Quotes About Resilience

I think that type of mindset, no matter if you're 16-0, you're rolling through the playoffs, no matter what the situation is, there's always going to be somebody that's doubting you or saying something about you. I think for certain guys individually, it may be something that kind of gives you that extra kick.

Obviously, in the playoffs you play through things, and that's what I wanted to do. But there's also the reality that no matter how bad you want to play and how bad you want to get in there, there's also a question of how effective you are going to be.

The first game of the playoffs is the worst. After that, you kind of settle down.

Every time you don't make the playoffs, you have something inside that you want to prove again next year.

Whether it's the playoffs, whether it's not the playoffs, it doesn't matter as long as we're getting better.

There are going to be losses. There are going to be bad plays. There are going to be mistakes.

In my 20s, I could just power through stuff and be fine, but now, in your 40s? It's kind of like Kobe Bryant. He plays basketball a little bit differently than he did when he first started out.

There are no plays run for your sake as a defender - you just have to want it.

A good football team plays offense and defense. You have to be aggressive and disrupt.

When our mothers are alive and healthy, they do extraordinary things... like the mothers of Plaza de Mayo, who marched in Argentinean plazas, defying the military junta dictatorship and demanding the whereabouts of their abducted children... or the Liberian mothers who faced down civil war armed only with T-shirts and courage.

It wasn't such a pleasant experience. We went through 14 hours with contractions every two minutes, no epidural, no nothing. Every two minutes, I would pass out. I went to the hospital on Saturday, and Levi was born on Monday.

It's not been a pleasant life.

Home wasn't a pleasant place to live, growing up.

It's not pleasant when you lose your whole football team.

Somebody saying something offensive to you or insulting to you is not pleasant, but it's part of life.

I grew up knowing only war, so for me, it was the way things were. It wasn't pleasant by any means.

When you're out there doing things, your adrenaline is rushing so much. But getting kicked in the face is never fun. There have been a lot of different painful things, but when you're kicked in the face or kneed in the face, it's not the most pleasant thing.

You have to take criticism with a grain of salt because you're never going to please everybody.

Please ignore rumors! I've had them for years and you have to just let them go over your head. Don't take them personally.

You cannot please everybody. You keep marching forward.

To other Canadians who are on journeys to defeat cancer and to live their lives, I say this: please don't be discouraged that my own journey hasn't gone as well as I had hoped. You must not lose your own hope.

I took a lot of bad things after Athens. I just learnt to deal with it. The problem was beforehand I had this feeling where I was trying to please everybody - I wanted everybody to like me.

Please remember, no matter what you go through in life, somebody else might have it harder.

To our enemies all over the world who plan America's demise, please take my advice. Give up now. No matter what, you will lose. You will lose it all.