Quotes About Resilience

Don't let aging get you down. It's too hard to get back up.

Someone once said "The only thing that will be left after a nuclear holocaust is Cher and cockroaches." I think that's funny, because, you know, I am a survivor. If I am anything, that's what I am.

I came from a real tough neighborhood. Why, every time I shut the window I hurt somebody's fingers.

Gentlemen, we are being killed on the beaches. Lets go inland and be killed.

You can't always go to the well and have things be funny.

Golf is good for the soul. You get so mad at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.

My knees on the ground, dear father, don't let me break, please make me stronger.

If you lose your best cornerback and punter, I'd say that's a double loss.

They say you can't do it, but sometimes it doesn't always work.

Of course there are certain things that get to me, but I try and lead by example and show people that, especially with haters, that you should just ignore them.

Disasters are funny to me. As a comedian you learn from failure, so I'm always trying to put myself in a situation that does not seem ideal for my comedy and see how it works.

Going into a game against Lew Alcindor [later Kareem Abdul-Jabbar] is like going into a knife fight and finding there's no blade in your handle.

Wolves never look more funny than when they have lost the scent and scrabble to find it again: they hop in the air; they run in circles, they plow up the ground with their noses . . . .

You've got to try and do your best, and the failure is what's funny. But you can't be aware of the failure, you've just got to keep trying to do your best.

Yeah, that's funny, huh?...Something hurts you real bad and you get used to it. Like being hurt becomes part of who you are.

The haters always scream the loudest.

Just because I rock doesn't mean I am made of stone.

There are two things that won't last long in this world, and that's dogs chasing cars and pros putting for pars.

I'm not so much a dragon slayer, more a dragon annoyer -- I'm a dragon irritater.

It ain't the heat, it's the humility.

And the last thought he had that morning as he closed his eyes was: I hope the tornado hit the moose.

You've got to take the sour with the bitter.

When you see Charlie Chaplin, he stays funny. He doesn't become drama, and so what really seems to endure is comedy.

"Yes, but that's our strongest weak point."