Quotes About Resilience

As I grow older and I don't run so fast, I'm not so eager to get myself in situations where I'm going to have to run.

Some of the best cricketers in the world were very quiet on the field but came across in a way that made it very hard to sledge them. It went in one ear and out the other.

Earlier I used to be a shy girl.

If you can play the game later in your career very similar to how you played earlier in your career, then it bodes well for you to play longer and play better longer.

God knows I tried to make it earlier in life, but with all due respect to myself, nothing I ever did was any good.

Let me put it this way, the earliest memory I have of my dad, I think I got beat up by some kids and he looked at me and said, 'hey, you get in a fight, you win. I don't care if you have to pick up a rock or a stick, you win.' That's my earliest memory of my dad.

I can say, out of my whole life, my dad left the situation at an early age for me; he left. But my mum turned her back on me.

In my early days, I auditioned a lot. Mostly, I didn't get anywhere.

The early days were really difficult because it was constant no's, I didn't have an agent. I always knew that I had something to offer, but it just felt like I could never get someone to give me a chance.

Everything I've gotten, I've had to work twice as hard to earn.

One year was so bad for me and my wife that we were going to have to sell our house until Elaine decided to change career and earn some money.

There's a lot of crazy stuff in this league, and you got to go out and you got to earn your role out every year.

I grew from nothing. I have been through everything and I have earned it.

Unless I try, I'm never really going to be at ease with myself.

I'm kind of a low-tempered kind of guy, so I ease my way one game at a time.

I'm the easiest person to make fun of.

Growing up in Paterson wasn't the easiest thing.

I don't give up easily.

I dont get ruffled easily.

Nothing comes easily for me.

I'm a guy that's all about not trying to take the easy way out or get out of things too early.

Great opportunities can be and have been created during tough economic times.

You can't have Alan Partridge as Eddie the Eagle!

When you stop adapting, you lose your edge and you can only go down.