Landon Donovan Quotes

Sometimes when we get our ass kicked and we're down, sometimes we stay down, and sometimes we get depressed and sometimes we don't know how to handle it, and sometimes we don't know what's going on, and sometimes we feel like it's not worth going on.

The punches that don't knock you out are the ones you feel the most.

After a big defeat, any player feels affected - it is about how long he needs to recover.

You can't avoid pain, but you can choose to overcome it.

How we handle our tough times stays with us for a long time.

The one thing all that battle taught me, is that no one walks away without scars. No one. (Bad Moon Rising)

People live through such pain only once. Pain comes again—but it finds a tougher surface.

You're never given more pain than you can handle. You never, ever get more than you can take.

Consider anything, only don’t cry!

I believe that whatever doesn't kill you, simply makes you... stranger.

Of course it hurts", she grumbled, tipping my head further back. "Life sucks. Get over it

Trauma is survivable, but often not much more. It kills you while allowing you to still live.

To be emotionally resilient and to overcome your circumstances, not through fighting, but through being courageous and having endurance was something I thought was of primary importance.

Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of trauma, I will fear no concussion.

Losing a basketball game hurts but when you see what you've been through, you look on it and say well if this is the worst thing that can happen to me, then I'm okay.

The heart must be beaten or bruised, and then the sweet scent will come out.

There is no such thing in life as no pain and no disappointment.

Survivors can't always choose their methods.

I think loss can fuel how you lead your whole life.

Life's fairly excruciating. Painful things happen. Every now and then, you drag yourself out of the stream and stand on the bank gasping for air. I think that's how I work.

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 attracted to subjects who overcome tremendous suffering and learn to cope emotionally with it.

No day-to-day mishaps or indignities can really compromise your sense of self after you've survived a deep tragedy.

Some people take certain things and they try to forget what that pain felt like. I don't. I take that same pain and I chase it every time I walk in a weight room.

When someone is punched in the face, you find out what they are made of.