Quotes About Overcoming

I used the same hand to pat my back and to pick me up when I get shattered after losing out on a film due to reasons except your credibility to that role.

I'm the guy who come through a lot of hard patches. I've seen a lot of hardships.

No matter what happens to us in life, we must get back on our feet and continue on the path.

I think all the bad things I have been through are in the past. I believe I am on the right path now, dealing with the people who can help me, the right kind of people.

I find myself so easily discouraged. It is pathetic how easily I can be discouraged - easily discouraged by resistance, easily discouraged by opposition, easily discouraged by hardness of heart, easily discouraged by blindness.

Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.

In November, 1964 when I was a patient at the Mayo Clinic I though seriously about killing myself.

Without a lot of college film, a lot of people had written me off already. When the Patriots called, I was pretty happy.

The road hasn't always been paved for me. People identify with that. Everybody passes through hard times, and I think that's part of my appeal - that I have, too.

I'm not saying 'I have cerebral palsy, pay attention to me.' We all have problems, and we have to figure out how to live our best life.

We need to not pay attention to those stupid kids who would drop their food trays on me in the cafeteria. Because, you know what? They don't matter anymore.

It takes a strong person to admit he's got problems. Things are bugging you, you've got to get it out. Life is supposed to be peaches and cream, but it doesn't turn out that way. I sometimes found things confusing and sometimes didn't understand how things can be so difficult.

I couldn't write because my nervous system was so bad - I couldn't even use a pen.

One penalty miss doesn't change anything.

It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.

Everything people say I couldn't do I've done.

It can beat an artist down when people say bad things about you.

People say you have to hit rock bottom, and, I can tell you, almost dying is as rock bottom as it gets.

I'd been fired by CBS News in a semipublic way, and as the months went by, there was a perception that I was damaged goods.

I haven't had a perfect life.

I've learned how my own perfectionism can cripple me.

I've dealt with bigger things than the odd performance, dealt with a hell of a long time out of the game from an injury which shouldn't have kept me out for that long. I've had to deal with fears of not playing again, I'm a bigger man for it and I will be better for it in the future.

You don't get many periods in your life when it all goes your way.

One of the main reasons I started writing these one-man shows was that this really evil casting director once said to me, 'you're peripheral and you'll always be peripheral. You'll come in with the zingers and have very little to do, so just accept that and take the money.'