Quotes About Resilience

So this is why I'm always say happy that somebody mentions Rwanda, because behind Rwanda, we have Africa.

I see courage everywhere I go in Africa.

After you have been incarcerated for so long, whatever story is told in the aftermath is beautiful.

I want to listen to people's stories and find strength in them. There is so much human-caused pain and suffering in the world. I want to honor all those difficult experiences and acknowledge their aftermath. At the same time, I want to really see and love the world around me.

If somebody says my ideas aren't good in the afternoon, I can go to a club that night and try to prove them wrong.

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

A good agent will sometimes need to be a scrapper, and that's the one you want.

Maybe I didn't have the childhood people think you should have, but I still went through the ages; I was still a child.

I lost a lot of homeboys growing up, a lot of family, at early ages.

I had a spate of being run over between the ages of 11 and 13. I was quite a rambunctious child, I had a little moped I used to ride illegally. I got hit by cars three times because I was a very day-dreamy kid.

I grew up as a boy with aggression.

Aggression is something that is a part of me, and I'm never going to take that out of my game.

I used to fight with hate. There's been a lot of aggression in my past growing up and stuff. That's because I was hurt myself.

I think people who go through a lot, they're aggressive.

Guys can't handle my aggressive attack.

I'm aggressive and I'm strong, and guys can't handle it.

Even when I was hurt, I was always the aggressor, no matter what.

My aim is to play as many games as possible and to go out and be one of the 11 players again.

My aim is to make Andhra Pradesh a drought-proof state.

I aim to bring a little pain, and a little roughness to what I do.

My aim was always to come back and prove myself because that is the type of character I am. Whether I get the chance is another thing, but I always want to prove myself.

I've spent my whole life in airports. I don't come home but every two and a half months, which is pretty crazy.

The state of Alabama can take my freedom, the state of Alabama can take my future, but the state of Alabama cannot take my joy.

When I got to Alabama, I was really small.