Quotes About Overcoming

People think I'm soft and bailed out on basketball. But it was five knee surgeries.

Give me soft, fluffy pancakes and I can get over anything.

Don't forget, I was the soft, pudgy kid in school that everyone made fun of.

I was so deep in red ink coming out of ECW that I had to make a good solid living just to get my nose above the water line because of ECW.

I had problems my entire life trying to make films. Problems come but you have to find a solution.

To overcome obstacles, you need solutions.

Of course, when you lose any game, the feeling is so bad. But you have to be professional and have to be clever and overcome this situation and try to work on that and try to fix the problem and solve for the next game.

Life's about dealing with adversity and solving problems.

What happened to me in Somalia doesn't define me.

I've done enough running from monsters. It's time to do some chasing.

Some things are impossible.

I think I learned to overcome some things in life through dance.

There are some things I cannot do as I did before the accident. Trying to do them the same way was impossible, and I was getting frustrated. Then one day I said to myself that I had to relearn those things and do them in a different way and see what was possible, and how it could be achieved.

Everybody's got some things that have happened bad in their past. Mine was just very public.

I went through some things that I shouldn't have had to go through. But I came out on the other side. I'm not bitter. I'm not jaded.

Everybody is going to have a bad game. One game does not decide somebody's season.

You show me anybody that's great in anything they do, I'll show you somebody that's persevered, demonstrated that mental toughness to overcome some obstacles and adversity.

Someday, I'll write a book about what I've been through.

A very close friend of mine keeps reminding me that since about the age of 50, I've been saying, 'I'm finished. I haven't got another one in me.' But somehow you do.

I was 23 years old, a freshman at university, and there I was, on the first day, sitting in a remedial English class. I was so ashamed I almost got up and left, but somehow I knew inside that if I ran away from this, I would hate myself forever.

We all have obstacles. The feeling of satisfaction comes by overcoming something.

He felt the quicksand of failure sucking at his feet, threatening to bury him, to drown him.Jeana E. Mann. Intoxicated (Kindle Location 2125).

They have a choice to hurt us but we have a choice to be free from pain...

As they say in New York, Get over it and, if you can't get over it, Get over talking about it.