Quotes About Strength

I was a hockey player growing up. Being a big guy and being imposing, I had to use my size to protect my teammates.

Every time I step out on that field, I'm 100 percent. My teammates know that. They know what I'm out there dealing with. I know what I'm out there dealing with. But when it comes to my mindset, I'm 100 percent.

My own little rule was two for one. If one of my teammates got knocked down, then I knocked down two on the other team.

A lot of players have told me they see me as a protector of my teammates, that, side by side, I'm there when something goes down, and I step up beside them and for them when things get nasty. I play the game hard, and I play it physical.

As athletes, we're always going to have aches and pains, but when your teammates cheer you on, you don't think about it.

I had teammates like Chris Davis. Manny Machado was really young and such a good kid. Seeing his development, it's ridiculous. He's going to get bigger. He's going to get stronger. He's going to get even better.

I always get made fun of by my teammates for my huge calves, but I'm like, 'they make me strong and fast!'

I'm 100 percent a byproduct of my sport. I always tell my teammates that I only have muscles where they get to play.

If someone says something to me, I am not going to back down. Whether it's defending myself or standing up for one of my teammates, that is the way I play the game.

You just have your teammates and yourself out there to pick you up, so just kind of shows you how strong you really can be.

I don't think I'm soft. I don't think my teammates think I'm soft. I don't know where that comes from, but... whatever.

Tough teams win when the shots are not going.

One of the things that makes the best teams in the world the best is the fact that, across midfield and up top, they are capable of hurting you.

The English teams are very difficult to face.

but if you get a chance to be the baddest and strongest, always be the baddest and strongest.

The poem's called 'Love Is Enough.' As long as we're together, that's how we'll be. No trembling. No faltering. We're unstoppable.

Don't look like that. Everything's going to be okay. The center will hold." "How do you know?" "Because we are the center.

And as I did it, it was like pierc­ing my own heart at the same time.

And I know it would be hard—for all sorts of reasons. But I think we can handle whatever comes our way, so long as we keep loving each other like this.

Being next to him like this made me feel as though everything really would be okay. Not because he'd fix things for me, but because I was reminded of the good in my life and why I had to fight for it. I won't admit defeat again.

I lifted her easily in my arms and carried her over to the bed, amazed at how the strongest women I knew could feel so light in my arms.

is the only escape plan we need.

I wasn't that crazy on spirit when I said you're my flame in the dark. We chase away the shadows around each other. Our backgrounds don't matter. What we have is bigger than that. I love you, and beneath all that logic, calculation, and superstition, I know you love me too.

You're my flame in the dark. We chase away the shadows around each other. -Adrian Ivashkov