Quotes About Resilience

I played with a herniated disk that I didn't find out was herniated until I tore my meniscus.

I have just been a bit inconsistent when I have played. That happens in football, especially when you have been out for a long period.

You can learn more from the lows than the highs. The highs are great but the lows make you really look at things in a different way and want to improve. Every player will have both in their careers and I have, but what you get is that experience which is so important to perform at your best.

You learn as a player not to listen to the criticism. Many of the people who put out that criticism might not be as accomplished, might not understand the game as well from the inside-out.

Injuries are a part and parcel of a player's career.

So the whole basis for jazz music is based on the fact that the bass player could not play his instrument.

The chip comes from people saying I'm not good enough, or I can't score, or I'm not a real basketball player.

It doesn't matter which year a player is born in, whether you are 19 or 20 - you have to be agile. You have to accept your shortcomings.

The best mark of a player is to beat him over a long distance.

The door can never be closed for good to any player.

I'm not a player who's going to come out and hit you off the court. But I can chip away at people.

As a player, you just want to focus on controlling the controllables.

You want the players in the locker room to know you as that kid that fights 'til the end, has that never-say-die attitude.

It's not good to have so many key players injured, but there is no point complaining about it.

I'm just going to get out there and on court, give it my all and that's what I want to do every day. That's what I want to be known for, and that's what I want other players to know about me, that I'm never going to give up.

I don't ever want to come in the locker room and have players in there pouting.

There's nobody you can point to in the world that doesn't make a mistake. The best players, the best business people, the best coaches. So one thing is not going to make or break a person.

Great players have bad years.

Sometimes players can have some ups-and-downs after they have done well and then lose a few matches in a row.

Above all, the fans of the Cleveland Cavaliers, as well as the entire franchise, deserve and need our players and coaches to dig deep within themselves.

I remember some stories had a very big impact on me, like 'The Little Train That Could,' which is about the importance of not giving up, and 'Little Toot,' about a playful tugboat in the New York harbor.

It's a part of football, you get concussed, you gotta keep on playing. You can't get afraid to go across the middle any more than you were at the beginning.

The power of music, and the power of your determination in life, especially when you're playing extreme metal like this... it just conquers. It conquers everything.

Hard fouls are a part of playoff basketball, and I think that's how basketball should be. I don't take those fouls personally.