Quotes About Resilience

You can never have the comeback if you don't have the retirement.

I feel blessed to have as many comebacks as I can.

Every film is a comeback, no matter what I did the last time.

No sport is easy, if you spend time away it will be difficult to make a comeback.

To have a comeback, you have to have a setback.

In show business, everyone loves a comeback story.

It's not easy being a father, but I've been allowed a comeback.

Don't say Aretha is making a comeback, because I've never been away!

People say, 'When are you making this comeback?' I say, 'It's not a comeback, it's a record.' They say, 'Where have you been all these years?' I say, 'I've been making records.'

I have watched a documentary on Caster Semenya. I am inspired by how she made a comeback.

There isn't a comedian in the world that hasn't bombed.

As a comedian, you have everything working against you.

People like us who are on their last leg can only understand comedies.

How do I comfort myself? Well, I say, 'Life is just like that.'

If there's comfort involved, it's probably not for me.

There's a history of enslaved African-Americans having to make their slave masters comfortable. This business of what we call skinning and grinning - that is something African-Americans are very much cognizant of.

But every day I tell my story, and be comfortable with my story and be comfortable with what I've done, and what I did, and how I am today, it lessens the likelihood it will ever happen.

Never get comfortable.

The comic book world is a tough business.

Art was a way for me to express myself and for me to also escape because it was tough growing up as a child. We didn't have a lot of money. I was always creating. I was writing stories. I was doing comic books. I made my own universe.

You love the game, but it's hard to do the things you do when you're feeling like you're a leg down all the time, literally. Or you're always beat up, even coming into the season. So it's just not as fun when you're down, and you got to work your way up. And you can't really get there because you're so beat up.

I got one comment that I had a lot of double chins. I just laughed at it. I do have a double chin, so that's legit.

I was angry and sad that people kept commenting on my pictures saying, 'You're too fat to wear that!' or 'Cover up! No one wants to see that!'

If I saw negative comments I tried to look past them.