Quotes About Overcoming

Once I started feeling better and healthier and learned to walk on my first prosthetic leg, I realised I'm not going to be satisfied with just walking around.

Today, I don't have any psychological scars, because I am a realist and an optimist. After all, I can't lose my legs twice.

Experiences don't make us damaged goods; it's what we do with those experiences that matters.

I failed, got back up. I failed, got back up.

I learned that you can accomplish so much, no matter what the limitations may be. You just gotta believe to achieve.

I've finally gotten to a place where I can say, 'You know what? You didn't think I could do it, people.' But I did it.

I really feel like my story in modern day times is very similar to a biblical story: you know, somebody that nobody expected, that everybody said couldn't, and by God's grace and power, I was able to accomplish a lot.

I give as much detail as I do about the bad times because people out there don't know that others have been through hell but then through the process of amazing grace. You hope that someone out there will hear what you have to say, and that it may matter.

You know that feeling when your leg falls asleep and you can't really feel it or move it? Well, that's what my legs feel like all the time, so being fluid and graceful has been difficult.

I was allergic to school. I was completely befuddled by school. I was trying so hard, but I couldn't succeed. I took geometry for four years, the same course over and over again, and I did not graduate with my senior class. I finally passed geometry after doing summer school, and eventually, I graduated.

I graduated college with a 3.5 GPA, when I came into college barely able to get in.

I barely graduated high school.

When it was over, I was so happy, I felt like crying. I wanted to win this one for Casey. After what I did in Brooklyn, he could have forgotten about me and who would blame him? But he gave me another chance and I'm grateful.

I've had a couple great moments in my career, I beat Cro Cop, I won the Pride belt.

At the end of the day, the great ones - well, they rise, and that's what I want to do.

With grief, you know, the only way to get through it is through it.

Sometimes you have to hit rock bottom to think: 'Blimey, Ricky, get a grip.'

I kept going. The decisions I've had to make, the setbacks, the feeling of having my back against the wall, I was determined that I had the grit.

When I had an accident in 2006, no one believed that I will return to the ground, but I did.

With loss comes growth.

I think it's good that I get scared because, if you never get scared, you don't have any need for guts.

I came from nothing really to something; I came from the gutter to making the gutters.

Without the lessons I learned in gymnastics, I would be crushed.

You have to forgive me because I have a habit of not winning things.