Quotes About Overcoming

I need to learn how to face challenges.

I came from the bottom. Now I'm the main event and UFC champion.

In difficult moments, champions come through, and not by listening to what is being said.

I went from almost not playing in the NBA to playing on a championship team.

I have three championships in a country where I don't speak the language.

I try to focus on using my energy to change things, but there are times when I feel so bad.

From the first day I left Chelsea, it was always in my mind to make them wrong. I made them wrong.

I didn't have a childhood.

I see the hate, what some people say, but I just prove them wrong at the end of the day because I show everyone what I can do. Some people don't want me to succeed but you just have to take it on the chin.

I don't have a chip on my shoulder. I have a boulder on my shoulder.

There is no chip coming off of my shoulder because, at the end of the day, you're still going to continue to be doubted.

The one-word story about why I have a chip on my shoulder is 'bullying.'

I don't have chips on my shoulders, I have bricks.

I've had, you know, my leg chopped off.

I was told I wasn't good enough, but I just chose not to listen.

I learned that if we set our mind to things, we can accomplish almost anything no matter what the circumstances are.

I don't think of myself as Superman, but if a genie came up to me now and granted me a wish to take my legs back, for sure I would take them - but it would take some time to accept.

There have been moments when I was physically strained, but I have overcome the hardships by staging performances and receiving support from our members and fans.

There were times when I was down and frustrated being in a male-dominated sport: you don't get the support. It affected me. Layne Beachley helped me beat that. That was the difference for me and helped get me through.

I am so much more than what happened to me. I'm a mother and a businesswoman; I run a charity that supports others overcoming adversity; and, most importantly, I'm happy.

Statistics say that I'm supposed to be in jail. And I'm not supposed to be alive.

To be great we need to win games we aren't supposed to win.

God's been pretty good to me. He made me duck all those punches that were supposed to land.

Scoring two goals at against Wembley against a Dutch team that was supposed to rip us apart and ripping them apart - it doesn't get any better than that.