Quotes About Resilience

I can't jump the highest. I'm obviously not the biggest, not the strongest.

Sometimes you find your strongest faith in the darkest corners.

One of the hardest parts of this game, and what I don't think people understand, is the mental side of it. They think, 'Oh, he's a big, stronger guy.' But let me tell you, and I believe this without question: It's not always the biggest, strongest, meanest, toughest-looking who gets the job done.

I tell myself, 'You're great, you're powerful, you're strong. You're the greatest, most powerful, strongest fighter in the world.' I acknowledge my greatness. I bow down before my greatness. I inflate myself like that, and then I pop the balloon in a single sentence by saying: You can be beaten.

The lessons I learned from my mother and her friends have guided me through death, birth, loss, love, failure, and achievement, on to a Fulbright scholarship and Harvard Business School. They taught me to believe that anything was possible. They have proven to be the strongest family values I could ever have imagined.

My mom's the strongest, boldest woman I know.

I've wrestled some of the strongest, most athletic guys this business has ever seen. Brock Lesnar, John Cena, Mark Henry, Kane. These guys are phenomenal, phenomenal athletes and powerhouses.

My mom and my grandmother are probably two of the strongest women that I know.

People in football love to talk about mental strength. Well, I'm the strongest dude you're ever going to meet.

My philosophy for football is to be happy with what you're doing. When they say that you're one of the strongest in the world, you need to carry on in the same way as you do when they say that you're dead.

I have had a couple of situations where I wasn't the strongest person in the world.

From what I can see, gone are the days where you can just be the strongest, and that will put you at the top. It takes a little bit more... something else to grab the attention of not just pro wrestling fans but fans in general - to catch their eye.

Los Angeles is the strongest defender of immigrants perhaps of any city in this country.

Mum was the strongest person I knew.

I come from really strong women. My mum is really strong, so that's driven that into me, and my grandma was the strongest woman I've known in my life.

One of my strongest assets is my ability to be calm under pressure.

I'd get beat up a lot early on. I wasn't the strongest, fastest or most skilled guy there, but I had a lot of heart and kept showing up. I just started getting better and by the time I was 13 I was knocking older kids and amateurs out.

I sit around sometimes and think about it, how my mom definitely has to be one of the strongest people in the world.

One of the things I believe in most strongly is the power of a second chance.

I overcame all the casting couches and stood out strongly as an independent woman.

I think I wrote the first draft of 'Nightmare on Elm Street' in '79. No one wanted to buy it. Nobody. I felt very strongly about it, so I stayed with it and kept paying my assistant and everything. At a certain point, I was literally flat broke.

I feel like anything I've ever done, I've been strongly advised not to do.

I feel very strongly we need to do a better job with the rainy day fund.

I think what I reacted to so strongly when I first saw 'Pinocchio' was that I identified with the character so strongly. The movie takes you on a whole journey, a rollercoaster of emotions, and that sometimes means some very scary places. But in the end, it comes out okay.