Zach LaVine Quotes

The rules of survival never change, whether you're in a desert or in an arena.

While I still have more good days than bad days, I'm going to keep playing.

I try to make the good days great and take something positive from the days I'm not feeling good - work on technique or something like that.

I have so much chaos in my life, it's become normal. You become used to it. You have to just relax, calm down, take a deep breath and try to see how you can make things work rather than complain about how they're wrong.

When I get down, I don't waller around for long.

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

Everyone goes through bad days, but that does not mean you should stop enjoying the good days.

I choose to live in the present because when you suffer from chronic illness, you don't have a choice. It's day by day, one foot in front of the other. When there is a good day, you soak up that moment. Those 'good selfie' moments are captured because they're a gift.

So live. Live. Fight like hell. And when you get too tired to fight, lay down and rest and let somebody else fight for you.

The strongest oak of the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. It’s the one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle for its existence against the winds and rains and the scorching sun.

I'm surviving. I'm a survivor.

For us, it's a matter of just staying alive and getting the best deal we can now. Eventually, this will all straighten out. It may be two generations away or 10 generations away, but time is irrelevant in that sense. As long as we, as a people, stay alive, we will survive.

You have to always continue to strive no matter how hard things get, no matter how troubled you feel. No matter how tough things get, no matter how many times you lose, you keep trying to win.

I was in a very deep, dark slump, and I needed to find a way to get myself out of it. I had to force myself back out into life, back out into experiencing things.

Cardiac depression is very powerful; it's very black; it's very dark. What I've learned to do is get out of my head and get into my heart. And it just sounds like an easy thing - it was difficult at first - to truly recognize moment to moment how fortunate I am.

I don't worry about the things I can't change.

I've had some dark nights of the soul, of course, but giving in to depression would be a sellout, a defeat.

America is a country of fighters. People who fought their way in and then continued fighting.

The first few years in L.A. were really tough and scary, but I had to figure things out for myself.

I don't torture myself.

In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.

Boxing has been the most difficult thing I've ever done. The biggest challenge in my life. I was a boxer. That was hard. Everything else is pretty easy.

When times get tough, at some point, people instinctively know they need to lighten up in order to get through it.

If you want to see the sunshine, you have to weather the storm.

Life can be tough sometimes. But I think it just starts with admitting, 'Okay, the world's not perfect, how do we live our lives within that and not be miserable?'