Quotes About Overcoming

When you have a lousy football team, you learn to be funny.

I didn't think I was going to make it as a footballer.

I've been through a lot and played for a long time, so I can understand what others will go through. That's why I want to help them out. There are a lot of players who go to Belgium, for example, and have had terrible experiences. I know players, and they have come to me.

Being a foreigner bad guy doesn't have to be my destiny, and I can be much more than that.

I really forget that I have no arms or legs sometimes.

I'm not a good storm-outer... because I forget stuff.

My thing with failure, just forget about it and get up and do it again.

Dear friends: faith and forgiveness is much more powerful than napalm could ever be.

I call myself a FFP: former fat person, and when you're an FFP, you will always see in yourself what people used to bully you for.

I was broke into my forties.

After everything I've been through - the foster care, the losing my parents and stuff like that, I was never one to kind of go, 'I'm gonna just not try.' I used it all as ammunition.

I was painfully initiated into boxing, because the guys I fought were a lot bigger than me.

When I first fought in the U.S., the size of the crowd was something I was not used to seeing, but you get used to it.

I was the No. 1 player in high school. I was a lottery player at Duke. I was player of the year in the ACC as a freshman. People just forget about these things, like I don't deserve to be in the league.

I am very driven by things that scare and frighten me, and things that might be tough for me.

I discovered that the world frightens you with your shortcomings, but if you do not worry about it, you are liberated.

I used to be very frightened of failure.

My hardest lesson has been my most fruitful, too: that when people don't believe in me, I can prove them wrong.

Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition.

I'm like anybody else. You get enough, you can get beat up. You can get hurt. You can get frustrated. You can get demoralized.

I always want to do my very best, and it's frustrating to have something hold me back.

It's always frustrating when you drop the ball. But you've got to go back out there, and you've got to put that play in the back of your head and keep on going.

When you're losing, and you're losing again, and you're losing 3... 4... 5 games in a row, it can be frustrating.

For me, when you're going in the late rounds you just always have that chip on your shoulder. At the end of the day, every team that didn't draft me - including the team that took me 203rd - everybody passed me a few times. And, for me, that kind of fueled me over the years.