Victoria Arlen Quotes

My whole life, people have doubted me. My mom did. People told me in high school I'm too short and not fast enough to play basketball. They didn't know my story. Because if they did, they'd know that anything is possible.

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

We didn't crumble after 9/11. We didn't falter after the Boston Marathon. But we're America. Americans will never, ever stand down. We endure. We overcome. We own the finish line.

If I would have listened to other people back in 2000 telling me I should have stopped playing basketball because of a kidney disease, I wouldn't have won a world championship.

As you know, I'm all about victory for the underdog.

My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.

Whatever be the challenges, whatever be the obstacles before us, I say to you as I say to everybody else that we will overcome.

I think you have to take everything that looks like a blow and turn it into a triumph. This is where my energy comes from: I just won't be licked.

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've been an underdog all my life.

Who would have thought it would be possible to run across Canada on one leg, eh? I wanted to try the impossible and show that it could be done.

People in Wynne told me I'd never win a game at Memphis and I'd never play in a bowl game. But I knew we'd turn it around.

Everyone has a Milkha Singh in them.

My whole career's been an underdog's.

When I had an accident in 2006, no one believed that I will return to the ground, but I did.

By hook or by crook this peril too shall be something that we remember

But still, like air, I'll rise

Even against the greatest of odds, there is something in the human spirit - a magic blend of skill, faith, and valor - that can lift men from certain defeat to incredible victory.

The human will is an amazing thing. Time after time, it has triumphed against unbelievable odds.

Just like moons and suns, With certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high, Still I'll rise.

But success shall crown my endeavours. Wherefore not? Thus far I have gone, tracking a secure way over the pathless seas: the very stars themselves being witnesses and testimonies of my triumph. Why not still proceed over the untamed yet obedient element? What can stop the determined heart and resolved will of man?

The greater the struggle the more glorious the triumph

Perseverance is a silent power that grows irresistibly greater with time.

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