Quotes About Resilience

I'm old school, man. I think, if you want to be the best, then beat the best guys.

I feel like my old self on the ice.

Well, that's the old story I heard about the Jackie Chan films. That, like, Jackie Chan will just keep going and when crew members drop he just replaces them. I don't know if that's true but after having worked in Japan I believe it might be true.

We do need a return to individual integrity, self-reliance, and old-fashioned gumption. We really do.

I'm an old-fashioned player, an old-school player who will foul you and foul you hard.

My father wasn't around when I was a kid, and I used to always say, 'Why me? Why don't I have a father? Why isn't he around? Why did he leave my mother?' But as I got older I looked deeper and thought, 'I don't know what my father was going through, but if he was around all the time, would I be who I am today?'

Getting older is hard.

I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can't get bitter, we can't get jaded.

When I got older, it got harder because when kids get older, they get meaner, so I went through a lot of bullying and people calling me, like, 'zebra' or 'cow,' so it was really hard growing up.

I had an older brother that would beat me in everything, and then he would rub my nose in it, and that made me work even harder.

My real story is this: I am the citizen daughter of immigrant parents who were deported when I was 14. My older brother was also deported.

I had people when I was younger trying to feel me up. Older men. I just told them to get lost.

I think everything that played a part in my life growing up is in my music. Being homeless, living in shelters, dealing with over-aged, older men that hit on me... all that is in the music.

Fear is a huge thing for older people.

When you play with the older people it helps you mentally, because they're bigger and stronger than you. You have to live up to that.

When I was playing with ADO Den Hag in the youth teams at that time I was quite strong because I was used to older people.

African Americans are one of the oldest ethnic groups in this country. We been here since the beginning. Before the beginning.

I have the oldest whiplash in the business.

I remember, I was at the house with my oldest son and I got that call from Johnny Ace. You know that call. Johnny was the guy that hired me, fired me and hired me back, which was kind of cool. But I was just fired, everything stopped, my whole world stopped.

I've never felt that I was less of an athlete or not accomplished athletically because I didn't win an Olympic medal. It's definitely something I would have liked to have added to my resume, but at the same time I think I can look back at my athletic career and feel that I was one of the best.

Olympic athletes have to find a job right after they're done competing.

It was not about the guy who could jump the furthest; it was about the guy who could jump the furthest on that particular day in the worst conditions of any Olympic long jump final.

I said back in 2010 when I was rubbish at the European championships, 'If I never win an omnium until 2012, I don't care.' I then won Olympic gold.

I feel like the thing that motivates me is not making the Olympic team. If I'm having a rough day, I think about how bad I want it.