Quotes About Overcoming

I think, for me, I just keep feeling the need to prove yourself, and thats probably from having a slightly overpowering father.

They have learned that resistance is actually possible. The holds are beginning to slip away.

I had a one day slip, Matt. So what do you do? You get up and you go on, and you try not to do it again.

I made a choice before I lost my legs that I was going to live the best life possible and that I wasn't going to let this slow me down - and that choice has kept me moving forward.

I've dealt with adversity before, had injuries before. I didn't let that slow me down. It just changed my attitude about the game.

I had a slow couple of years and people forgot about me.

A lot of people don't believe in me. They think I'm too small for heavyweight. Just like a lot of people told me long ago that I shouldn't box. That I wasn't going to make it. I just knock my head and say I'm capable. I can do it.

War made my everyday problems seem much smaller, and when it is hard sometimes, I just remember that it could be much worse.

Having had polio never held me back as I got older. Although having one leg smaller than the other isn't much fun, I could always get about without any trouble. Luckily, in the music industry, everyone was only interested in my singing and playing and not the size of my legs.

I'm kind of a smaller guy in my given profession, and people always told me I'm too small, so I know how it feels to have people tell you you'll never be anything.

I'm used to going out amongst giants and being the smallest linebacker.

Coming out of college, I wasn't considered the fastest, the biggest or the smartest. There was no way around that.

I think I'm really powerful. They'll smash me, probably.

You want to get better even after people smash you down. You want to be better than you were before.

I would try to promote something that I loved, and the entire interview would be about my personal life. I would leave a room feeling defeated, feeling embarrassed, but I would always make sure to put that smile on my face because I wasn't going to let them get to me.

It's always something; it's never going to be something that's pleasing. People will always find something to say, and once you become comfortable with that, you can walk away and smile.

It took a long time for me to put a smile on my face over the course of my lifetime, and my experience of what I've been through on and off the field.

There have been times in my career when people thought I was a pushover, especially as they saw me as this smiley guy.

The final phone call that said we're going to be picked up again was just a miracle. We've overcome the impossible and we're still pushing forward. I know John is smiling and so happy that he gets to watch us on TV.

The highs in my career have been overcoming the problems and smiling at them and getting on.

I have always had a very smooth driving style. But when I started competing as a disabled driver, I had to take that even more to the extreme.

When I ski, I take both of my legs off and get into a sit ski: a ski with a custom seat that has been molded for me. I use my core and arms to propel myself on snow with help from ski poles.

The way I look and the shape I am in, I've had so many people tell me, 'You'll never make it because of the way you look.' But that never stopped me - it may even have motivated me a little.

So many people have gone through the experience of not feeling good enough.