Quotes About Resilience

They disallowed this and disallowed that, and now I can't even get my head above water!

To live abroad you have to grow up quickly.

I do love my dad, we have a great relationship now but there were years when he was absent and it was my mum that raised me.

I look back on how I was as a child, I had a wonderful mom and an absent father, but I still had a great childhood.

I can tell you that my family in the absolute worst of times has seen the absolute best in people. And, that has given us more strength than could ever imagine.

That's what kept us going - a sense of absurdity, rather than humor.

I have been racially abused by fans and players, but sometimes it's just a way to get under your skin.

I was an abused kid.

If you're different in any way at school,then you're going to get a bit of abuse. You learn to deal with it in a way where people don't come back at you again.

When I was a kid, it was very common to go places and get racially abused, starting from age six all the way up until you got into the first team.

It was so normal for me to have racial abuse spat at me and then when I moved to Dunfermline, there were a group of boys who made up a racist social media page geared at me.

I spend a lot of time on social media and people ask me if the abuse I get is upsetting, but working in comedy has built up my skin - I'm used to hecklers.

I grew up in a terrible home of abuse and I didn't realize I was in a home of abuse.

The truth is, for many young people, the changing schools or starting a new academic year is really difficult to deal with.

I have come to terms with a lot of things, because, when all's said and done, there's really very little one can do about a lot of things. You just accept them. The point is you just have to keep on working and you just have to keep on living.

I learned long ago to accept the fact that not everything I create will see the light of day.

Going 3-13 is not acceptable.

I never accepted the idea that I was all through. I guess no person who has once been a star can do that, ever.

I'm not accepting of whiners.

I'm not at the point of accepting it yet - but I will have to come to the point of accepting that people will doubt me forever.

If you happen to be in an environment where people are not accepting of who you are, you just need to know that's not always the way it will be.

When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.

It's been my dream to race in F1 since I was eight. I don't see why that should change just because I've changed. It's a big challenge but I like to push myself. The accident has toughened me up and made me realise what's important. It's spurred me on to get to F1.

I had bought some land in Unnao with the money I got after the accident. I plan to build a sports academy for the disabled there.