Quotes About Acceptance

I'm not going to be a ten or twelve grand-slam winner. It's not going to happen.

When you lose a game of football, you can still be a winner by taking it on the chin and getting on with it.

The more that everyone has access to the same educational opportunities, the more society will tend to accept some receiving disproportionate rewards. After all, they themselves have a chance to be winners.

Because Olivia Newton-John wasn't from Nashville, they didn't like her winning our awards. I've got no complaints.

Writing an acceptance speech gives you the expectation of winning, and you are therefore devastated or hurt if you didn't win.

Not winning at Wimbledon is not going to bother me forever.

I don't love the fact that gravity is winning as I get older, but there's also a calmness that comes with it, which I'm secretly enjoying.

Some people might say my coming out after just winning the MVP award is heroic, and I understand that.

Don't judge a person on winning or losing.

I know I'll never feel that sensation of racing and winning again and that took a while to get used to. The Tour was a race I never thought I could lose.

When people look and decide they have nothing in common with me - I'm 43, balding, blond, whatever - there's something absolutely invigorating about winning them over. Even if it's eight people from Sweden who don't understand what I'm talking about.

Let's face it, I'm not winning a fight with anybody - unless it's against someone like Larry David.

We must learn to exist together in peace and love people as they are. That is the only way humanity wins.

I don't believe in purity tests.

Growing up in Texas, I was already dealing with the fact that I didn't even know I was Asian until a certain age. I just was informed about it in a somewhat negative way by my peers. And that immediately put me into that mindset where I felt very othered. My safety always felt like it wasn't something that I could consider a given.

Growing up in the Bible Belt of Texas, I thought for sure there was no way - if I'm 100 percent true to myself and come out as a gay, African-American person in 2015 - that people are going to be able to accept that and understand it.

I am lucky to say now that it is not frightening for me, living in L.A., to be gay. Even when I was in Texas, I wasn't afraid. I was kind of out in high school. I just could never decide on what label. I am glad that I am public about it, and I think I should be.

I don't often get Indian girl roles because I'm 'not Indian enough.' Which is true - I'm from Texas.

Growing up as a gay boy in West Texas, I definitely felt like a bit of an outcast sometimes - that there was a world that I would never be a part of.

I grew up in America - I was born and raised in Texas. I might look different, but at the same time, I'm pretty American.

I grew up as a little gay boy in Paris, Texas, which was a very conservative community and I had a strong religious background as well.

How amazing is it that when a young gay or lesbian person has their first crush, no matter where they live in the country, they can imagine that all the way to marriage? When I first experienced a crush, in Texas, there was maybe a second of butterflies that were then dammed in by the fear of what that meant.

I came from a prep school in New Jersey, so I get that when I got to FSU, some people weren't sure about me - I didn't play in Florida or Texas or at a powerhouse high school.

When you lose at Texas, you're going to be bashed. I accept it.