Quotes About Resilience

I'm not trying to be dirty. I'm out there to play basketball and not fight. But if it comes to the situation, one thing, know this, I'm never going to back down from anybody.

Even before I made my high school team, I'd say I want to be a NBA player, and people laughed at me with, 'Get out of here, you ain't going to be a NBA player. You don't even play basketball.'

I just think we're all high-level basketball players, best in the world. And no matter the outside circumstance, we still have to play basketball.

I never wanted to be a cheerleader; I wanted to play football.

I can care less what people say about me. If I can go to the facility, work out, play football, and go home, that's what I would do. I'm a big-time football guy. I could care less about the outside.

As far as what it takes to play football, I've got all it requires.

In hindsight, that time out of football gives you the hunger to want to get back to basics and play football.

You have to admit, yes you play football, but at the same time you must not forget you are a defender and have to fight. Put your face in where it hurts.

People said I'm too big to play football.

I was never big or fast, but I got to play football and box.

If I can run, I'm not going to sit out any game. I'm here to play football, not to watch and collect a check.

It's not like I can't play football with some injuries.

I played college basketball. When I first decided I was going to play football, there were a lot of people telling me that I wasn't going to make it.

I have made mistakes and just have to live with it, but at the end of the day, I just want to play football.

I look at the opportunity to play football as a blessing and I think what doesn't kill you certainly makes you stronger.

If we can't handle pressure, we don't play football.

Look, I'm an entrepreneur, I want to create things, I'm a builder. I don't want handouts. If I didn't play football I'd be doing something else. That's me. I don't want to be held back. I want to go forward. I want to better myself.

At the end of the day, just got to go play football. That's all there is to it.

It's football. You play football. You just play injured. That's how it is. A lot of it comes from my dad. He played for Hayden Fry University in the '80s. He used to tell me about the injuries he played with. One time he tore his ACL in Week 6 and then played in the Rose Bowl in Week 12. So, if he could do that, I can do anything.

I think I was given a gift to play golf and to be mentally strong.

That whole 'Bo' Selecta!' thing was damaging. I played along with it; I said it was cool, I can take a joke, roll with it, so I went on the show. But it was killing me.

I've been through seasons where I've not played a lot of games, and its been difficult due to injuries and stuff like that.

After I hurt the knee, football wasn't nearly as much fun. I was limited. But you make do with what you have. I adjusted some. I was lucky to play as long as I did, with the different kinds of injuries I got. I played with two severed hamstring muscles in my leg late in my career. I could barely run, other than to drop back to pass.

I will not look back and say, 'I should have played in England.'