Quotes About Overcoming

Big defeats make us learn.

I remember that in 2017, when we won everything, we started the pre-season badly, with defeats.

Unfortunately, defeats are part of the game.

In 1994, the critics said I was too young, in 1998, that I couldn't cross the ball, and in 2002 that I didn't know how to defend.

We can't get down on one loss or one bad defensive play. We gotta play through it.

I was born asthmatic so came into boxing with deficiencies.

I live with being bipolar, but it doesn't define me anymore.

MS doesn't define who I am.

One play don't define a game.

You should not be defined by one bad performance.

I've thought about it many times, I really have, because it defined who I am. I wouldn't be where I am today without my dyslexia.

Every bad thing that's happened to me has defined me, has shaped, has moulded me.

Legacies are defined not by what happened to you or how it happened. It's how you pick yourself back up and you continue to fight each and every day.

You come up against challenges in life, and it's how you deal with them that defines you.

A defining moment takes a long time to get over, if you ever do.

'New Mutants' is the absolute definition of a broken down jalopy, and I took it on, and I just remade it... That's why I was so cocky and confident: because I was like, 'I just turned around this broken down comic book with products of my imagination.'

I was born with legs, but they were so deformed.

It feels great to deliver a hit. After all the criticism I got for 'Veer,' I was scared to even step out of my house.

To be honest, I have a lot of mental demons in life and wrestling has definitely helped me out with that.

Everybody has their demons that they face, and I went through a time when I thought it was impossible to love myself.

I'd love to go back to the U.S. Open, where it sort of all came crashing down for me in 2012, and sort of conquer that place. And by conquer, I mean just get back out on the court there. I have a lot of demons from that place.

Until I got the weight off, there was something inside of me that said, 'You hate yourself.' You get too depressed over the weight to really work on this. For whatever reason, I had to take the weight off to do this work.

It wasn't like I was clinically depressed, but I was so down. I think I was probably depressed. Nothing went my way since college, and I put my head down and kind of pitied myself. That wasn't the right way to go.

All depression is fear-based.