Quotes About Strength

It was already hard enough growing up in the Philippines but imagine being blind, that's 10 times harder.

My toughness comes from just being from Philly, man.

Philly guys have a different toughness from anybody you've probably ever met. That's what I hang my hat on.

My philosophy is that you do what you have to do.

I'm like a phoenix. I rise from the ashes.

I always had a sense of where I was going with 'Dark Phoenix.' Jean had the greatest power imaginable... and, how's she going to deal with that?

My mother was a phoenix who always expected to rise from the ashes of her latest disaster. She loved being Judy Garland.

Words do cut, and they do hurt. It was one thing growing up where you were bullied, but you'd just come home. Now you can't really escape it. It's to a point where you turn off that phone, you live your life, and you try not to let the words of others offend or stop you from being you and living your life.

In 1995, I was diagnosed with cancer, and I had to practice what I preached. I had always said to 'believe in God' and 'don't give up' to little kids who had been diagnosed with cancer. I then thought if I can't call on that same God and same strength that I told people about, I would be a liar and a phony.

I feel I'm a strange mixture of insecurity and strength. Most of us, probably most people. I'm transferring that same concept to the people I photograph.

I photographed Alek Wek. She was amazing, and nobody knew about her then. It was a really strong photograph of her.

I like a shoot when I feel strong and sexy, a little hard, with a darker edge. That's what I do best. I like giving a photographer what they want, working with the art director. And modeling is all I've ever known.

I don't want to knock photography, and I don't feel that film is up there but photography isn't. I think they're next to each other really, you know. There's an incredible strength to a still picture. Or there can be an incredible strength to a still picture that can outlive you. That can outlive a film.

All my childhood memories of my mother, is that of someone who was just superwoman, before the phrase was even invented.

I play a good physical game.

When your physical energy and mind combines, it's great.

Fitness, in my opinion, is a mental exercise more than just physical.

Football is getting more and more physical every day. There is no way to avoid contact.

I don't usually lose it but if someone is trying to be too filthy or get physical, I am not going to take that. At the end of the day, I am a Punjabi!

As a running back, you always want to be physical.

I knew that maybe I couldn't be playing again, but I just wanted to get in physical shape.

All physical activity begins with the body's core. I maintain the strength in my core so that I can jump, run, start, stop, and accelerate at the highest levels.

Even if you're ill, physical activity at a lower level will help you beat it.

I've always been physical. I have no concept of what life is like without physical activity.