Quotes About Overcoming

In my career, I was on teams that started 11-0 and 13-0 before losing. I can tell you right now that our streak-breaking losses didn't happen because we weren't the best team on the field. The truth is, we let little things creep in: a holding call here, a false start there.

If you get yourself in a hole, you dig yourself out.

We found ourselves in a hole that I didn't dig, but I have dug, dug and dug to try to get out of that hole.

My dad was a street kid for seven years - he was homeless.

If I can make it through homelessness, I can make it through anything.

I think anybody that has had a bad game, or, I dunno, I guess if you go out golfing and you hook a couple balls, are you thinking about it until you get it figured out?

I have seen some horrible stuff said about me.

I've never really let any kind of negative things affect me, generally. I would take a positive out of the most desperately horrible situation.

One year in the hospital will make you strong. It made me strong.

My biggest fears aren't with my work. My biggest fears are walking through hospital doors. Once you can face that, being fearless about your work is easy.

I first found out I had cancer on my eye and lost an eye to this disease when I was 16, and I've since had cancer in my kidneys and pancreas and a host of other areas.

My mother raised two children on a housing estate, in a place where people said once you got on, you never got off. And she believed in me. So when people tell you that you can't, you can.

Nobody believed in us. Everybody made fun of Houston basketball. I can't say I blamed 'em.

I think my failures in Houston is what made me who I am. I think it's given me that drive, that drive to keep working, because you never know what can happen type deal.

I have become down-hearted, I have become discouraged, I have become depressed. I'm just like you. I'm a human being and I have my problems.

When you have a bit of a down period and everything isn't going so well, you stay humble and you just want to prove everybody wrong, and I hope I can do that.

Reading aloud could be humiliating, I was shy about doing it. Bear in mind I failed my English GCSE and A levels, which goes to prove that if I can embrace it, so can anyone.

You're 5 feet nothing, a hundred and nothing.

Falling down doesn't matter, even if you do it a hundred times. All that matters is that you get up again.

I've failed hundreds of thousands of times.

We've all seen that every challenge we've gone through, we've learned something from. It's not getting hung up on the challenges but figuring out how to get ahead.

A lot of people are really hung on the past - they can't get past that - but you've gotta get past that if you want any future.

Most beautiful, good things were done by women people scorn.

I was the girl who battles oblivion and won. The chances were about 1 percent, but I did it.