Quotes About Resilience

I'm easygoing. There's a place and time for everything. When that bell rings, I'm not nice and easy. I'm not meek and passive.

I don't understand my own sporadic collapses into passivity. Perhaps I never will.

I am not ashamed of my past; I am not ashamed of my humble beginnings.

I wouldn't change a thing about what I've done in the past because what may have been bad choices have all led me to this moment.

You can't let your past hold your future hostage.

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

I don't like to dwell on the past.

A lot of people think I had such a rosy career, but I wanted to identify that one of the things that helps you have a long career is learning how to deal with adversity, how to get past it. Once I learned how to get through that, others things didn't seem so hard.

I remember that in the past I was overwhelmed with the mystery of anxiety, or the mystery of depression, but now when you feel that feeling coming on you no longer go into fight-or-flight mode. You go: 'Oh, I know what this is' and you ride it out.

My past is a bit checkered.

It's very important to go pitch-by-pitch and game-by-game and not getting too far ahead of myself. In the past, it was trying to make up for a bad game and thinking ahead and what do I have to do to fix this.

I can't dwell on past mistakes.

I don't look into negative things. Go past mistakes and look forward.

When you're living off a 1 packet of pasta a day you know you need to get a break because you certainly can't go on like that for ever!

We really ought to give ourselves a collective pat on the back for doing as well as we have in a universe of constant media change and mutation.

No, the only things which do not bother me are the elements. I can overcome them without a fight. All one has to do to get the best of the elements is to stand pat and one will win.

Normally, I've found in my life that the louder you speak, probably, the less of a fighter you are. All the fighters I've had a chance and the honor to serve with didn't pat themselves on the back, were pretty humble men and women.

I used the same hand to pat my back and to pick me up when I get shattered after losing out on a film due to reasons except your credibility to that role.

Some days I am fine but us mums are not robots, we are not perfect, we have to give ourselves a break and a pat on the back.

I have to thank Pat Curran for a second war. It was one of the hardest fights of my life.

I have negative feelings towards Pat Curran, but I can't let it affect me during the fight. I won't use my anger during the fight. If he thinks he will make get emotional during the fight, he's dead wrong.

I'm not Abdul-Jabbar or Pat Ewing or Mark Eaton. I'm Shawn Bradley and I'm going to do my best each time I step on the court. When the game is over, it's over.

After 60, it's just patch, patch, patch.

I used to have really bad skin, and when I was younger, I had a lazy eye. I had to wear a patch and pink-rimmed glasses.