Quotes About Overcoming

I could never identify with that word, 'weak.'

An evil fate has deprived me of the full use of my right hand, so that I am not able to play my compositions as I feel them. The trouble with my hand is that certain fingers have become so weak, probably through writing and playing too much at one time, that I can hardly use them.

I am not brave. I am very weak. I am trying to overcome my problems. I do cry, I do break but I think that's normal.

I consider myself a little weak.

My chops have always been sort of weak, because the right side of my body was paralyzed a little bit. It was very limiting. I have to design stuff I can play, and it took me a year and a half to figure out how to hold a guitar pick.

For six years, from 1985 to 1991, I felt pretty weak and useless.

You can sit there and worry yourself sick if you're a mentally weak person.

I can't imagine Christ being weak and carrying on about his burdens to women, let alone an Oprah type of woman. We respect and believe in Christ because of the way he dealt with life and how he overcame evil with good. His strength and love encourages those sincerely seeking to believe in God.

I don't think I've the luxury of being weak. Being strong is my only option.

Anytime you have adversity or something that you self-inflict on yourself, you typically always have a chip on your shoulder to make sure that you're not the weak link.

That's one reason fans take to me. They like the battle side of it. They look at me and think this guy shouldn't be on the pitch, he's just bulldozing his way through.

Good pitchers, after a tough outing, bounce back. Real good pitchers don't let too many poor games get in there.

Most pitchers fear losing their fastball, but since I don't have one, I have nothing to fear but fear itself.

You know, it's just a matter of working through the pitfalls sometimes and working through the challenges that lie ahead.

I don't have much positive to say about motor neurone disease. But it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I could still do.

I've held a lot of pity parties for myself. There was a time when I never wanted to face the public again. I never wanted to face the press again. But God gave me healing gifts.

Ghetto isn't a place. Ghetto is more in the mind and how you feel about your life.

My goal is to keep going and reach as far as possible to beat all odds placed before me.

Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and overshadowed.

I'm honored to be a part of the #ShowEm campaign because it recognizes the importance of who we are at our core and what drives us to become who we want to be, no matter what obstacles we face. Jockey has given me a platform to show people that the impossible can be possible if you keep fighting and believing.

People said I'm too big to play football.

The chip comes from people saying I'm not good enough, or I can't score, or I'm not a real basketball player.

My favorite players in January aren't those living the charmed playoff life, but the guys who can get up when they're knocked down, who forget the last mistake so they can make the next big play.

There are going to be losses. There are going to be bad plays. There are going to be mistakes.