Quotes About Overcoming

Because of you, I'm running out of reasons to cry.

I think I'm in the best place I've ever been in so many ways. I've just come out of five years of very difficult times for numerous reasons and yet at the same time it's lead to such growth. It's very exciting that way.

You don't quit after you get beat. You pick yourself up, and you start rebuilding to accomplish your goals.

It is difficult to go on the next night after you receive a sandbagging.

Every day I receive messages that I'm not good enough, that I should lose my job.

Most people would have given up when faced with all the criticism I've received over the years.

I've had to recover not only from a single well-publicized incident, but several years of press aftermath.

Once I got the Jaipor leg, it took me 3 years of physiotherapy to recover and feel normal again.

It's never about the screwup - it's always about the recovery. That's the thing about it... if it comes out a little rare you call it carpaccio. It comes out a little overcooked, you shred it up and put in on a sandwich.

'Higher Power' was the result of a personal experience: a friend of mine who went through the process of addiction and recovery. It's a very, very tough thing - very easy to become addicted and very, very hard to become a recovering addict.

I want to go down as a champion who redeemed himself, made up for letting everyone down and regained his self-respect.

I turned my life around. I have completely redeemed my life.

I have to believe there's redemption in the darkest of circumstances; otherwise it's too bleak for me.

Who doesn't like a redemption story?

If you got a disability or a handicap, that means you're limited to certain things. And I don't feel like I'm limited to nothing. I can do anything anybody else can do.

God never gives us more than we can handle. Everything that comes our way is coming our way so that we can grow and evolve.

God, he deals you blows that at sometimes you think you can't handle and in the last year there have been things that we thought we couldn't handle but we've dealt with it up until this point.

I've had great success and I've had catastrophic failure. It's really how you handle the rough stuff that defines you, I think.

A lot of people out there get hounded about things that are going on in their lives. You just find ways to handle it and go on about your business.

In sports, you deal with disappointment often, but it's how you handle it and come back from it that shapes you. All these lessons are transferable to life and have really helped me with the adversities I've had to deal with in life.

The more crap you have had to deal with in your life, the better you are at handling 'Big Brother.'

I was on my death bed, and I remember hanging on to these words, 'Don't be scared. You are going to live an amazing life,' and I have.

Nobody expected me to finish Cub Swanson the way I did. When you see something like that, even I say, 'You're finally here. You're not only hanging with the best of the best, you're finishing them.'

As much as it's been difficult to tell my story over and over again, it has been the best thing that has ever happened to me.