Quotes About Overcoming

Fighting cancer taught me more than I ever could have imagined, but I've beaten it.

Great players, they start becoming immune to what the defense does to them.

Not many people get up after a setback or two. But those who do make the impossible come true.

People might have the impression I had an easy life, but it's been anything but that.

We all carry our past. But it is a case of getting on with your life and improving it, if you want to.

The scandal happened and I made the best of it. I kind of feel like in the end it was a blessing.

Failure usually works for me in the end.

I was part of the Australia team that lost the first Test at Edgbaston in 1997 and yet came back to win the series quite comfortably in the end.

What happened in the past is just that, the past. Champion or not.

Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn't.

I'm not incapable of going through things.

I worked at a shoe store on 86th Street called Orva, in the hosiery department because nobody went there. That's where they put me because I was too incapable of doing anything.

In 2010 I had to learn to walk again when I had my legs made the same length, after living with one leg two inches longer than the other until the age of 51.

I have to say that I got off very easy. There were incidents.

On New Year's Day 2008 I had two bailiffs turn up on my doorstep and because I had so little income I had not been paying bills, and I respect the concept of paying bills, I'm very much in favour of it, I just couldn't quite get it together.

If you start to dwell on your pain, the amount of pain will increase.

The flesh and bone leg is just beautiful. It's elegant. You know, when it's working, it's incredible. But if it's not working, well, you know, your life is certainly far from over.

When I heard 'incurable'... incurable is a tough word.

Getting past my past... was a process, a very serious process indeed.

As with reference-class forecasting, the big hurdle to black swan management is overcoming uniqueness bias. If you imagine that your project is so different from other projects that you have nothing to learn from them, you will overlook risks that you would catch and mitigate if you instead switched to the outside view.

Listen to me he said. You are not to look upon yourself as victims or victims you will surely be.

There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.

she runs for her life because to slip up is to begin descending the slippery slope to giving in to failure, to inertia, to feeling sorry for herself about that moment in her life which still creeps to the front of her memory when she least expects it

she surprised herself at the strength of her grief