Quotes About Resilience

I was born into long odds. I know what the David versus Goliath story is. My life has been that.

From the vertigo, I found out how far I can push myself physically and also mentally.

The vertigo is a difficult thing: it just comes and goes whenever it pleases. I wasn't expecting it. I've had it before, and there have been years between stretches, and unfortunately it happened at the U.S. Open, and that knocked me off my feet.

I'm trying to adapt - they say you have to adapt to vertigo.

I have been battling vertigo for a long time. It's something that I deal with on a daily basis.

I am able to get up and dust myself off and keep moving forward. I'm very stubborn.

Frustration, although quite painful at times, is a very positive and essential part of success.

We have our own culture, our own community. A lot of people don't realize that. They just assume that deaf people are very unfortunate, very disabled, but no.

I'm a very positive thinker, and I think that is what helps me the most in difficult moments.

I suppose being fierce is a very good thing, and a very cool thing. But more than fierce, I think I'm a strong person and a strong individual. And that's what I take with me every day.

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.

The point about hope is that it is something that occurs in very dark moments. It is like a flame in the darkness; it isn't like a confidence and a promise.

The element of fire to me is very powerful because of what it symbolizes, how it symbolizes a strength. It symbolizes something that's unstoppable. You can't get through it, you know.

It's very corny, 'never give up' - but it's just a great quote that I always follow.

Cricket is very simple... you play till you can sustain.

I've always been very determined. I don't get easily discouraged.

When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance.

The very important thing you should have is patience.

Having concrete, strong thoughts is very important.

I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can't be done. I deem that the very best time to make the effort.

I am not lost. I am very much alive.

I had a rough childhood coming up, and I just took all that negative energy and made it very positive for myself to drive me. I'm a very driven person. I have passion that almost scares people, just to be successful and make it no matter what.

I really believe I'm no different from anyone else. I just had a few challenges I had to learn from at a very early age.

I know that I'm not the fastest or the strongest or the best in the air, so from a very early age, I had to be positionally sound, or I was going to get beat. So you just kind of learn as you grow.