Kristin Armstrong Quotes

What used to drive me was the fact that I wanted to be better than everybody at something. One of my best qualities is that I used whatever other people found to be an adverse thing to be a positive thing for myself.

My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.

I feel like after my incident, it really made me realize football is not here forever. I'm all the more anxious to come out here and let my teammates know, 'Look, hey, this is the same JPP. Missing fingers aren't going to stop me from playing some ball.'

It really doesn't matter honestly to look at the scoreboard where it's 20 runs and 2 wickets down or 200 runs, 2 wickets down, because... if you're positive inside it really doesn't matter. It just requires different planning sometimes.

The difference between "winners" and "losers" is not whether they face obstacles and setbacks - we all do, and it is inevitable that plans do not unfold exactly as imagined or that unexpected events surprise us or that a few mistakes happen. The real difference is that "winners" bounce back from a fumble or a loss by refusing to panic, analyzing the situation and looking for positive actions they can take to correct the problem, and then go on to resume winning.

I train so hard to make sure failure doesn't happen. If I do everything I can, and run as fast as I possibly can and someone still beats me, I don't think of that as failure.

They can put me in a jungle. Still, I can create.

Once you lose everything, what's the worst that's going to happen to you? You develop a self-assurance.

But I believe we must not allow feelings of defeat to take root in our hearts.

I'm functioning on a lung and a half, but I have proved that it's possible to challenge yourself.

'Give up... it's time to quit,' I don't think I've ever really accepted those kinds of words in my life or vocabulary.

I'm a fighter and not a victim. Think of yourself and make the most of life.

I don't have much positive to say about motor neuron disease, but it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I still could do. I'm happier now than before I developed the condition.

If you can accept losing, you can't win.

What I think I've been able to do well over the years is play with pain, play with problems, play in all sorts of conditions.

The flesh and bone leg is just beautiful. It's elegant. You know, when it's working, it's incredible. But if it's not working, well, you know, your life is certainly far from over.

I have survivor skills. Some of that is superficial - what I present to people outwardly - but what makes people resilient is the ability to find humour and irony in situations that would otherwise overpower you.

People ask, how do you cope, and all I can say is that you do.

Instead of letting the hard times get me down, I've learned to keep going at to look for the hidden good.

It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.

People could tell me I was not good at something and, even if I wasn't, I told myself I was.

If we have a good day and we win, I'll celebrate and enjoy it. If I have a bad day and I lose, I'll be disappointed and then come back the next day and think about the next team.

I do a good job of staying positive and just moving on.

If somebody would've told me that I was going to lose my legs at the age of 19, I would've thought there's absolutely no way I'd be able to handle that. But then it happened, and I realized that there's so much more to live for, that my life isn't about my legs.

I just go out there and play basketball. I'm not worried about missing. I just got to be thinking about the next shot.