Jim Clyburn Quotes

I think I was as mentally tough as I've ever been. I felt like I handled the situation both on and off the court extremely well. I felt like I needed to.

Let pressure pass over and through you. That way you can't be harmed by it.

Dealing with depression effectively is a mark not of weakness, but of strength.

It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage.

I don't think I have thick skin, but I heal fast. It's easy to break through, but I heal fast.

Was I hurt sometimes? Yeah. But not to the point where I couldn't play. I think we all go through it. Some guys escape it. Some guys don't. There's no secret formula.

In England, especially, mentally if you're not strong it can eat you up. There's the media, all the negativity surrounding footballers. If you're not mentally strong, it can eat you.

After an injury, I think you have to be strong mentally.

The hardest thing you can do is smile when you are ill, in pain, or depressed. But this no-cost remedy is a necessary first half-step if you are to start on the road to recovery.

It is not just a person's physical constitution, their intellegence, their education, or even their social conditioning that enables them to withstand hardship. Much more significant is their inner development. And while some may be able to survive through sheer willpower, the ones who suffer the least are those who have a high degree of patience and courage in the face of adversity.

The longer I live, the less chance I'll ever recover from what life keeps doing to me.

It's kind of a little fly-on-the-wall look at these people trying to stay sane.

To be emotionally resilient and to overcome your circumstances, not through fighting, but through being courageous and having endurance was something I thought was of primary importance.

Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of trauma, I will fear no concussion.

Life inflicts the same setbacks and tragedies on the optimist as on the pessimist, but the optimist weathers them better.

The most important attribute a player must have is mental toughness.

Having a thick skin doesn't mean that you're hard or harsh. I was lucky because I was born with a thick skin. That doesn't mean that things don't bother me, but you have to keep it in perspective.

Emotional stability has not been America's gift to the world.

I think things hit me very hard, and I wish I had allowed things to roll off my back a little bit more.

By birth and upbringing, I think I'm emotionally resilient. I don't feel like I'm a depressive person.

You have to develop a very thick skin.

People have to learn sometimes not only how much the heart, but how much the head, can bear.

Human beings have enormous resilience.

I do really well under pressure.

The pressures having grown up in this business can be really rough. And it is a testament to you that you have remained focused and NOT lost your mind.