Paullina Simons Quotes

Every season will have its dips and hard moments, and the challenge then is to make sure you don't get too down in those moments and make sure you come back fighting.

I've been through hell not totally unscathed, but I came out not too bad.

You can't let every bad thing that happens to you in your life overtake you.

The stuff I've seen and lived and survived. Gun to my head, cops coming to your house. I had the confidence of telling myself that I'm going to make it. Everything I've been through, I could've had a mental breakdown, but I kept it together. If I didn't have that confidence I wouldn't have made it. That confidence has nothing to do with basketball.

Life can be so difficult at times but fighting through the pain is so worth it.

Never give up: There are certain times that you think, 'OK, you have beaten me down to my knees. And now the challenge is, I am on my knees and you keep on beating me down. And the question is, are you going to keep beating me all the way to the ground or will I find a way to struggle my way back on to my feet.'

I didn't drown. I didn't break.

I think maybe everyone falls... I think the asking is whether we get back up again.

Yes it's difficult. Yes it's horrible. Yes it's the worst thing that has ever happen in my whole life. But I just can't give up.

I’d always enjoyed life, and I knew I would again. But I was going to have to slog through a lot of bad patches to get there

Things come up in life and we don't feel like we can ever live through them, but if we're still alive afterwards, we get through it. It's that thing where what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. I think that's beautiful.

I am not a big crier. But I'd say it was after the Mendes fight. It was not because of the fight as such. It was everything leading up to it. It had been such a tough time. When I did my knee, I had some very dark times. Life is all about ups and downs and I'd say there had been a lot of downs, but I got through it, I won and after the fight, I was standing in the shower and I was crying, just letting it all go.

Don't let the bastards grind you down.

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

I've gone through many, many things. I tell you something, that if it doesn't kill you, you get stronger.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

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.

I'm a survivor - a living example of what people can go through and survive.

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

The darkest experiences in a human being's life allow that person to either go deeper and stay depressed or get the strength to stand up stronger than ever, and that's my case.

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

What doesn't kill you only makes you stronger.

They've pushed me down a big ravine, but I'll get back up to the top.

Sometimes bad things are going to happen in your life, and those things can make you stronger if you just learn how to get over them.

I was very down as a teenager, very upset because I had gotten hurt in a car accident. But my dad was a source of strength. He used to say, 'It's the character with strength that God gives the most challenges to.' I've thought about that so many times in my life when things didn't go right.