Barry Keoghan Quotes

I surprise myself that I'm not dead in the gutter somewhere, surprised that I haven't given up.

When people tell you you're on the brink of death, you've got to dig pretty deep to get it together.

The death of my kid made me a stronger person. There's no end to what I'm willing to do.

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

It takes a lot of energy and creativity to make such screwed up lives carry on. And the kind of will people have to survive, year after year, dealing with that stuff, is weirdly impressive.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

Kids come up to me all the time and say, 'Once I was going through a really bad time, and I saw you crash and get up, and it inspired me.'

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

I am determined to go through the horror of this world.

I still feel like I gotta prove something. There are a lot of people hoping I fail. But I like that. I need to be hated.

Even my closest friend said I was finished, but I think I may be a little different from the others.

I wanted people to know that I've been through the rain. I've been broken into pieces; I had a daughter at such a young age. There were times people would say, 'That's it for her.' But that didn't happen.

I have learned not to allow rejection to move me.

The human spirit and what it can go through... that's pretty inspiring.

I had a rough childhood coming up, and I just took all that negative energy and made it very positive for myself to drive me. I'm a very driven person. I have passion that almost scares people, just to be successful and make it no matter what.

No difficulty can discourage, no obstacle dismay, no trouble dishearten the man who has acquired the art of being alive. Difficulties are but dares of fate, obstacles but hurdles to try his skill, troubles but bitter tonics to give him strength; and he rises higher and looms greater after each encounter with adversity.

When you go through hell, your own personal hell, and you have lost - loss of fame, loss of money, loss of career, loss of family, loss of love, loss of your own identity that I experienced in my own life - and you've been able to face the demons that have haunted you... I appreciate everything that I have.

I didn't deserve to get my title stripped after three ACL reconstructions. I didn't deserve to be out for four years. But it happened to me, and so I definitely learned over the years that you don't deserve anything. Nothing you have is yours. Everything is up for grabs in this world.

I thank those people that thought I had lost the agility to play shortstop, because they gave me more motivation.

It's never about the chemo; it's never about the cancer. It's all about what you're willing to put in to overcome whatever the obstacle is.

Every little bit of hate just gees me on to do better and prove them all wrong.

We've all been there, where it seems like all the cards are stacked against you, and you can't seem to do anything right. But you still have to say to yourself, 'You know what? That's not going to stop me. I still have to find a way.'

The more people that write me off, the stronger I get.

I am powered by the defeat in Sochi, as I am by all my defeats.

People have been calling me names and setting me back my whole life. And with every fight it's just given me more fuel to my fire and in doing so I've become a success.