Quotes About Overcoming

You can't live in fear of preventing mistakes.

My brokenness has made me become more primal, more instinctual.

I don't think you can climb Mount Everest with a broken leg, but I did break my leg prior to going to Mount Everest, so I was really climbing with a healing broken leg. I had the good fortune of climbing the highest mountain on each of the seven continents. That was a goal that I had.

At the height of my career, prior to the injuries, I never thought I could break the barrier of Federer, Nadal, Djokovic and Murray, and now I did it with everything that happened.

People always think about what prison is. What prison really is - it's not a physical challenge, it's mental.

In my mind, there was never a thought that I wasn't going to find a way to get myself out of prison.

I've spent most of my life in prison. I was a prisoner of my fear and my low self-esteem.

Even through all those Pro Bowls, at the end of the day, I was always just a seventh-round pick.

You paid attention to every cornerback that was drafted before you. You always tried to outperform those guys. And for me, that's always been in the back of my mind - starting with not being invited to the combine, of wanting to make sure I had a good Pro Day and then getting drafted at the end of the sixth round.

There is no problem so big it cannot be run away from.

Every problem seems like a mountain to me, and when I'm fit, I feel like I can conquer anything. When the opposite happens, I go into a funk. A real, real funk.

I'm just trying to say that it should reassure us that the inevitable traumas of being human do end up producing some good. Otherwise, the human condition is overwhelmingly depressing.

If I allowed fear to dictate my life, I would not be productive.

I think I'm well on the way of overcoming a very big hurdle that's been in my way for several years. Which is trying to find a way to not let the insecurity of my profession get the better of me and make me crazy. I'm trying to find a way to maintain my own personal balance in the midst of everything.

Losing an election is very difficult. I've lost an election myself, and it was very difficult.

Any manager can go through a really difficult time.

I've got a history in my life of difficult times.

I am a guy who likes to put the bad things and difficult times behind me.

We had a lot of difficult times at Granada.

We learn so much from difficulties.

I think everybody encounters difficulty. It's just more pitched in some people.

People tell me their own stories about how they have come through great difficulty.

Sometimes I think the most difficult moments in life were actually good because they made me strong. I was a child labourer. From this, I learned to stand on my own feet. So I don't want to forget the difficulty of my life.

I'm very confident that God has a way of bringing good from difficulty.