Quotes About Resilience

There's never been a weak South African or Australian team. They are fighters.

I'm very weak in a sense. I'm very tiny and I am very emotional, and that is not something people usually associate with strength.

I do feel like I have set out a path of my life to never again be too small or too weak to protect the people I love.

Sometimes when you are emotionally weak, you are affected, but not all the time. When you have your family to support you, it helps you to stay strong.

Anytime you have adversity or something that you self-inflict on yourself, you typically always have a chip on your shoulder to make sure that you're not the weak link.

Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

In a culture fueled by burnout, a culture that has run itself down, our national resilience becomes compromised. And when our collective immune system is weakened, we become more susceptible to viruses that are part of every culture because they're part of human nature - fear-mongering, scapegoating, conspiracy theories, and demagoguery.

A puny body weakens the soul.

I do not listen to criticism or flattery, one weakens you and the other angers you.

I believe resilience is the most useful human quality, and I've sought to cultivate it, but in 2019 I felt my resolve begin to weaken at times as it has never done before.

If you watch me play, you'll see how often I get kicked. I don't go off the pitch and cut myself to act like I've been kicked.

That's one reason fans take to me. They like the battle side of it. They look at me and think this guy shouldn't be on the pitch, he's just bulldozing his way through.

We have to play the game, you can't go on to the pitch thinking the game is already lost.

The team is completely close. Anything you say outside, there is no chance it will go inside. So the team is really strong and compact. We know what we want and how to achieve it on the pitch.

I don't care if we're out of it or not, if I've got a chance to pitch, I want to.

I will never again stand on the pitch as a professional player. But I won't stop playing the game.

But I, you know, if I could choose a period to go back to, I think I would like to live through the Blitz. 'Cause you do read so many accounts of people saying they're living their lives at such an intense pitch that it was a completely different way of living.

Getting my curveball back and finding another pitch just helped me figure out how to pitch.

I would say I stay pretty calm. Don't let the game get too fast on me. I try to keep my emotions in check, I guess, so I don't show that anything fazes me out there. And I try to take it one pitch at a time.

I don't mind if my performances get dissected and people criticise what I've done on the pitch. They can talk about my game 24/7 for all I care. And a lot of those opinions and criticisms may actually be right. So I don't mind that.

I don't like losing. I don't like to be in a losing position, and I show this a lot. I demonstrate on the pitch.

The only way to get to the other end of the pitch is to belt it and then belt it again.

I think, when I was younger and I was on loan, I used to get nervous before games, but as you get older, you adapt to it, and it becomes second nature to walk out onto the pitch and perform.

I like to define myself as a fighter on the pitch.