Quotes About Resilience

Being an Olympic athlete doesn't change who you are as a person.

Calzaghe and Mayweather both got booed in the early part of their careers and look where they are now. I'm used to it, though, in the Olympic final I got booed by the Cubans and the Chinese so I'm ready to deal with it, do what I do and beat what is in front of me.

I'd love to be in the Olympics and face Felix Savon again. But if I can't, I'll make the best of it. Life ain't over.

My biggest loss was the Olympics. I just can't forget losing. I never will.

The Olympics must be my curse or something.

The majority of people who get in the sport of gymnastics do not go to the Olympics or get a Division 1 scholarship, but it doesn't mean that they can't get something positive from the sport.

I damaged my hamstring at the London Olympics and had to stop training for five months. At times, I thought my career was over.

It's a beautiful thing to be involved with the Special Olympics.

One thing I learned from the '88 Olympics: It's not a question of if they can screw you over: it's a question of if they will. It's not the gold medal they took away from me. The medal doesn't mean anything. It's that they said I lost. That experience is well and alive in my mind.

On the street, I'll hear, 'You made the Olympics for me,' or 'I love what you represented.' Only occasionally is it, 'You were a flop, an also-ran, a loser.'

When I participated in Rio Olympics in 2016, I failed to grab a medal. But it was a learning experience.

I tried out for the London Olympics, missed it by a little bit, gave it away for a while, and wasn't sure I wanted to wait for another four years.

Being injured has harmed me on and off the field in a lot of ways.

In any game, you have to work to stay in it, especially away against a good team like Southampton. It's a fantastic club and one I've said on a few occasions Cardiff City would do well to emulate, both on and off the field.

People are gonna like who they like, there's nothing you can do about it. Just go out there, do what you do best, play your game and try to become a better person on and off the court.

At the end of the day, everything I've been through on and off the court, I'm the only common denominator.

Football helped me build confidence on and off the field and taught me to grow through moments of success and disappointment.

Throughout my life of having Crohn's, I've been on and off prednisone when other stuff was not working.

You have to be prepared for situations on and off the field, and everything that happens within the world of football. It's difficult for players at big clubs to deal with these things.

The fans have always helped me get through good things and bad things on and off the golf course.

I've worked with horses on and off most of my life, but literally 'on and off' - flipping on them and falling off them.

On the contrary, woman is the best equipped fighting machine that ever went to battle.

I'm an emotional gangster. I cry once every month.

Once you've wrestled, everything else in life is easy.