Quotes About Resilience

Sometimes you have to throw 120 pitches to figure yourself out.

When you're not hitting and they're making good pitches, it's hard.

Sometimes you don't have your best stuff every day. You've just got to go out there and try to make pitches.

Mental attitude and concentration are the keys to pitching.

I keep a lot of my old baseball hats, and if you look in the hats I've had since I started pitching, you'll see 'Philippians 4:13' written on the brim. That's the Scripture that gets me through the day because sometimes you can't do it all by yourself. You can't do it on your own, so you lean on Him.

There's very few pitching coaches that I worked with that actually came out on the mound and told me what I was doing wrong with the knuckleball. Because they just didn't know. So I had to figure it out. I was on my own.

I think what's fabulous about 'Living the Dream' is that accidents happen to them and they've got dramas and pitfalls to get through, but they do it as a united pair.

You know, it's just a matter of working through the pitfalls sometimes and working through the challenges that lie ahead.

Pittsburgh is a very hard city, especially if you're black.

Of course I got angry when I lost and maybe would cry in my hotel room afterwards. But I would never show it. I didn't want the men's pity. I didn't want to share my pain with them.

I don't have much positive to say about motor neuron disease, but it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I still could do. I'm happier now than before I developed the condition.

I don't have much positive to say about motor neurone disease. But it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I could still do.

I'm a Latina from Miami. I pity you if you think you're going out-shout me.

I never wanted anyone's pity.

Luke Cage isn't going to throw a pity party for himself. He literally says to himself, 'This is the world I'm in. These are the circumstances I have.' He's a self-made man. He's trying to continuously build, and that's what's interesting about him. He's a work in progress.

If you think you're gonna have pity on me or take it easy on me, then I'm gonna have to help you off your back.

People who pity themselves think, 'Why would I try to do anything? I'll just fail.'

I never thought anyone would pity me because of my time in the Marine Corps.

It's still hard for me to think about Sept. 11 sometimes. I'm still angry. It's hard to watch my daughters, Celia and Zaya, grow up and know they'll never see their father. They'll always be 9/11 girls, and I wish I could shield them from that. Everyone has an immediate pity for them. It is a sad thing, but the girls are also so happy.

In the media, from the little bit that I have read... there's not a lot of pity. There are some people, usually older people who have been around or people who really know basketball. Other people in the media are usually like, 'Well, stop getting injured.' You know, like I can control it.

I've held a lot of pity parties for myself. There was a time when I never wanted to face the public again. I never wanted to face the press again. But God gave me healing gifts.

Most of us have faced a - faced a serious budget problem or another at some pivotal moment in our lives.

All Pixar movies are heartbreaking, aren't they?

Every Pixar movie at one time was the worst motion picture ever made.