Quotes About Overcoming

All of a sudden, I don't have a leg. I'm in a wheelchair. I have half a foot; I can't even walk to the bathroom. I'm in a bed, I can't move, and I felt like those four walls were my prison.

I just want to get to the places I can't get in the wheelchair, you know? I want to stand up.

I was a volleyball player. After the accident, I played the sport in a wheelchair but never liked it. I wanted to live my life like a queen.

Wheels come off? Get on with it. Cope. Survive.

Whenever you're scared of something, don't let that define you. We all feel it, but step up.

Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.

Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them.

And more importantly, I wouldn't be the person I am today, I wouldn't be where I am now and I may not even have been here if it wasn't for the accident.

Determination Over Negativity is a belief that anything is possible no matter who you are or where you come from.

I'm so grateful for where I am now, but I think I'm more grateful because it's been so hard-won; I haven't given up, and I've had plenty of reasons to give up.

I still remember the days, not wanting to see anybody, not wanting to talk to anybody, really not wanting to live. I was on an express elevator to the bottom floor, wherever that might be.

There's always been adversity, wherever I've gone.

It's not whether you fall or make a mistake, it's what you do when you fall. And I say you stand up. You keep standing up. It's not how many times you fall, it's how many times you stand up.

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.

When hardships come into your life it breaks you for a while, but when it is done with you evolve into a new person.

While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.

The sword conquered for a while, but the spirit conquers for ever!

Being in a wheelchair for 30 years. I'm not whining about it because I don't dwell on things I can't do anything about, you know. I never really think about until somebody mentions it. I did take a bullet.

You set out to whip the world, and then, when you get beat up a little bit... In my case, you say, 'Father, I'm gonna let you have it. I've done what I can do.' You turn your will over to God.

If I'm on form and I'm not being bothered too much by mental problems or whatever, I can whip out something good. That's why I've done quite a few overdubs for Tina Turner and things like that, because even before she made this comeback I said yes to her, just because I love Tina Turner.

It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail.

I knew from day one, the truth would prevail, but I was so scared I didn't know what to do.

Just going out and seeing friends, not being cooped up in my house because I don't want to get my picture taken or anything like that - I've tried to let go of that stuff a bit, accept that it's going to happen to me, and not let it prevent me from doing anything I want to do, which I have in the past.

Sometimes the calls just don't go your way. You've just got to learn to deal with those situations and try to prevent yourself from being in the same situation the next game.