Anne Donovan Quotes

I think it's an amazing quality to be able to roll with the punches and not be totally ruined as a person because life's been rough for you. That's a really admirable way to go through your life.

I feel like I haven't done the best in environments that aren't conducive to me doing well, and I have to do that. Because times are going to get tough, and I'm going to have to let things slide off my back.

I think if something's wrong with me, I just kind of work through it. That's my mentality.

My father believed strongly, and taught me, that you can't let yourself get too high on a success or too low on a failure. In this volatile business, that's useful to know.

I think the secret to happiness is having a Teflon soul. Whatever comes your way, you either let it slide or you cook with it.

Life is a bunch of ups and downs. It's how you handle it.

There's times where I go off the rails like anybody else. For the most part, I try to keep it, 'Hey, this is what we're dealt and this is the situation, so let's make the best of it.' Keep a positive attitude.

I work differently. I enjoy creating a space around me and not getting too high or too low. But I am continuously looking to get better - not just as a tennis player but also as a person dealing with new experiences.

I've got a lot better at dropping emotions if something goes wrong, or right.

I've been through a lot. You can't get too high, you can't get too low.

I've gone through so many of these stages of defeat and loss and victory, the ups and downs, that I know how to handle it.

I adapt to things quickly, including good things, which I wish I could shut off sometimes.

That was just my own personal program: I didn't want to get too high over the good moments because I didn't want to be saddened and depressed when things didn't go as I had planned.

I have been stubborn and getting into trouble since I was 2, but I learned how to redirect that into good causes.

Work hard. Laugh when you feel like crying. Keep an open mind, open eyes and an open spirit.

I liked his ability to deal with a lot of the negativity that surrounded him. Even though he was in a world that he didn't want to be in, he still saw the bigger picture.

How you recover from what life's throwing at you is what matters.

When you realize that life isn't fair, you don't act out, you don't get overly wasted, you don't get self-indulgent. You just move forward.

Life is supposed to be a series of peaks and valleys. The secret is to keep the valleys from becoming Grand Canyons.

Long ago, I made up my mind that when things were said involving only me, I would pay no attention to them, except when valid criticism was carried by which I could profit.

I learned that having great sensitivity is important. But being strong is just as important.

With the right outlook, you can learn to entertain yourself and entertain each other so you can enjoy doing what you're doing. There's obviously gonna be highs and lows, and the trick to it is to be able to maintain composure and stay high even when you're in the lows. That way, when you hit the highs, it'll be twice as killer.

Don't let the good days get to your head, and don't let the bad days get to your heart.

I'm a big believer in not getting too high when you are winning and not getting too low when things aren't going well.

The cognitive skills that underpin resilience, then, seem like they can indeed be learned over time, creating resilience where there was none.