John Leguizamo Quotes

When my doctors said I would never walk, I didn't believe them. I knew I wasn't meant to spend my life in a chair.

I feel like I'm a fighter. I've fought my whole life to get to where I'm at. I like fight movies. When someone gets knocked down, I like to root for him to succeed.

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.

When people tell you you're on the brink of death, you've got to dig pretty deep to get it together.

A champion is someone who gets up when he can't.

My songs have always had hope and perseverance in them - I never write songs that have no escape hatch, no positivity.

Hope is not a form of guarantee; it's a form of energy, and very frequently that energy is strongest in circumstances that are very dark.

Antwone's story was a story of hope and that's what appealed to me. I needed hope myself at that time. I think all actors give up at some time and think they're never going to make it.

I get Tweets every day from people telling me that 'Hey, I'm going to overcome my injury or my illness. Cancer. Different diseases. I can beat it because Adrian Peterson showed me the determination and the willpower to be able to prosper and get through adversity whenever it comes.'

Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

I believe very deeply in the human spirit, and I have a sense of awe about it. I look around and ask, 'What makes the difference? What is it?' I've known people the world has thrown everything at - to discourage them, to kill them, to break their spirit. And yet something about them retains a dignity. They face life and they don't ask quarters.

With this disease it is so easy to throw in the towel, and that is the worst thing we can do.

Well, I believe that the depth of your struggle can determine the height of your success. I was inspired to come out of everything I've been through and end up in a place where I never thought that I would be.

One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this.

The only lost cause is one we give up on before we enter the struggle.

John, you have broken many times, physically and otherwise, and you have always grown stronger, but what you don't really understand in my humble opinion is how much courage you give the rest of us looking at you.

It's easy to give up, and that's the one thing we cannot do. That's what gives me a reason for working: to leave people with a little more courage, with a little hope that has been nourished. Even if, of course, it's going to disappear, whatever touches one isn't lost forever.

The human spirit and what it can go through... that's pretty inspiring.

He was a great man. He taught himself how to walk again, to write with his left hand. My father was a hero.

A historic defeat cannot bow our heads forever.

It's never about the chemo; it's never about the cancer. It's all about what you're willing to put in to overcome whatever the obstacle is.

I truly believe that it's all of the hard times that make you step up to the next level, and that's what makes you a champion.

We can feel sad, hurt, demoralized. But we can't give up.

I see I'm changing the game and opening doors for others, from my beginning from the east end of London. It's not a sob story; it made me the person I am today. It's seeing kids from any area or background you're from. There's a chance; you can make it.

I turned sadness into an anthem for not letting anything or anyone slow you down.