Josh Gondelman Quotes

I would have written 'Brown Girl Dreaming' if no one had ever wanted to buy it, if it went nowhere but inside a desk drawer that my own children pulled out one day to find a tool for survival, a symbol of how strong we are and how much we've come through.

I was raised as an upper-class WASP in New England, and there was this old tradition there that everyone would simply be guided into the right way after Ivy League college and onward and upward. And it rejected me, I rejected it, and I ended up as a kind of refugee, really.

Remember, the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability.

No, the only things which do not bother me are the elements. I can overcome them without a fight. All one has to do to get the best of the elements is to stand pat and one will win.

I want to thank my mom, Brenda Rose. My heart, the reason I play the way I play, just everything. Just knowing the days I don't feel right, going to practice, having a hard time, I think about her when she had to wake me up, go to work and make sure I was all right. Those were hard days.

God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless.

I've stood my ground in life, alone, even against overwhelming forces with the might and money to crush me.

Here in New England, the character is strong and unshakable.

My family lives in Miami, and I always envision myself, if something happens, it'd be like 'The Day After Tomorrow' where I walk across country to find my family. That would be the kind of person I would be. I feel like I wouldn't be as scared. If it happens, it happens. You face it.

Greeks have always been very confident, very strong people. That is - that is our real, I guess, benefit, is that we are independent thinkers. We will always get up on our feet. We - we sometimes act the best when we are downtrodden.

Remember that the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability.

I want to be the most durable person on the planet.

I've survived through my love for the game.

Even in the heat, I'm able to be there and run and fight, no matter what is happening.

I have fought all my life, that is easy for me.

If you grow up with traditions in your family, it's always nice to be able to get home and have those moments.

The confidence in my ability to be a performer, a steeliness about survival... I learnt all those things from my dad.

I'm usually writing about survival. I never planned it, but it runs through all my books.

Every game is mentally and physically tough but we get through it and it makes you stronger.

The only way to get to that next peak is to be ready for that next valley. Being raised Irish, you know to always be ready for the bad times.

For me, it has been very important to grow up knowing about my mom's work and that she was always, at every moment, supporting me and teaching me to have this strength.

If you mind tells your body you can't do it, you will quit. If your body is giving up, but you think you can carry on, you will naturally keep putting one foot in front of the other.

I draw my strength from my mom, who passed away a few years ago. She taught me from the day I was just a little boy to never give up and be proud of who I am.

Once you go through something and come out of the storm, you've been tested.

I may not be the biggest guy in the world or strongest guy in the world. I don't have those gifts. But I will take more punishment, and I'm willing to withstand more abuse.