Quotes About Overcoming

I only had two scholarship offers with Tennessee State being one of them. That put a lot on my shoulders - not having the same opportunities as some other guys I knew - and it didn't feel like many people had much faith in me as a basketball player.

My mother is a fighter. After she battled polio and learned to walk again, the doctors told her she would be a cripple her entire life. Instead of accepting defeat, she refused this fate and went on to become the West African Women's Singles tennis champion in college.

I've been kicked in the teeth more times in tennis than the law ought to allow.

For the first couple of years I played really bad tennis. It was so bad that they booed me off the court.

I used to be tense or nervous before heats. But I've learned to get rid of the negative stuff and just stay relaxed and positive - and it seems to be working for me.

What happened in my past happened. What's the term - don't cry over spilled milk? That's the thing people don't understand. I'm all right. I configured myself into coming out on the other end OK. I can disassociate myself.

Pressure is a terminology that doesn't align with my life. Where I come from, the pressures are totally different.

I used to think of myself in terms of who I'd be if I didn't have this pesky old disability.

First time I had my defeat, it was very hard to come to terms with.

It seems as if, for every dragon head that is lopped off, two more terrible appear. Seems so. But in truth, Life is gaining all the while. Brute force, such power as there seems to be in things, cannot stand against ideas which are eternal.

I don't consider myself a survivor; that's someone who has gone through something terrible.

I've always been loving and outgoing, and wanted to be happy. Just because you're born disabled, it doesn't mean you have to end up having a terrible life. You make choices and you can choose to embrace life. Bloody hell, it's up to you!

I mean, I felt terrible. And in the beginning, I mean, I was completely devastated. I mean, can you imagine the kind of guilt that you would feel, and the responsibility?

I had a terrible manager once who described my career as 'spiraling downward.'

When I first started auditioning I would stutter a lot because I was so terribly frightened.

I've been terrified of the water, and yet it seems I'm forced to go into in on every movie that I make.

Most of my life I was particularly terrified of speaking up, because I had a speech impediment, which made it difficult to pronounce certain letters, sounds, and I felt like I was fine writing on the page, but once I got on stage, I was worried my words might jumble and stumble.

Growing up, I used to think I'd never get on a plane - I was terrified. But when I joined Mis-Teeq, being on a plane was my job. I used to scream on flights. Full-on screams.

Always, when I get onto horseback, I'm kind of terrified of being up there.

I'm so terrified to write that I don't type at all.

I'd spent life so terrified of failure that when it happened, it was very liberating.

For a long time I was terrified of dogs, but now I get so much pleasure from them.

I've just always been terrified of having to speak in front of people. When I used to go in school and then I had to do a report in front of the class and speak, I would freeze up, sometimes I would even like tear up almost and start crying and stuff... couldn't deal.

When I started out, I was very shy, I was terrified of meeting strangers and I hated the lime-light.