Quotes About Optimism

Coming in, I wanted to be a great player, and right now at the beginning of my career, I'm showing some slight sunshine that I can be the player I want.

Everyone has a dark cloud hovering over them at some point, but then there is sunshine.

I've always just felt a little out of place. I still feel out of place in San Francisco. It's this place where everything is going great, and everyone feels super optimistic about the world. It's a little different about how I grew up.

I was so lucky to walk away with two Super Bowls and know that the last year was positive.

I'm not ill. I'm healthy. I'm not going anywhere. We've got Super Bowls to win.

I believed that I could go to the Super Bowl and win multiple Super Bowls and do all of those things. I believe in that every day.

You should never say 'D'Brickashaw' and 'bust' in the same sentence. You should never even think that. It should be D'Brickashaw, Pro Bowl, D'Brickashaw, Jets, Super Bowl.

Every year, I say the Seahawks are going to win the Super Bowl. There's no doubt in my mind every single year. And you have to keep in mind this was well before the Seahawks were good. This was, like, 2-14, drafting-Rick-Mirer Seahawks. I would still be saying they were going to win the Super Bowl.

Every team that goes into training camp thinks they're a Super Bowl contender.

I loved the expectation that every year we were going to the Super Bowl.

As a football player, your mentality is that you're going to win the Super Bowl. You have to think that when you're playing the game.

We have no reason to be mistrustful of our world, for it is not against us

Happily, somewhere in the heart of darkness, my optimism prevailed.

Life is right, in any case.

One must never despair upon losing something, whether it's an individual or an experience of joy or happiness; everything returns even more magnificently. (Letters on Life)

Man's hope can paint a purple picture, can transform a soaring vulture into a noble eagle or moaning dove.

Man's hope can paint a purple picture, can transform a soaring vulture into a noble eagle or a moaning dove.

All they wanted of me was one belch of affirmation and I'd bellow it out loud. Yes! Yes! YES! That was all anyone wanted of us, that we should be heard and not seen, and then heard only in one big optimistic chorus of yassuh, yassuh, yassuh!

Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.

Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.

The sun shines today also.

The measure of mental health is the disposition to find good everywhere.