Aja Brown Quotes

If you can't take it, you won't make it.

I've had to be tough my whole life.

I've taken many knocks over the years but it has only made me stronger and more determined to succeed.

Everybody has to deal with tough times. A gold medal doesn't make you immune to that. A skater is used to falling down and getting up again.

I just think that there are those people that their resolve is strengthened by what it is that's keeping them down, and there are some people that will buckle under it. You never know which one is which until you get into the eighth or ninth round of the fight.

I like underdogs, I like anti-heroes - people that have a hard time overcoming things in life.

I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.

When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.

I've been knocked down a lot of times.

From a person standpoint, the old expression of what doesn't kill you makes you stronger is somewhat true.

When the going gets tough, let the tough get going.

People striving, being knocked down and coming back... this is what builds character in a man.

It's been kind of tough, but tough people last.

You have to learn how to fight through when it sucks and it's really hard.

It's the essence of sport to be able to swallow tough things up.

When stuff happens to you, it just makes you tougher, man.

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.

It's true - ever since I was born, I've been through some tough situations. But that's what has given me the strength and the drive to succeed.

The greatness comes not when things go always good for you. But the greatness comes when you're really tested, when you take some knocks, some disappointments, when sadness comes. Because only if you've been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Don't give up. You're going to get kicked in the teeth. A lot. Learn to take a hit, then pick yourself up off the floor. Resilience is the true key to success.

That which does not destroy, strengthens.

What makes you really come together under pressure is determination and focus and toughness.

What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.

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.