Quotes About Resilience

This game is not designed for the defense to have it easy, so if I am gonna favor one side, I'll favor the offense because I want the defense being put under as much stress as possible.

Insinuations that Ahmed Nur Said Elmi is my brother are absurd and offensive.

There's absolutely nothing anyone can say about my mother or myself or my step-father that we haven't heard before. You'd have to be a Dickens or a Nabakov to come up with something really offensive.

I don't find the whole 'cougar' word that offensive.

Until that moment comes when the ball comes to me every time, I have to find a way to be effective with offensive rebounds, play hard defense, blocking shots.

If your best offensive players go down, all you can do is hang on.

Just play hard, compete, energy, hit the offensive glass.

They say baseball's a game of failure. Well, that's only true on the offensive side.

I can have an off-night on the offensive end, but I should never have an off-night on defense.

I was depressed about the roles that were on offer, so I had to make my own stories.

Not everyone is going to like what you do or what you have to offer; however, if you can't see yourself doing anything else, and you have the drive and ambition, get the training and go for it.

We're living in a different world now in terms of employee needs, and companies have to offer alternative methods for getting the work done. Even under the most difficult circumstances you can have creative flexibility.

One of the biggest motivations for me with writing my books is to offer girls some escapism, especially girls who really need it, like I did.

The seasoned woman is going to offer a more seasoned character.

Our educational system should make the Filipino fit not just for whatever jobs happen to be on offer today, but also for whatever economic challenge life will throw in their way.

Too many of my heroes have been cut down, but do I want security guards? No. I've been offered them in the past. But the more you present yourself as someone afraid of being attacked, the more people see you as someone to attack.

Right before 'The Bourne Identity' came out, I hadn't been offered a movie in a year.

I keep getting offered these women-with-a-disease things.

Call it my bad luck or whatever it is, after 'Pyaar Impossible,' people were offering me nonsense films. I was offered roles of no consequence.

If nature offers no home, then we must make a home one way or another. The only question is how.

After acting in a critically acclaimed film like 'Kaaka Muttai,' I didn't get any offers for more than a year.

Offers from Madrid or Barca will come when they come, but my mentality is to continue growing as a player.

At a certain point, we need to figure out how to reward those who choose a path that offers, often, almost no reward.

I believe in accepting whatever life offers with a laugh. So if things are dark and terrible, I try to find the funny side to it. Probably that's why I gravitate towards comedy.