Eddie Guerrero Quotes

The people I am most interested in are the ones on the edge of losing everything and falling into the last bit of despair. I'm trying to write about how people exist on that edge and how they can come back.

I've never stabbed, hurt, killed, stolen, anything, but I went to jail for a year. What is that? My pastor said to me the fact that I'm not living under a bridge as a crazy woman, talking to myself, is amazing.

There is nothing as sweet as a comeback, when you are down and out, about to lose, and out of time.

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.

I'm always looking for a story of survival.

When we are flat on our backs there is no way to look but up.

They've pushed me down a big ravine, but I'll get back up to the top.

I learned that when life pulls you under, you can kick against the bottom, break the surface, and breathe again.

Keep in mind, when you hit rock bottom, there ain't nowhere to go but up, baby.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down.

A lot of what is most beautiful about the world arises from struggle.

I always have this image of a woman running across a desert carrying children, trying to find water and food, not knowing when they'll get that. And her feet are slashed up from the dry, hard earth... Even when I'm uncomfortable, sometimes in pain, or just cold... I think, 'Thank God for what I've got.'

If my life were a song the title would be 'The Comeback Kid.'

I speak to people who have been through so much more.

I have survived and possibly I should not hope for more than that.

I came from abject poverty. There was nowhere to go but up.

The most audacious thing I could possibly state in this day and age is that life is worth living. It's worth being bashed against. It's worth getting scarred by. It's worth pouring yourself over every one of its coals.

If you're actually talking to someone who's been through a disastrous number of years, that only means one thing: They survived it.

Recovery begins from the darkest moment.

I'm a survivor - a living example of what people can go through and survive.

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

All I'm trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty, unbelievable lifestyle that they gave me.

How can they beat me? I've been struck by lightning, had two back operations, and been divorced twice.

The darkest experiences in a human being's life allow that person to either go deeper and stay depressed or get the strength to stand up stronger than ever, and that's my case.