Lindsay Davenport Quotes

If I let myself sink into depression, I won't be able to get out. And then I'll be awfully unhappy. I just have to turn my face to the light and walk on. And trust that things will be all right.

I can't understand people who give up and commit suicide. If I have a bad day, I figure tomorrow will be better. And even if it isn't, at least it isn't any worse.

I've gone through terrible periods of depression. But, at the core of my being, there's a strange, out-of-place optimist. Despite what I'm feeling, I'm always able to get up and do my job. Which means the world to me.

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 still have downs and get depressed, but I try not to dwell too much on being negative because it always passes and there is still so much to do.

When you get to know me, I don't despair - I just get up, clean up, and start again.

I am always hurt, but what are you going to do? I have to skate.

I got very depressed. Hollywood can be a terrible place when you're depressed. The pits. I decided I had to change my life and do different things.

You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.

The secret is not to give up hope. It's very hard not to because if you're really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side.

I've been depressed many times in my life. But under it all I'm an optimist.

I think you can be depressed and flourish, I think you can have cancer and flourish, I think you can be divorced and flourish. When we believed that happiness was only smiling and good mood, that wasn't very good for people like me, people in the lower half of positive affectivity.

Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.

I still wake up every day, so I'm winning.

You get into a tough spot where you're not feeling good and you can't do what you're typically accustomed to doing, you just keep grinding.

You need to put your head down and... try not to lose hope.

No matter what you're going through, there's a light at the end of the tunnel and it may seem hard to get to it but you can do it and just keep working towards it and you'll find the positive side of things.

So I'm still doing my best to stay in shape and hope that opportunity will come back to me.

I try to stay positive by focusing on how much I'll appreciate my health if I get better.

We all go through sad times, but I was brought up to be positive.

We sit in the mud... and reach for the stars.

You have to find some way to not become a cynical or negative person, a person who keeps walking around and opening your eyes in the outside world but inside you close down, a person who stops expecting tomorrow to be better than today.

You know, it sounds corny, but I believe in myself. And I work hard.

Persevere and preserve yourselves for better circumstances.

Where I am today... I still have my ups and downs, but I take it one day at a time and I just hope that I can be the best that I can possibly be, not only for myself, but also young people that are out there today that need someone to look up to.