Quotes About Overcoming

If I played a bad game, there's gonna be people out there that want to try to bring me down. But I always stay up.

If it were not for the bad things that've happened to me, I wouldn't be the person I am today.

I'm not the type of person who dwells too much on bad things.

Bad things can happen even to the best players.

Every manager goes through bad times.

It is alright when things are going well, but everyone always says it is how you deal with things when they are going badly.

I think the term 'hero' comes with a lot of baggage.

Manon' still feels like it didn't really happen, because it is such a mammoth ballet and I can't believe I did that.

Everybody drops balls every once in awhile. I just can't let it happen.

People had lost faith in me in Baltimore, and rightfully so. I knew that was not the guy I was.

Don't bang your head against the wall about what you can't do.

No matter who you are, and no matter what you've accomplished, I have yet to meet someone who doesn't still feel like they're banging their head against some wall over something in their way.

I was essentially bankrupt at the age of 16. That almost near-death experience kind of built the next success for me in business.

When you see somebody who always came so close, and they finally accomplish what they've been working for - to see someone excel and break through that barrier - it's a great moment not just for that athlete but for all of us.

I had the world against me. I was told I shouldn't be doing sport and that I wouldn't go to the Paralympics. I've had so many barriers.

If you have a bad day in baseball, and start thinking about it, you will have 10 more.

In football, however well you think you are doing, however well your life is going, there is always a mugger there lurking in the shadows to bash you over the head when you least expect it.

People categorise people as being disabled, and it's basically whatever you put your mind to, you can do, and everybody that has limitations, they can still do anything they want as long as they set their mind to it.

My own basketball background was ripping up my ACL in a lawyer's league.

I've spent too much of my life being made to feel like there's something wrong with me. And no matter how much support I felt as a basketball player at Baylor, it still doesn't erase all the pain I felt there.

I was a 'bathroom actor' and people used to laugh at me, listening to my lofty aims and ambitions.

I fight manic-depression, and I have been able to live battling that sadness that I get sometimes.

It's not quite as important who you beat as that you end up on top.

Now that I beat Lindsay I feel much better.