Elin Nordegren Quotes

Life's fairly excruciating. Painful things happen. Every now and then, you drag yourself out of the stream and stand on the bank gasping for air. I think that's how I work.

I've been through hell not totally unscathed, but I came out not too bad.

I've been beaten, I've been bruised, I was left for dead as well.

I know that I'm very lucky to be alive. For 35 or 40 years I've spilt my blood and broke my bones and spent years in hospitals.

I've faced a lot of struggle and been a victim of backstabbing.

When you've fallen on the highway / and you're lying in the rain, / and they ask you how you're doing / of course you'll say you can't complain.

Yes it's difficult. Yes it's horrible. Yes it's the worst thing that has ever happen in my whole life. But I just can't give up.

Sometimes when we get our ass kicked and we're down, sometimes we stay down, and sometimes we get depressed and sometimes we don't know how to handle it, and sometimes we don't know what's going on, and sometimes we feel like it's not worth going on.

Things come up in life and we don't feel like we can ever live through them, but if we're still alive afterwards, we get through it. It's that thing where what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. I think that's beautiful.

I know that sometimes the things we carry become too much for us. We are burned down, but somehow we have to pick ourselves up and keep going

I have a different kind of experience than other girls had. I've had to face a lot of different styles and adjust to them. I had to face a lot of bad situations and come back. I've had to fight with my eyes swollen shut and my nose broken and bloody.

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.

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

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

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

It takes a lot of energy and creativity to make such screwed up lives carry on. And the kind of will people have to survive, year after year, dealing with that stuff, is weirdly impressive.

When you're scared, when you're hanging on, when life is hurting you, then you're going to see what you're really made of.

I've lived through a lifetime of crises and survived.

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.

Even as a child, I found a way to survive.

Because nobody goes through life without a scar.

I can't believe I survived, not only my life, but I am still playing football 'cause half of those eight or nine years I don't even remember.

I forged myself out of a vacuum. I crawl along the highway on hacked off stumps year after year. Some wonder how and why. I never do.

I had to fight; I had to fall, and I had to get hurt to be where I am.