Quotes About Overcoming

If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.

I'm a big believer in 'pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start again.'

To have the ability to look back on the problems that weren't big problems after all is something I think we can all learn from.

I told myself that I needed to clean myself up big time.

For me, my biggest thing, my biggest mantra, is winning.

The win is the biggest thing.

When things don't go your way, it bites you from within, and you have to find a way to get out of it.

I can't believe I beat James Blake.

People tell me I'm not supposed to do the things that I do at my size. I just take it as a blessing.

Undrafted players who get to the door and don't have their name called. It's a blessing.

We can put fear of the future in front of us to block us, or behind us to drive us forward. I feel like telling all the people who look like me to start trying to write. You don't know it's possible because it's not often in front of you.

When you are through with the blues, you've got nothing to rest on.

When bombing is going on, you see a lot of people screaming around you and you can't do anything if you're small. You just want to break out of that and be strong.

Words are just words. They only bother you if you let them.

Only once did someone talking about my appearance bother me.

I have learned a lot about myself and come to deal with a lot of things that, at first, bothered me.

Earlier, every time I wouldn't get a roll, I would always take it in my head, and let it under my skin. And I would always get bothered with it.

Everyone has a rock bottom.

You win some, you lose some; it's all about can you bounce back.

When boxers are in the ring, they're simple. It's when the fight is over, that's when the other fight, the real fight, begins. That's the problem.

The main thing I got wrong in boxing was that I could do all the right things, but I didn't believe I could do it, and that's a big chink in your armor.

I've not had a career like Brady or Rodgers with all the Super Bowls and the incredible things they've done. But for me, the adversity made me who I am.

I think sometimes that people think brave means not being afraid, which of course it doesn't mean that at all. It means that you're afraid, but you move past that and do it anyway, do what you think is right.

Honestly, for me only playing 14 minutes my rookie year and breaking my leg. To be able to play all 82, that was really cool for me... That was, for me, a huge accomplishment. Something I'm really proud of for sure.