Quotes About Resilience

Nothing, for the most part, surprises me anymore.

I kick and punch quite hard, and it surprises people.

Nothing surprises me anymore in the NFL.

I'm in politics. I'm in government, so nothing surprises me.

Nothing surprises me about Berry Gordy.

So, we know that when the going gets tough, the tough get going. I still believe that is the good thing about Nigerian players. We can always spring up so many surprises.

We all know that I am not a big fan of surprises, and for whatever reason my life seems to be full of them.

Surprising people is the key to career longevity for someone like me.

Illness can make us behave in the most surprising ways.

It's surprising how much hate mail I don't get.

I lost a lot. It was almost like I was a retired player where I lost all of my athleticism. I lost everything. Being able to get it back, step by step, little bit at a time, it was like surprising myself.

Every night is not going to be your night, I understand that. But I learned how to impact the game other ways and I think my defense, my playmaking ability is surprising a lot of people.

Filming 'The Road to Riches' was surprisingly difficult for me. I learned that going back to career successes and failures can be emotionally exhausting as you are forced to revisit the euphoric highs and painful lows in high speed.

Rugby has surprisingly helped me a lot as an astronaut and when I'm training in the space suit.

I was raised by boys. I can hold my own, I can fight, and I love horror movies - simply for the scare factor and the surrealism.

You should never surrender, never give up.

At some point, you just learn to surrender to your path.

We never quit. My mom instilled that attitude in us, that never quit, never surrender.

My golf is woeful but I will never surrender.

We both agreed that Stalin was determined to hold out against the Germans. He told us he'd never let them get to Moscow. But if he was wrong, they'd go back to the Urals and fight. They'd never surrender.

Sometimes female characters start out as the wife or girlfriend, but then I realize, 'No, she's the book,' and she becomes a main character. I surrender the book to her.

The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

It is part of our human nature to want to be liked. It is part of our human nature to worry about what others think of us. It is an attribute of greatness and of American exceptionalism to not surrender to our nature, but to be guided by an inner calling to persevere and to prevail, no matter the personal cost.

I don't fold and surrender for nobody. That's just a fact.