Quotes About Overcoming

My best friend used to make fun of me about the camps I wasn't invited to, and I used to get mad. He was just always better, always the favorite. I was always the one in the shadow that everybody was like, 'He's not good enough. Might not even make it to college.'

It would be fair to say that the start of my life in Manchester was not perfect, but there have been many other times when I've had setbacks, and I have never given up.

After a couple bouts with cancer and everything, black cats are nothin', you know?

I've heard all my life how I'm too short or not big enough to play this game. It's nothing new.

It's important not to get hung up on the notion that everyone who has an injury is trying to dodge it.

How could God give me a dream, a dream of going to Notre Dame, a dream of becoming somebody, and I'm a dummy, I'm nobody.

Everyone has a bad day now and then.

I was morbidly obese. It was a way for me to create a shell around me so that nobody would look at me.

I considered obesity a disease. It can destroy you from within. It almost destroyed me, and I do not want that to happen to anybody.

I think too many obituaries have been written about me.

Everybody in life has something that they get knocked down on. The object lesson here is not that you get knocked down - it is that you get up.

We're a sport that was in obscurity for so long, we started to get used to that.

I don't believe in giving up. Though there are a lot of obstacles, heartaches and disappointments, you shouldn't allow these things to break you.

I'm frightened a lot. I feel like it's caused me a lot of obstacles.

I am out to prove that there are no obstacles for the disabled.

Every walk that I do, there's obstacles in the way. There's always somebody or something that comes across negative, but I live for that sort of thing.

I've learned at the book signings that everyone has obstacles.

That's been the story of my life - obstacles: trying to figure a way over them, around them, under them; sometimes you have to go straight through them.

Little obstacles, if they don't go my way, I really don't even get down. I've been through so much.

I've come over so many obstacles over the years, so now when things get chucked at me, I know that I can get through to the other side with the mindset that I've got.

Many shoulder heavy burdens of righteous responsibility which, on occasion, seem so difficult to bear. I have heard those challenges termed impossible.

I've been homeless on a few occasions.

Every person, if he is to have mental health and live successfully, must move away from past failures and mistakes and go forward without letting them be a weight upon him. The art of forgetting is absolutely necessary.

when the old fears, hates, and worries that have haunted you for so long try to edge back in, they will in effect find a sign on the door of your mind reading "occupied.