one space and a pipe breaks or whatever - you know how it is.

Pressure busts pipes, and pressure can get to some people, and I don't let it get to me. And that's how I don't let it get to me is because, honestly, I just don't believe in it.

Pirates, me hearties, are the Patronus of the freelancer.

I worked in the pit for more than 20 years and never had a serious injury.

I don't need a huge pit bull to tell me I'm tough.

David Silva is a great player, and also, off the pitch, he's a great lad.

People don't see the determination behind getting on the pitch every week.

I don't fear hostile atmospheres. In fact, that added pressure serves as an incentive for me to give my very best performance on the pitch.

The measure of a man's life is how he copes with the terrible wall of fear.

You get into a situation where your back's up against the wall and you don't have any option but to go out swinging, so you might as well go for it.

Anytime you play basketball and your backs are to the wall, you have to come out and play aggressive.

I don't remember myself to be a forefront fighter, but when pushed to a point with a wall behind me, there is only one way forward. Later you can call it a Rambo syndrome, but I never regret it, as it comes naturally to me, and in my mind, that is the only way.