Anne Lamott Quotes

America loves a good comeback story!

There is one good thing about reaching the bottom. When you get there, there's nothing left to do but fight your way back up or die.

A lot of fighters are counted out after a loss, and it's really what you do afterward that offers an explanation to your career.

There's nothing as exciting as a comeback - seeing someone with dreams, watching them fail, and then getting a second chance.

If my life were a song the title would be 'The Comeback Kid.'

Every time I've failed, people had me out for the count, but I always come back.

Football is one of those games that definitely relates to life in a lot of ways. Everything can be going good, and just like that, you have a turnover. Things are going south, you're going the opposite direction. How are you going to recover from it? That's the beauty in this game.

To have a comeback, you have to have a setback.

I've been around a lot of greats I seen in this industry that have problems, but the comeback can be that much greater.

I was at Watford and got a knock-back when I was 16 and didn't get a YTS contract. They said I could find another club or go in and train three times a week after school. I'd been there since I was 10, so I got my head down and proved them wrong. Within a year, they had signed me up, and I haven't looked back.

Somebody gets into trouble, then gets out of it again. People love that story. They never get tired of it.

You may be in a tough time but that setback is simply a setup for a greater comeback.

Keep in mind, when you hit rock bottom, there ain't nowhere to go but up, baby.

If you watch the history of baseball, teams come back, and sometimes they could have come back, but they give in or give up.

In the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest.

Nothing is cooler and more attractive than a big comeback, and that'll be me.

We all pulled together at the right time, unfortunately, we were down 3-0 to the Yankees when we decided to do it, but we did it. And we shocked the world.

My last fight wasn't the way I wanted it to go so there is a hole there; don't count me out.

The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly.

It feels good when guys reach out to be inspired - and you have shown people an example of how you can come back and be better than you were before when adversity strikes; and when the world predicts the opposite, you show them you not only can be successful but be great.

I've been through my fair share of highs and lows. Yes, I've been written off, and it amazes me, and it amuses me, also, when I'm written off by the press cause then I tell them that's just the lull before the storm. And every time I've been down, I've been down, never out. So it just makes me work a lot harder.

I remember there was a time when people were saying I could never win again.

I've been in crisis situations, I've been down, I've been hurt, I've been behind on the scorecards, and I've had to pull that shot out to knock somebody out. I've been in all kinds of situations and still come out on top.

A setback is a setup for a comeback.

People in Wynne told me I'd never win a game at Memphis and I'd never play in a bowl game. But I knew we'd turn it around.