Quotes About Resilience

I was just dreaming, and if, if I'd written the book and nobody wanted it, I would have put it in the drawer and said, 'Well, I did that.'

Growing up in Iowa I could have had it a lot worse. My family was more worried about my education and my health than the fact that I wore my sister's dresses.

I'm not afraid of Wolfsburg and I know my dressing room is not.

I've been double-teamed my whole life. I know when a double team's coming. I know what side the guy's coming from. I know how to dribble out of it.

Okay, I've admitted to drinking too much. Okay, so I'm dealing with it.

I tried to give up drugs by drinking.

I just see myself as a driver. The disability plays a part but I don't see myself as disabled.

As a driver, you have to accept that some years are more challenging than others. That's part of the game.

Any time that you're criticised, it drives you on, and you try to prove people wrong.

Even in the face of the greatest adversity, the key is to never lose hope, never lose sense of the dream that drives you.

Fear drives you a lot harder than success does.

Martina's gone with people who don't want to be out, and it drives her crazy because she'd rather be open.

Life is going to hit you some line drives, and sometimes you'll have to think fast. However, it's better to think first than to think fast.

If you don't feel bad when you play bad, you don't need to be playing this game. That's the feeling that drives you to success.

I guess you can say that my unwillingness to accept failure is what drives my success.

I feel every time I score I prove people wrong. People doubt me all the time. They do that to all players but for me it's, 'He's too slow, he's too old.' It annoys those people every time I score and it drives me on.

Fear of failure always drives me.

I knew from the first time I put my hand on the barre at the age of eight that dancing was all I wanted to do and that it was what I was going to do, and nothing was going to stop me. That has always been the driving force in my life. It is who I am.

People always ask me what I did when things went wrong on stage with AC/DC. Nothing ever went wrong. I might drop a drum stick, maybe, but that was about the only thing.

I spent a whole year in 'Spamalot' and didn't have one drop of alcohol.

That's what my life has been all about: Every time I get dropped, I come back and win.

I've been dropped. You get up, and you win the fight.

When I got dropped, no one really wanted to work with me... I felt like my career was over and I didn't really know what to do.

I've been hurt in fights. I've been dropped.