Quotes About Resilience

Baseball and malaria keep coming back.

Baseball wasn't easy for me.

In baseball, there's always the next day.

In football, however well you think you are doing, however well your life is going, there is always a mugger there lurking in the shadows to bash you over the head when you least expect it.

A lot of people bash me, but at the end of the day they don't know how much I have.

I was very lucky that I didn't end up a basket case.

It's hard getting the rhythm when you're not seeing the ball go through the basket.

My days shouldn't be hard because I'm doing what I'm doing and that's playing basketball.

I've played a lot of basketball during my life - and it's not always been good.

My own basketball background was ripping up my ACL in a lawyer's league.

I tore my ACL playing basketball.

With 'Love And Basketball,' every studio turned it down.

I've spent too much of my life being made to feel like there's something wrong with me. And no matter how much support I felt as a basketball player at Baylor, it still doesn't erase all the pain I felt there.

You see us on the court, you see us out there balling, and there's so much more to the sport than just being a basketball player.

I'm just a basketball player. Regardless of the situation, I'm going to continue to work hard and play my game.

Sometimes, you tend to hold back, maybe because you have lost a few wickets or something. But when I bat, I'm never shy of doing what my mind says.

I think that's one of the things you start learning from being hot and playing every day at the beginning, you know. The league, they made their adjustments and their change to you, the way they pitch you, the way they attack you, and just learning and learning from that and making the adjustments the very next at bat or the very next pitch.

Your bat's not always going to be there.

After getting dropped from the Australian team, for me it was always just about being the team, it doesn't matter where I bat.

You know I could get hit with a baseball bat and it don't mean nothing.

I am very happy. And also, I want to come out to bat in this kind of tough situation when everybody in the dressing room is nervous.

I got beat up sometimes in the girls' bathroom.

I got called a boy all the time. Going into the bathroom, I still get the shocked look, like, 'Are you supposed to be in here?' But I'm so used to it now, I'm just like, 'I'm a girl, I'm in the right bathroom.'

I don't know about you, but I certainly feel so battered by seeing people wearing masks. It's all we hear, all we talk about, so that actually when you watch TV, the last thing you want to see all the time is people wearing masks.