Quotes About Overcoming

People have told me that I'm courageous, but I have seen greater courage.

In high school, I could get beaten up all the time, or I could be something better. I became the court jester.

Winning covers a lot of bad things.

I had five black eyes. I have a cracked rib. I have scars that are just amazing.

A couple of times, I felt like I was cracking and I couldn't go on, and God would put another person in my place to help me.

Crap happens, you know? It happens, especially when you're in this sport long enough.

My mom got shot. My dad got shot. Some of the craziest stuff. All that happened to me.

I cringe when I watch myself on camera. I'm not articulate, and I'm dyslexic, but somehow it works.

Here's how I look at it: Life is full of challenges. Everybody has them. For some, it's health or family crises. I had a financial challenge.

Everyone has a cross to bear. Sometimes I have to take the splinters out of my shoulders.

I think the world is crumbling when I have a bad game.

There is always the person who's got to stand on the sandcastle, they must crush it.

If you always have a crutch, you don't learn anything.

When I was playing in Santa Cruz or Mogi Mirim, they told me I was not the best. Nobody believed in me. The others would always be the top stars. But I did not let that get me down.

I broke my back, I broke my ankle. I didn't cry then.

I cry all the time.

I've always been good at putting things behind me - I fall apart, do my crying bit and then put it away and move it.

Winning always cures all.

I always feel fear, even just in daily life I feel fear.

If you went and found my draft bio, I wasn't supposed to play left tackle, and I sure as hell wasn't supposed to play it for 12 years.

I really carried that seventh-round tag with me my whole career, even at the end.

At one stage, I just wanted to play one Test for India. People used to say I was just a T20 bowler, a limited-overs bowler. All these tag lines were doing the rounds but I did want to make a difference.

I have Tourettes and Aspergers, but Tourrets and Aspergers don't have me. You know, I'm doing what I can to suppress it and I don't let it take advantage of me. It's not who I am. You know, I'm James Durbin. Like I said in the beginning, I am here to show America who I am, and it is what it is.

I can't begin to describe the amount of crap I've taken for being a lousy free-throw shooter.