Quotes About Overcoming

My first review for the TV movie The Bionic Showdown said I was as interesting as a bus ride.

I thought, 'As if I'm going to win a TV show, let alone get a record deal.' I'm going to go on TV with all these beautiful pop star-looking people? I'll never win.

I worked as bricklayer, operating forklifts, building scenes for TV shows. I did everything. When I worked at the TV, I told them I would come back one day to give interviews, and they laughed at me.

Some people have issues in their past that might make them tweak out at certain moments, but it's possible to snap back and be a real human being.

When I arrived, Bayern were sitting at 14th place in the Bundesliga and weren't in the Champions League. Twelve years later, I left with 23 titles.

I learned, by the time I was twenty, I'm not gonna die from a panic attack; you feel like you're going to.

When you live in the shadow of a big tree, you have to run twice as fast to get into the sunlight.

I've gone skydiving twice. I was terrified about doing it, but I wanted to overcome that. The first time, I did it with my parents and I remember that they had already both jumped out, and suddenly it was my turn. And I thought, 'Well, I don't want to be an orphan,' so I guess I have no choice, and I jumped out of the plane.

How can they beat me? I've been struck by lightning, had two back operations, and been divorced twice.

'Beyond the Lights' took incredible fight to get made. Four years of writing and two years of overcoming 'no.' Every studio balked. Twice. But I kept fighting. What gave me the courage was 'Love & Basketball.' Every studio turned down that film, too. But I never gave up because I believed in it with my whole heart and soul.

I've broken probably every major bone in my body. I currently have, in my body, fifteen pins and a plate. I've broken my femur, both wrists, both ankles - my left ankle twice. My tibia. Tore my rotator cuff.

Boxing changed my life twice.

When things are not going the way you want them to go, you start to press.

I know most people always thank people for believing in them - I actually want to thank people that didn't believe in me.

You should never be afraid of people... such fear can destroy us completely. You've simply got to get rid of it, if you want to turn into someone decent. You understand that, don't you?

You have those walls up all around you...Come a day you gonna want to tear them down brick by brick and gonna find that the cement is all hard. What you gonna do then?

Failure is an event, something that happens at a specific time on a certain day. If you want to be successful, you have to embrace failure and get back up every single time.

For people on my side of the cubicle, the goal is always creativity. Spending your time overcoming corporate resistance to creativity - I just don't want to do that.

See, the same old Ella still lives." He grins... "She just needed a little push out."... "No, she doesn't. She's gone forever." "Try all you want, but I'm bringing her back.

What will I become? Because I won't be me any longer. That will be a relief. I dont want to be the helpless person I've always been.

For so long, I was controlled and manipulated by other people. Whatever people think of me, I'm finally doing what I want to do.

I became a comedian because I didn't want to be bullied anymore. Onstage I was safe.

The whole thing is you don't want to be pigeon-holed as 'Oh, he's a guy in a wheel chair. He's very fragile. You better watch out.

It's good to have obstacles and difficulties, and to fail and have things not go the way you want. And then have to figure out how to keep moving forward.