Quotes About Resilience

Maybe you're a little selfish that day; maybe you want something, and it can't happen, but you don't want to take no for an answer. Everybody has those moments, and you just have to be okay with being open and showing it.

Books have shown me horror and beauty.

Black women's lives have never been shown any value in America.

For years now boxing and MMA have shown it's not the size of the guy in the fight.

I've always shied away from 'Where are they now?' shows, because I've been lucky enough to keep working, and people know where I am.

In this league you have to throw sidearm sometimes; you're going to have to drop your arm, move while shuffling your feet. You're never going to be set.

I wake up every day and think everything sure is awful, but then I ask the Lord what I can do to make it better.

Nobody has had more awful things written about them than me.

Losing has to be awful. You can never get used to losing. That's one of the biggest downfalls to a lot of teams.

I'm not afraid of what people say about me. I don't care if people say, 'You're an awful person.'

It's OK to fail once in awhile.

I've always done well with pressure, always done well with awkward situations.

I hate letting goals in, and some of them have come in a bit of an awkward manner.

So many things in my life have gone awry.

Women are strong. We have babies. We do it all.

If anybody knows how to be friends, it's black women. We have been enslaved and had to care for each other and each other's babies and pick each other up in so many powerful ways. We know to take care of each other, we know how to be friends.

I think they've been baby bummers.

Do not allow setbacks to set you back.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Sometimes you fall down, but you have to pick yourself back up.

Actors are smart. They have to feel safe enough to fall and to get back up. My job is to make sure they don't get hurt.

It's important to keep getting back up. It's part of the game.

I don't know how to back up.

I fail at things all the time. I'm always being told no. I just get back up and try again.