Quotes About Overcoming

They killed my character off and as God would have it, just when they told me I would never work again, I got cast in a little program called Roots, and as they would say, the rest is history.

There's no perfect program. And everyone deals with stuff. You know, when you're Ohio State or some of these other big-time programs, stuff becomes a major deal.

The only way to beat Georges St-Pierre, there's two ways: knock him out, or do the same thing he does to everyone else, and guess what, my wrestling is good enough to make sure I can do what he does to everyone else. I promise you that.

I don't want to be that guy they say that's injury prone.

I'm living proof that you can make it out of the ghetto.

I was written off as a lost cause. But I'm living proof that miracles can happen.

I am proof that one person can rise above any challenge, and if I can, then so will others if they are given the chance.

I'm gonna write a book. I'm going to explain over the past 30 years of my life of things that I endured and what I went through. And when I do, I promise you with everything that I am that people will not believe me. But I have factual proof of everything that has happened to me, and I have been able to overcome.

My whole thing now is I know how to think properly to be successful in all aspects of my life. It's not about ultra running or being a SEAL or pull-up records: it's about if you want to be better you, have to change your perceived limitations and take the barriers down.

There was a time when I was not able to speak properly because of my medical condition. But I managed to fight against all those odds.

I have two prosthetic legs. This is my life; what am I going to do with it? And it's put me on this amazing journey. I can look back and be completely grateful and say I would never want to change anything.

I sit down in a chair, and I take off my two heavy little prosthetic legs and I crawl on my knees to the edge of the pool and I just jumped in, and I just instantly loved it.

At 18 months old, both of my lower legs were amputated so I could be fitted with prosthetic legs and learn to walk.

My early family life was incredibly happy but I was very, very protected and very much living in a bubble. I was born with my legs bent inwards and clawed feet.

I'm proud of the way I've dealt with setbacks. It's hard when you feel down and you think, 'Why is the world doing this to me?' But you have to pick yourself up again. That's what makes you a better athlete.

There's always a little bit of personal satisfaction when you prove somebody wrong.

I have to prove myself five times over.

I grew up being really insecure and dumped on, over-feeling certain things in a negative way. So I thought I had something to prove.

I came to Chelsea and it was 'oh you can't play Champions League, you can't do this, you can't do that' and I proved them wrong.

Obviously, we've proved a lot of skeptics, who thought we'd be gone after a record or two, wrong.

You can make something out of nothing. I proved that with my career, making it out of the city that I'm from.

People said I couldn't gig, and I proved them wrong.

I guess people looked at me in college, said I couldn't shoot or play defense. I proved them wrong.

I proved to myself that I can overcome a lot of things that probably would have broken some people.