The pain barrier was not a barrier for her; she could go beyond it.
You know you can do more, but everyone expects you to quit.
Never in my wildest dreams would I have thought I would accomplish what I have in the sport
You are trying not only to reach your potential but to move beyond it. If you are not in the best shape you can be, these things simply become more difficult to achieve.
Man is something that is to be surpassed.
If your Nerve, deny you - Go above your Nerve
Infinite toil would not enable you to sweep away a mist; but by ascending a little, you may often look over it altogether. So it is with our moral improvement: we wrestle fiercely with a vicious habit, which could have no hold upon us if we ascended into a higher moral atmosphere.
Sometimes our best is simply not enough.... We have to do what is required.
Let us all be men and women in full. Let us expect from ourselves more than we think we can give, more than we think we can do and more than we think we already know.
Challenges are solved by rising to a level higher than the challenge.
It's human nature to be timid in the face of obstacles, but I have learned to believe that challenges are opportunities for genius to shine. In order to feel alive, we have to accomplish things that we once believed we could not.
I was never supposed to play in college, let alone the NBA, so I always feel like I have something to prove. No one ever expected me to be here, so that feeling of being an underdog is ingrained in me. It's a natural part of my consciousness.
God didn't create any of us to be average. He didn't make us to barely get by. We were created to excel.
You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
Man is something to be surpassed.
Problems, obstacles, and challenges can either become the markers of our limits and limitations, or they can become the springboard into a whole new world.
It’s believing in those dreams and facing our fears head on that allows us to live our lives beyond our limits.
At last concluded that no creature was more miserable than man, for that all other creatures are content with those bounds that nature set them, only man endeavors to exceed them.
What you're going to be asked to do is bigger than what you think you can do. It's always bigger than what you think you can handle, but you're never going to be given something you can't handle.
