Quotes About Resilience

I managed a team that was so bad we considered a 2-0 count on the batter a rally.

What I know for sure is that if you can survive 11 days in cramped quarters with a friend and come out laughing, your friendship is the real deal. I know ours is.

Serkin was so sick he almost died for three days.

You're damn right I do. I'm in Madison Square Garden getting the s*** knocked out of me

I can do this, I lied to myself feebly. No one was going to bite me.

I am not afraid of crashing, my secret is . . . just before we hit the ground, I jump as high as I can.

Some people suffer in silence louder than others.

For a Catholic kid in parochial school, the only way to survive the beatings - by classmates, not the nuns - was to be the funny guy.

Do you know, it's funny, but I never thought of being blind as a disadvantage, and I never thought of being black as a disadvantage.

After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.

Once you've been in a mental institution, people are going to look at you funny.

I think maybe to survive, I mean to just get through the day - I'm not saying that everything is hilariously funny.

Being funny wasn't a career choice growing up, it was my way out of situations; a way to survive another day.

Otulissa swelled up to twice her normal size. 'Well, SPRINK ON YOUR SPRONK!

I had a tumor. But it was great.

We may not be all that bright, Jace said, but at least we are alive.

My wife, my daughters, even my grandchildren are funny. You've got to keep a sense of humor because anger destroys you.

Sometimes in the most tragic situation, something just profoundly funny happens.

I knew comedy was the thing for me when I was the only Asian kid in high school... who failed math.

Everyone thinks softball is a girl's game. But you only think that until you get hit with it on a line drive.

Let's just say it was damn hard [to make the Hangover]. I've got the bumps and bruises to show for it. It's funny because things that don't even look that bad on screen were still extremely painful.

Makeup's just crazy, anyways. Native Americans used to wear it, and it did all right for them until, uh ... well, until you killed them all, I suppose.

If I were Achilles I would put my foot in a f**k off block of concrete!

It is not an easy thing to inflate a dog.