Bibi Bourelly Quotes

The trials and pressures of life--and how we face them--often define us. Confronted by adversity, many people give up while others rise up. How do those who succeed do it? They persevere. They find the benefit to them personally that comes from any trial. And they recognize that the best thing about adversity is coming out on the other side of it. There is a sweetness to overcoming your troubles and finding something good in the process, however small it may be. Giving up when adversity threatens can make a person bitter. Persevering through adversity makes one better.

There's not an instruction manual on how to deal with success, so you just have to rely on having great friends and a good team.

Success is more difficult to handle than failure.

When I came up as a United States Attorney, I had no real support group. I didn't prepare myself well in 1986, and there was an organized effort to caricature me as someone I wasn't. True. It was very painful. I didn't know how to respond and didn't respond very well.

Life gives no one immunity against adversity, but life gives to everyone the power of positive thought which is sufficient to master all circumstances of adversity and convert them into benefits.

Everyone is going to face challenges. What defines you is how you overcome those.

You can be absolutely certain that when you feel you are being most unfairly tested, you are being prepared for great achievement.

I've been living with the minor second all my life and I finally found a way to handle it.

I've learned a lot from the experiences that I went through in high school, through college and overseas, and just everything in life. That is what prepared me for coming into the NBA, being undersized, no recognition, not getting anything easy, and I have been fortunate to prosper in this league.

I had gained so much confidence through my college achievements that I wanted to tackle the world.

It's been said of me that I must get out of bed every morning and go cartwheeling down the road. Of course it's not true. There certainly was a time in my 20s when I wanted a bit of freedom, and I found that difficult, but if I'm ever having a time when I'm feeling sorry for myself, something always jolts me back.

I mean, the things you think will never happen, you have to confront; those things that come into your life that you thought you never could deal with, you do.

I think with challenges, you either overcome them or you fall behind and become a statistic.

In my own life, I believe it was an early education in poetical metaphor that helped me to grapple with and make sense of all the difficult and traumatic things that were to come.

You know, you have to have some inner philosophy to deal with adversity.

Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.

I think it's always the moments that are the trials that end up making you become a hero in the end. You're not a hero unless you've gone through the trials. And it makes these moments so much sweeter, so much better. I don't believe in 'deserved,' but I might believe in 'earned.'

During the rocky times, it never occurred to me that one day I would hold a position of respect and responsibility in the community.

My comfort wasn't the most important thing - my getting through to the other side of difficult feelings was. However long it might seem to take, and however unfair it might seem, it was my job to do it.

I am just a regular dude who happened to make it. That's all I am, man. Maybe I was preparing myself in some lifetime to become this person, but I never thought I'd have every rocket shooting off at one time.

We are all different. We all have different circumstances, and you have to cope with whatever it is, try not to dwell on things.

I understand that ups and downs in life keep wavering, and it's important to understand them and why they happen. So I learn whatever I have to and then move forward.

Was I hurt sometimes? Yeah. But not to the point where I couldn't play. I think we all go through it. Some guys escape it. Some guys don't. There's no secret formula.

You know what you have achieved and what you have been through.

I have overcome many difficult moments in my career.