Comeback Story Quotes

Look at what George Foreman did to Michael Moorer. No matter his age, he hits so hard that he's always in a fight.

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

I'm like my zombies. I won't stay dead!

You're going to have to swallow Vitor Belfort. I'm going to reinvent myself and come back different every time.

Everybody knows I'm the biggest Dennis Pitta fan in the world.

When I plummeted into infamy in the Calgary Olympics, I never thought that a film would be made about my life.

Teams in the past have been slow starters yet gone on to win the World Cup.

I think I just went into a system that was willing to utilize me and gave me opportunities and I felt fortunate to be able to go to Oakland and put the silver and black on. I wanted to prove to everybody that I could still play.

My first show was in front of 30,000 people with will.i.am, and I wasn't even that nervous.

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

Prior to 'Pirates of the Caribbean' - the first one in 2003 - I had been essentially known within the confines of Hollywood as box office poison, you know what I'm saying? You know, I basically had built a career on 20 years of failures.

Getting hurt and watching Tom Brady take over and beginning what's been just a spectacular run of his, and to come back and play in the AFC Championship Game against the Steelers in Pittsburgh, and help us win that game, is a memory that stands out very clearly.

A lot of people, when they see my career, they hear or remember, 'Sat on the bench four years in college, got cut by the Packers, worked in a grocery store, and then won the Super Bowl.' That's kind of the timeline the people see when they hear 'Kurt Warner.'

Without a lot of college film, a lot of people had written me off already. When the Patriots called, I was pretty happy.

You think about when I went to Miami. I played as a freshman, I go in and compete to be a starter, I tear my ACL. Come back, I start, I get off to a good couple of games and I get hurt again. You hear everybody saying, 'Oh, he's done.' I get drafted in the third round. People still said I got drafted too high, saying I'll only play three years.

The best thing about football, and sport in general, is that if you suffer a big disappointment, then there is no better feeling than coming back the following year and doing well.

Everyone loves a comeback story, and everyone loves the underdog as well. I kind of feel like I've been the underdog. Hopefully that inspires people to not give up on themselves and their lives and not give up on their dreams.

New York is a passionate city. They want a winner. They deserve a winner. I think we did an outstanding job of bringing it back.

At halftime [of Game 7], one of our oldest guys on the team, James Jones, came to me, and he's like, "Man, it's time for you to do something. You've been sleeping the whole playoffs, the whole final series." First couple of shots I got coming out, I was like, "You know what, I'm gonna shoot it." Fortunately they fell, and we started making our way back.

Getting released in 2014 was the best thing that happened to me because I got to regain my focus, regain my pride, and come back as the best-conditioned athlete there is in WWE, which ultimately led me to become the single greatest WWE champion.

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

Great fighters get beat, and great fighters come back.

When the Heat were put together, there was talk of going undefeated. They didn't get off to a great start, but they found a way to win back-to-back championships.

People were saying John Elway should retire until he won the Super Bowl.

For me, I believe George Foreman was a bad example because when he became world heavyweight champion again at 42, that made a lot of fighters think they could also carry on.