Quotes About Resilience

My mom obviously had a problem.

Obviously, there's times in your career when people doubt you.

When you're an undrafted guy, it's hard because... you're not going to have the first- or second-team reps all the time, obviously.

Obviously my last two years in the NFL were not much fun at all.

You deal with what comes to you. If it's something you don't like, you deal with it the best you can. If it's something that you love, you rise to the occasion.

Knowing that you have something you have to deal with, rising to the occasion, builds character.

On one occasion I had to sleep on a stretcher balanced on two kitchen chairs. It wasn't glamorous.

Except for the occasional heart attack, I never felt better.

There's the occasional script that just hammers you, that you can't shower off.

To be successful at anything, you need the right to fail, not just occasionally.

What I do with my life is of my own doing. I live it the best way I can. I've been criticized on many, many occasions, because of - acquaintances, and what have you.

I have probably been very close to a complete breakdown on numerous occasions.

There were so many occasions when I wasn't around for my kids or my husband. But we learnt to work around it.

I've been homeless on a few occasions.

As any fighter does, we all go down. Very few get up. I've done it on multiple occasions.

During earlier occasions, I was fighting big parties - the BJP, Congress and BSP - and had also to face factional fight within the SP. I had to take on Sonia Gandhi, Mayawati and Azam Khan. I did have the support of Mulayam Singh Yadav though.

On numerous different occasions I have had people tell me that I am only booked because of my dad, because of who I was dating, or any other exceptions other than my hard work, so in my mind I wanted to put in the extra hours in the ring.

I've come second twice and I've played golf capable of winning the Masters on both of those occasions. I wasn't really back-dooring my way into a second place, I was right there playing great golf against guys playing their best golf.

The problem is not the occupation, but how people deal with it.

France was an occupied country, a country that surrendered and was left without the right to choose.

Sometimes all you have left to win with is the knowledge of why you're taking the beating and the realization that nobody else is going to save you from it.

dry channel, so I could enliven its stony remains

No heart is so hard as the timid heart.

Tough guys don't dance. You had better believe it.