Quotes About Resilience

I think my worst enemy was myself. It's like I've been in my own way more than anybody else has been.

My biggest enemy has been my surgeries.

My biggest enemy has been my body.

I think I've finally, after 72 years, gotten used to my voice, and it sounds like a friend now instead of an enemy.

I'm not gonna call myself the little engine that could because I'm 5'10 and I'm far from little - I'm the little engine that roared.

I left my country because I was forced to, and I do not think that I am going to lose my language because I live in England.

I like English football so much - it is very strong.

I love the English spirit because when I was a player, I was an Englishman: I was fighting, and you had to kill me if you wanted to win.

I think just because you're a mom, it doesn't negate - if anything, you're probably more enhanced - that you're a woman trying to find your place in the world.

I'd rather say that had the going not been tough, perhaps it wouldn't have been as enjoyable.

For some reason, the more the pressure comes on, the more enjoyable it gets.

At the start, when I got to nearly 12 years old, I actually nearly gave up football. I wasn't enjoying it.

Now I don't have a coach; I'm just by myself. I'm enjoying this change, and I hope it will help my game.

I kind of almost get enjoyment out of adversity in life.

For people who feel things in an enormous way, it's pretty hard to live in this world.

I know what it's like to have to put back food at the checkout line because you don't have enough money and those kinds of things.

For the fans out in public, I don't make enough money to not fight.

You have enough people against you... be for yourself.

I do not think that everybody has to struggle. But to probably at least half of the people, it never seems to enter their minds that they might be engaged in a struggle or that there might be something to struggle with.

You come on my course and enter my world - I don't care who you are or where you're from - you're a number until you prove yourself otherwise.

Even before I entered the industry, my parents always told me never let success get to your head and failure to your heart.

Adversity is the mother of enterprise.

I think any entertainer just sort of goes along with whatever comes along.

The entertainment industry is not always easy. I really needed to decide I can do this, and I will do this for the rest of my life.