Quotes About Resilience

I tell my team you have to aim for success, but assume failure.

I can see how people would just assume I am a no-nonsense kind of girl, you know? But the truth is, it's not who I am. But when I need to be, I can be tough.

People associate strength with physical, and that's the wrong assumption. You're as strong as your mind is.

I was so surprised, astonished, when I lost my mind, because I didn't think that I ever would. I assumed I would always be just fine.

Spoiler alert: I did not become an astronaut.

I ate ants. They weren't that bad.

We were definitely not rich, but we were not poor. My mum always came home from work and did everything so that we ate well.

I was standing in the street with people walking past me and I could feel my face evaporating. I thought I was on fire as the acid ate at my skin.

No other athlete in any sport has ever had to go through what I have to.

I'm an athlete. I go out there and fight my heart out.

I'm not the best athlete.

I wasn't a great athlete.

People still think I'm a bit of a buffoon - not really an athlete.

As athletes, you always know that mistakes happen, and not everyone is perfect, and you can't be perfect.

I know I'm not the only guy that's had problems in life. And it seems to me that a lot of athletes shy away from talking about things that may have happened to them or their families.

When things are tough, French athletes tend to pull out great performances.

Athletes are moved - human beings are moved - by challenges.

We don't need any help - the athletes and the coach don't want any help to win.

I've not been the most athletic person.

When you play against Athletic, you know there is no easy ball.

I did not even know what athletics was; the Army taught me everything.

I grew up working class in Atlanta.

When we started Allman Brothers, Atlantic Records kept telling us there was no way it was going anywhere.

I try really hard not to be attached to success.