Quotes About Resilience

Even right in the middle of the worst times, I remember thinking that I would choose this exact life again, that I would do it all again.

Tough love is exactly what it sounds like.

You can't live in a town like Braddock and not know exactly what gunfire sounds like.

When you are not playing, you need to train harder. You need to keep faith. And when you come into the team, you have to do exactly what your team-mates are doing to help the team achieve something.

When people tell me I can't do something, that's what excites me. It makes me perform better.

When things don't work out, it actually excites me even more. I always believe that something better will happen and that's why things are not working out right now. That's been my attitude towards everything that I do.

I mean, every player is hurt every year, so that's not really an excuse for everything.

When things don't go well, you try to find any kind of excuse.

My parents never let the color of our skin be an excuse for why we did not succeed.

I say, 'You can never use excuses because they always run out.'

So after a while, if people won't accept your excuses, you stop looking for them.

My strength comes from my mom. Just seeing what she had to go through to raise us, she wouldn't make excuses; she wouldn't put her head down. So I guess I looked at adversity right in the eye and took it on.

When I don't win, I can't hang my head. I can't make excuses.

I don't make excuses if I play bad. I just try to find a way to deal with it. I learned that from my family, to deal with your problems and still be good at what you do.

I'm not the person that when he has an off shooting game is going to make excuses.

I've been in games where execution hasn't gone like you want it. The key is you remain confident because you know who you are.

When you're at your absolute, most exhausted... That's when you have to be at the top of your game.

People are so mean, it's exhausting.

Being a black person in America is exhausting.

I am not in exile.

Golshifteh Farahani

I think music is one of the hero/sheroes of the African-American existence.

At the end of 'Next to Normal,' you can see the light. 'There will be light.' That's the reason the show exists. Those are the last four words.

I'm not afraid of expectations.