Quotes About Overcoming

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The body is amazingly plastic. The spirit, even more so. But there are some things you don't come back from.

Time is a lot of the things people say that God is. There's the always preexisting, and having no end. There's the notion of being all powerful—because nothing can stand against time, can it? Not mountains, not armies. And time is, of course, all-healing. Give anything enough time, and everything is taken care of: all pain encompassed, all hardship erased, all loss subsumed.

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I sell my problems. I'm a woman with problems. I've had problems since the day I was born. And I have found a way to turn my problems into assets.

I think people can't believe I can still walk and talk and get on the stage without assistance.

I wasn't a great athlete.

People still think I'm a bit of a buffoon - not really an athlete.

I had to start all the way down the divisions and that is really difficult. You might be playing well and having great performances - but nobody ever watched us.

Doctors didn't know what to do with me.

You can't always be on top and dominant throughout.

It's not just always going to be easy and winning games; you have to go through the downside as well.

Everyone said I would be a second-round pick or undrafted guy - that's all I heard coming to the draft - but I had a higher faith. I knew I was way better than that, better than how people pegged me.

That's what my life has been all about: Every time I get dropped, I come back and win.

I've been dropped. You get up, and you win the fight.

I'm very learning-disabled, and I think it drove me to what I'm doing.

A lot of people have tried to dull my light.

If you sit there and dwell on the fact that you did something... you will lose your mind.

I can't dwell on something that has nothing to do with football at all - it will hold me back.

If you're dyslexic I think it's very important to know that you can do anything you want and it's not simply because you're dyslexic that you should be shoved on the side.

I found peace through God but not until I had driven myself to the edge.

I've already been KO'd, embarrassed. Nothing is going to be worse than that, so what's to be scared of?

I feel like I learned that I am so much stronger than I ever thought I was, not just emotionally, but physically.

To go through the agonizing process of learning how to walk again and write again and speak again makes you much more empathetic to people.