Quotes About Strength

Don't let the myths make you believe that women don't support other women.

I had somebody say to me, 'You should play more ladylike.' This is basketball. I'm supposed to go out there and, 'Oh, I broke my nail,' or 'Oh, you hit me?'

You have to use your pain as your gift. If you're able to take something really negative and repackage it as something positive, you've nailed it.

My character is 'Get up and keep fighting,' unless I've been nailed to the ground.

Anyone who's done their homework knows that the West was a pretty rough-and-tumble place. People from all over the world were there - and when you were there, you had to be tough as nails.

Bozoma Saint John

Holy cow, she was tough as nails, man. When I was starting, Moolah was the head woman. She could kick 90 percent of the guys' butts.

It was really hard for them to intimidate me. They felt I was intimidating. One of the growers had a name for me: I think it was 'dragon lady' or something like it.

My name is Bolt, Lightning Bolt.

Bullock by name, and Bullock by nature.

I've been through a lot, and I've been called a lot of names.

There were moments where I was called many derogatory names. I've gotten into a couple of fights. People have jumped me. You know, I've had a lot of things that have happened to me, but I look past those things now.

I don't care if someone calls me names.

My personal narrative - I was lucky early on in my career to have some really strong mentors. I didn't realize it at the time, but that's what really built me up.

I think there is this narrative that if you are a black woman, and you are strong, and you are educated, it's like, 'Good luck getting a black man.'

Strong female characters - even if they don't necessarily make the same decisions that we might - make such great narrative material, especially when there's an equally strong male character in the mix.

I think it's really a sign of great American strength that we do invest the money we do in technology, in these hard projects, in NASA.

In every decision that we've ever made that's important, the more input, the more people we've heard from, the better the result. And so that will never change in the business model of NASCAR, because the ideas come from all over the place, and that's the strength that we have.

I feel like what made 'Nasty' so fire was it was finally something that they couldn't take from me.

I like to battle with defenders if I have to. I don't know where it comes from; I am not a nasty guy.

I'm a huge Ronda Rousey fan. She's extremely talented. What I like most about her is she's mean and nasty.

What's really important? That I'm an individual, I guess. I am an individual - a strong one, too. I'm Natalie Cole. I gotta be me.

I look up to Tegan & Sara, obviously, Adele and Natalie Maines from the Dixie Chicks. All these artists are strong in their convictions, and they haven't changed who they are for the music business.

How can a country that is impoverished, humiliated and beaten defend its national interests?