Quotes About Resilience

The 1980s were tough for most of Britain, but nowhere more so than Tottenham.

We don't mind if people think we've come from nowhere. Because once they've become fans, they'll delve deeper in and will be surprised to find we've been around awhile and that we've had a lot of experience doing this.

Flopping shouldn't get you nowhere.

The great thing about Glasgow is that if there's a nuclear attack it'll look exactly the same afterwards.

I would eat fruitcake if there'd been a nuclear war and I'd run out of canned goods.

I'm numb to it now. If I'm racially abused out there, I'm abused. Nothing is going to change. I just get on with it. It shouldn't be like that but it is.

You can only get hurt so much before you get numb.

In real life, I don't cry too easily. I go numb.

I was fully burnt out - and in some ways I think that was good, because I was just fully numb.

The more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.

I wrestled Jordan Burroughs two times - Jordan Burroughs had a hell of a time trying to take me down. I stopped his double leg numerous times. And he also, probably, fractured my sternum - from me trying to stop him.

I have become like a rhinoceros - thick-skinned - all the gossip about my numerous affairs does not bother me anymore.

You know who you are. If my mother is a nun and someone comes up to me and they go, 'Your mother is a prostitute.' It is not going to bother me, because I know my mother is a nun, she's not a prostitute.

As strong as we are, we have our moments. My mama is an African woman who had four kids and was a nurse for 25 years, and she had her moments. I've seen her cry.

You can have a career and kids who love you. But you have to nurture yourself and find a way to be fulfilled so you're not resentful.

Drama school was a lifeline for me, it saved me. I found it very nurturing - I just clung on.

I'd retired for about six or seven years. Coming back to the business, I found that I was sort of not quite a has-been, and it wasn't a new career, it was just kind of difficult to crack the nut, so to speak.

When I got divorced, I knew I needed to step it up, so I taught nutrition at a college, modeled, and built my dietitian practice all over Canada.

I bought a bar because we got banned from playing everywhere else. We were too nuts, and everyone was scared of us. It was Des Moines, Iowa, remember.

I think being a little nuts is helpful.

I'm nuts, I'm rich, and boy, do I love a fight!

You never know when your last day gig is, and if you spend your life thinking about it, you'll drive yourself nuts. But I try not to foster or exhibit any desperation.

There is no way I could've been so durable playing in the Western Conference. The travel is nuts.

And Seaman, just like a falling oak, manages to change direction.