Greg Giraldo Quotes

People are all vulnerable in so many different ways. We go into survival mode a lot of times.

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.

We will not be beaten. But we may be shamed and embarrassed on a needlessly long road to victory.

Every time I've failed, people had me out for the count, but I always come back.

I've been knocked down a lot of times.

Life is designed to knock you down. It will knock you down time and time again, but it doesn't matter how many times you fall - it matters how many times you get back up.

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

Every time I get an injury or suffer from a personal setback, that's exactly what I do: I persevere.

I'm inspired by failure. The process of defeat – picking yourself back up again is the hardest thing in the world.

Life has a way of breaking even the strongest among us.

I have a different kind of experience than other girls had. I've had to face a lot of different styles and adjust to them. I had to face a lot of bad situations and come back. I've had to fight with my eyes swollen shut and my nose broken and bloody.

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

I've certainly had periods when I felt like life was winning and I was losing, so I think everybody can relate to that quandary - the temptation to give in, to give up, and then what It takes to keep going.

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

You can get beat any day.

It is such a cut throat industry where you get knocked down so much and get rejected so much. If you do not back yourself up, no one else is going to so you really need to learn to get up, shake the sand off your chest and keep going.

When real people fall down in life, they get right back up and keep walking.

I've always believed in survival.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

These years of the Ecole Normale were an ordeal. Nothing was handed to me on the first try.

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've lived through a lifetime of crises and survived.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

No matter how bad things get you got to go on living, even if it kills you.

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.