Quotes About Resilience

Dan Henderson has been a fighter for a long time, and he's been a champion in many different organizations.

I was leaving probably one of the greatest organizations in hte world at that time for what was probably one of the least like, and, by God, this is America.

I am lucky to have had an attentive, curious and loving dad and heart-smart, down-to-earth, gifted mother. They changed the outlooks of their own lives and have never forgotten the people and organizations that helped them dream bigger than their circumstances should have allowed.

One thing the Giants are great at is pretty much leaving you alone and working with what you have. A lot of organizations might try to change guys right away. Not the Giants.

Unfortunately, I've been around a lot of organizations over my 14-year career that have dealt with off-field issues.

All organizations have great fighters.

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

You know, when it was done originally, they always had to fight to keep it going at the end of each season. Now, The Odd Couple has become part of our language and culture.

I come from the lower middle class, originally. We didn't have anything.

You know, I think I did originally have some sort of idea of maybe a Where Eagles Dare kind of mission against impossible odds, but it really sort of died before I had a chance to really go anywhere with it, and then just doing the book was out of the question.

I suppose I am a bit of rough. I'm originally from Coolock: I'm rough around the edges.

'I'm a Celebrity' was so much harder than I originally thought. Until you are in the jungle, you don't really know what you're in for.

I'm originally from jiu-jitsu.

The most interesting place I've gone on location was New Orleans.

I needed New Orleans so badly back in 2006, just somebody to believe in me, somebody to care about me.

For a long time a lot of people thought New Orleans wasn't a safe place and that it was very ratchet.

The inconveniences we faced within this state are minor compared to... New Orleans.

The people of New Orleans have gotten to rock bottom. And the only way out in my mind is for them to really understand it, and then to really choose to get better.

People from New Orleans are extremely prideful.

I grew up within New Orleans; my greatest concern is rising water. But I think life is a process of moving items from the 'scared of' to the 'not scared of' list.

New Orleans is like my blood; it's not going anywhere. And then I just take different things that I've learned over the years and add them to what I'm doing with the natural New Orleans sound.

I need New Orleans. And New Orleans needs me.

At the end of the day, I'm a New Orleans musician. Whatever that means.

New Orleans is a great place, a place of celebration. But on the other hand, there's a reality to it, there's violence, there's misguided youth.