Quotes About Overcoming

When opportunities and possibilities feel foreclosed upon, when you're living with limitations, as I was, you have to find creative workarounds to exist, to hold on to some sense of self, to explore new parts of yourself that are emerging.

I don't ever think in terms of losing. That's not even a possibility. I've been beaten once, and I don't ever want to experience that again.

Anything is possible. My background is a bad background, but a lot of people said I couldn't do it. You can do anything if you put your mind to it.

In 'Poster Boys,' I played a character that no one would have thought that I could portray. The film helped me focus on work, and I worked so hard on it that even though it didn't do well, I didn't let it bring me down.

I used to be 400 pounds.

I mean, to be honest with you, my whole career I've guarded players that have outweighed me by 30 pounds. Period, 'Melo to LeBron.

I did speak to a counsellor after hitting rock bottom. It really did help, talking to somebody that didn't know me and just pouring my heart out to them in a few sessions.

I consider adversity being good sometimes, you know.

I think I have an addiction to pretty much everything. I mean, I have to be very careful with myself as far as that goes, which is why I have a support group around me consistently.

It's true that stammerers can become more adept at sentence construction.

I want people to learn from me, see I'm human, and understand that I make mistakes just like they do, but it doesn't have to consume you. You've got to walk through the raindrops, and that's totally what I am trying to do.

Contests, I used to look at as a chance to fail. I turned my mind-set around.

When I realized I can actually lift and drop someone, I was convinced I have become stronger.

People ask, how do you cope, and all I can say is that you do.

Don't worry about what happens when things go wrong; just accept that they're going to, and figure out how do you want to cope with it when it does.

I've never been a depressive, but I felt quite close to the edge at times. But you never know what's around the corner. Mercifully, what's around the corner is joy.

People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of compensatory excesses.

My own belief is that people can come back from anything. It doesn't mean that it won't come at a huge cost.

When you've been told in ways large and small your whole life that your voice doesn't matter and that you don't count, it's not an easy thing to get over.

My whole life I've worked. My whole life I've been counted out.

I've been counted out a lot of times, but always find a way to win.

I feel like I was counted out, you know, my first two seasons in the NBA. They might not have been perfect, but I'm proud of them.

I had a couple of car accidents when I was in my early 20s, and I used to have such a bad back.

I went through a long period where I was afraid of doing things I wanted to do, and you get your courage back, which is what's important.