Quotes About Overcoming

The biggest lesson I had in my life was failure.

You have to learn how not to be defined by failure.

My first film was a failure. I had many failures too. It's not easy dealing with it.

My failures have made me look at myself in a way I've never wanted to before.

Your enemies love your failures, sure. But what they love even more is to see you brought so low by those failures that you never get up again. Sometimes enemies aren't even external. Often, our biggest critic, our greatest enemy, is ourselves.

If you have to grow, you should face failures.

If you can force yourself to get through failures and pull something out of them, they can teach you a lot.

Everybody has fallen down or been disappointed in love. Where you truly shine is when you get back up.

I'm not afraid of falling and getting up the next day with a few bumps and bruises.

Falling down is a very big subject, and so is the concept of downfall. None of us escapes, and I have had my share of both.

Doors being closed or made harder to open is something I'm very familiar with - and I don't like it.

People who come from dysfunctional families are not destined for a dysfunctional life.

When you have bad teams, you've got to be creative to win games you're not supposed to win.

You think about when I went to Miami. I played as a freshman, I go in and compete to be a starter, I tear my ACL. Come back, I start, I get off to a good couple of games and I get hurt again. You hear everybody saying, 'Oh, he's done.' I get drafted in the third round. People still said I got drafted too high, saying I'll only play three years.

Getting a tear in my ACL in 2012 puts a lot of things in perspective about being able to play the game.

Having adaptive events televised in the X Games is huge. There are people out there who might want to do this but don't think they can. They can see us out here tearing it up. That's going to help people realize that if you want something bad enough, you can get there.

If I cry, it's because I'm very angry and I can't do anything about it because I've run into a dead end. That's when the tears would come down.

Pitching... sometimes I did so poorly, it brought me to tears.

I went through a lot of hard times. I went through a lot of struggle. A few times, I was in tears. It brought me to my knees just about.

All the energy, all the pain, sweat and tears that go into it, the amount I had to put in to get me to where I had to play, it was more taxing on me physically and mentally than it was good for me.

Shining through tears, like April suns in showers, that labour to overcome the cloud that loads 'em.

I've had to walk through a lot of my tears.

I really practiced hard and got to a certain level of technical proficiency. I overcame some of my limitations. I was a hard-working, dedicated bassoonist, but I have to say I'm not a natural musician.

One of my favorite things when I fight, even when I used to grapple and do jiu-jitsu, I would face opponents who were better than me technically but I would just stay on them and be as relentless and resilient as possible and eventually the gap would get a little bit closer and a little bit closer and a little bit closer.