Quotes About Strength

I prefer to not be soft.

What's the point of hitting pads, landing 10,000 punches, and then landing punches that are soft as feathers in the fight? I hit hard.

I don't shy away from softball being my background.

I used to play softball every summer back in Quitman. My two brothers demanded I be tough. There were certain girls they wouldn't let me invite over because they were too feminine and fragile.

I wanted to show that I could take on roles that were a bit softer and more caring.

I try to keep it in a very low impact - I have scoliosis, so exercises can be really hard on my back, whether it's too much running, jumping or boxing. I'll do those things once in a while, but I keep it mostly Pilates, resistance-band based, softer exercises that build strength from inside the muscle.

The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.

Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.

When you write as a woman, there's this feeling there's going to be a softness.

I was a single mother, and my boys were babies. I sold my body for food, money, and Pampers.

'The Rap Year Book' is really great. Shea Serrano wrote it, and it became this huge phenomenon where he sold out everywhere and made the bestseller list just on the strength of his fans on Twitter wanting him to succeed.

I'm an excellent soldier and a good strategist. I love to fight.

I am a soldier. That is who I am. That is what I do.

Just because I was almost 62, I did not feel decrepit and felt I wasn't finished being a soldier yet.

I want my word to be up to the scale of the feat of arms performed by the Russian soldier.

My hope is that 'Blk Girl Soldier' is a freedom song for black women today who are fighting the macro- and microaggressions of daily life in our city/country/world.

I think women in general, we just soldier on. Whatever it takes, you just have to do it. It's your job. Whatever it is.

What I discovered is that there has always been a soldier inside me; I just didn't know it.

I'm a combat soldier.

If you ask a soldier what is the key to this confidence, they will likely answer their discipline and their training.

I know what soldiers or their families go through.

The gigantic Gaul derided the Roman soldiers as a band of pigmies.

As soldiers in Israel's army, one of the most grueling training regimens we had to endure was a long march while carrying a comrade on a stretcher.

Our soldiers show every single day that they are more than good enough.