Quotes About Resilience

When you go into the other guy's backyard you cannot hope to win on points.

I think of fiction as the highest calling. I'm kind of addicted to it. It's the thing that has gotten me through all the hard points in my life.

You have to win games by scoring points, of course, so that's important. But when you're having nights against a good defensive team, you have to win in a different manner. You have to win a defensive-type game.

You can't give away points and games against someone like Murray. You're not going to make it to the top with that kind of effort.

When you are 10 points behind, you have to be focused just on the next game.

You need to keep having data points of progress, so even if an investor - and we've all had investors say no to us - there are times where you go back, and you keep them in the loop, and you keep telling them the progress and the perseverance you have.

There's no room for being disappointed or for excuses, 'Oh, I had four match points.'

I definitely need clarity.

You can say whatever you want; it doesn't matter. It doesn't faze me. I'll still go out and do what I have to do, whether that's making A's in the classroom or doing well on the field.

After my Clay Guida fight, I went down a bad path, man. It was just not a good path. After my loss to B.J. Penn it just got worse. I got really out of control.

When the guy is too good - you know, playing clean and you're playing very bad, I mean not that good - you need to change.

Life doesn't use detergent to clean itself.

My dad was working in the street and my mum was working every day as a cleaner. My life was like that.

I'd just come out of drama school, didn't get anything, had to move back in with my parents and do a night-time cleaning job.

When I got cut from Cleveland, they weren't one of the best teams in the NBA at the time, so I had some doubts. I didn't think I was going to get back into the league. I wasn't sure it was going to happen for me.

Cleveland gets crapped on a lot.

You feel like you need to deal with a lot if you're from Cleveland, so you learn to let things roll off your back, and you learn that humor is the best way to deal with it.

They always say if you can make it in New York, you can make it anywhere, but I say that about Cleveland.

People, when they sent me to Cleveland, what they expected was for Shawn to go to Cleveland and us to lose, you know what I'm saying? It's not going to happen.

I find strong roles really interesting. Usually, that means the character is also clever.

To move past fear is a cliche.

As cliche as it sounds, I've always told myself, 'Don't worry about the things you can't control. Control the things you can control.' That battle has beat up on me for years.

As cliched as it sounds, I'm taking every day as it comes.

Breaking cliches for women has never been easy.