Sai Baba Quotes

Work hard. Laugh when you feel like crying. Keep an open mind, open eyes and an open spirit.

I think what endurance sports teach you is to stay dedicated, stay focused, and also to understand you're going to have ups and downs, but you need to keep running right through them.

I think we build resilience to prepare for whatever adversity we'll face. And we all face some adversity - we're all living some form of Option B.

The ability to find solutions to life's challenges is what makes us grow as a person.

Regardless of what challenge you are facing right now, know that it has not come to stay. It has come to pass. During these times, do what you can with what you have, and ask for help if needed. Most importantly, never surrender. Put things in perspective. Take care of yourself. Find ways to replenish your energy, strengthen your faith and fortify yourself from the inside out.

Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it.

Basketball really is a metaphor for life - the intangible skills I have learned on the court, have helped shape the person I am today.

A friend once asked me what qualities were needed for SAS. I would say to be self-motivated and resilient; to be calm, yet have the ability to smile when it is grim; to be unflappable, be able to react fast and to have an ‘improvise, adapt and overcome’ mentality.

For me, survival is the ability to cope with difficulties, with circumstances, and to overcome them.

Facing difficulties is inevitable. Learning from them is optional.

If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son.

The test of truth in life is not whether we can remember what we learned in school, but whether we are prepared for change.

You have to be resilient.

A good school teaches you resilience - that ability to bounce back.

You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.

When I am wrong, I will learn the lesson and move on to face other challenges. For me, that's what creating your own life is. Doing your best work while being your best self.

Football is one of those games that definitely relates to life in a lot of ways. Everything can be going good, and just like that, you have a turnover. Things are going south, you're going the opposite direction. How are you going to recover from it? That's the beauty in this game.

Develop resilience and be brave. There are days when it is very discouraging. You have to develop personal resilience to environmental things that come along. If you let every single environmental challenge knock you off your game, it's going to be very, very hard.

Things you don't expect come up, and you have to adapt. You can't let it throw you off. You have to cope. Those are all really valuable skills, in life and racing.

Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance.

Things aren't always easy, but you just have to keep going and don't let the small stuff bog you down.

I think gymnastics trained me as a person, too. Without the lessons I learned in gymnastics, I would be crushed.

I try to make the good days great and take something positive from the days I'm not feeling good - work on technique or something like that.

It takes intellectual stamina to stay open, as a leader and a mind, to absorb information and adversity.

Being a mother is the ultimate training ground for anything.