Quotes About Resilience

If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere. That's why I play. If I made it in New York, you can make it anywhere.

It's good to be anywhere.

War tore my family apart.

I lived in my car in Hollywood for a year, and then it got towed. My... apartment got towed. How... does that happen?

I love women who don't apologize.

I make no apologies.

It's very easy to run a good 200 m. after an appalling shot put.

Apparently, the things I do outside of the football are not taken as positives. I don't care, but sometimes it amazes me.

Women I've known have always been quite strong and confident women. Sure, I've got some friends who aren't so overtly confident, or at least don't appear that way. But when you get to know them, they are very much so.

I applaud my mother now for getting me through that time and making me believe in myself.

Honestly, I feel like pressure is only applied when you feel pressure.

I have a real sense of appreciation of being in the NBA with all that I'd gone through.

People aren't always going to approve or like what you have to say. But as long as you believe in it and are happy, that's all that matters.

I love to read because I know that for a long time ancestors weren't allowed to. I love to write. Because for a long time my people weren't 'allowed' to. So I'm going to write my books, my apps and tell my stories.

If you were a son of mine, I wouldn't want you to be an architect, because it's a tough way to be in the world.

They told me I'd never probably see the front-line area.

Once I argue with somebody, I'm cool; I let it pass. I'm back to playing basketball.

It's pretty awesome to work this hard and come from Arizona.

Armies are not only for offensives.

I always say the dents in a man's armor show he's battle-tested.

Every family has chinks in their armour. I don't know of any family that is perfect.

Look at my arms, you will find no party hand-cuff on them.

We play to win, with the arms that we have.

Working for the screen is almost like being in the Army: you set your mind to it, and you do it.