It’s all about mentally staying in the moment and not losing concentration and trying to back up every day.
There’s no doubt that the squad needs strengthening if we are to get back up among the top three because they are operating on another level to us at the moment.
It’s OK if you fail a few times. Just keep getting back up until you nail it.
That’s the key thing I learned from making ‘The East’: It doesn’t matter what happens in your life, good or bad. What matters is that there’s a group around you to catch you when you fall and push you back up a little bit.
If you watch closely a highlight of my fights, you will see armbars and everything. But if you really watch, what you’ll see most of all is me getting back up. The power of getting back up. And to try again. It’s all about overcoming.
When we go, as a first responder, when we go into a community that’s been hit with a hurricane, or some other natural disaster, the first thing we do is try to make sure the electric grid is back up and running in order to provide the drinking water for those communities.
It’s not hard to get into a teen’s head, because it’s all emotions. Their feelings are amplified; you have no luxury of hindsight. If you haven’t had your heart broken before, you don’t know that you’ll be able to get back up again.
You don’t know how to fix the holes in our ozone layer. You don’t know how to bring salmon back up a dead stream. You don’t know how to bring back an animal now extinct. And you can’t bring back forests that once grew where there is now desert. If you don’t know how to fix it, please stop breaking it!
When we were younger, we sang at the dinner table. We started doing two part harmony, then three part, and then we added back up tapes and instruments.
People have to realize that just because you’re a Christian, it doesn’t mean that you’re perfect, because every once in a while everyone stumbles. Living by faith is about when you do mess up, getting back up, brushing yourself off, and keep trying to improve where you mess up or where you have temptation.
People always go to the ground with me trying to just hold me. They stall and wait for the referee to stand them back up so they can start it all over.
I envision Hollywood as a race, and some people simply drop off before their turn comes around. It’s all about stamina – your ability to get back up and keep going even though everything is pointing at the odds not being in your favor.
I’ve had to work so hard in my career to get to this point, from leaving City and going to the Championship to work my way back up. I believed I could do it, and I’m grateful to Burnley and Tottenham for letting me do it in the Premier League.
I know that being seen as a role model means taking responsibility for all my actions. I am human, and of course, sometimes I make mistakes. But I promise that when I fall, I get back up.
It’s the fight game, and everyone loses. You win some, you lose some. You just try to get back up on the horse.
If you fall off a horse, you get back up. I am not a quitter.
When real people fall down in life, they get right back up and keep walking.
A lot of times you can lose the MP3s – it’s a lot of labor to be finding it again, putting things back up. You gotta back up, back up, back up.
My aunt in Texas, when she did the hazing things, they had girls swallow oysters. They’d wrap an oyster in dental floss, swallow them, and then pull them back up.
People come in and out of our lives, and the true test of friendship is whether you can pick back up right where you left off the last time you saw each other.
I always feel trepidation at the beginning of every project. I worry about so many things. Time to get it right, the skill to do it justice, the will to finish. I also worry about more mundane things, like what if my computer crashes and I’ve forgotten to back up the manuscript?
If you want to become a fossil, you need to die somewhere where your bones will be rapidly buried. You then hope that the Earth moves in such a way as to bring the bones back up to the surface.
When we have fallen and need to get back up again, we are able to do it in His strength walking in His Spirit. Cling to the Spirit of Christ Jesus – He will never fail.
When I broke my leg on the dirt bike, fear got the best of me that day. I hesitated. I didn’t hit it as fast as I could have, and I came up short. It was the first time in my life I couldn’t get back up.
True hopefulness and optimism is what leads one to dare. It is also what lifts one back up to dare again after a failed attempt.
Of course every player has to accept criticism and it has happened to me. But you have got to get back up.
A funny thing happens in real estate. When it comes back, it comes back up like gangbusters.
The only way to know how much is enough, is to do too much, and then back up.
I learned to run backwards from Muhammad Ali. He told me about running backwards because you try to imitate everything you do in the ring, so sometimes you back up. So you have to train your legs to go backwards.
I don’t believe in diets. They don’t necessarily work. What they do is scrub your weight down, but as soon as you finish, you naturally go back up. I keep everything in my diet – gluten and sugar – I just cut it down a little bit and train more. It’s not rocket science.
Good or bad day, or good play or bad play, or whatever it is. You have a chance to get back up and begin again, It’s something that’s really stuck with me.
I picked Dad’s guitar up when I was 8. It hurt to play, so I put it down and picked it back up when I was 15 and dug in. The guitar helped me come out of my shell and kind of gave me an identity at school.
Rebuilding a network is a slow, brick-by-brick process. It’s not just creating a hit show – it’s building shows to back up that hit show; it’s creating an identity of success so that people want their shows on your network.
If one dream dies, dream another dream. If you get knocked down, get back up and go again.
But – but the greatest way to witness is by walking that straight and narrow and also realizing that you’re going to mess up. That’s what grace is for. We’re going to fall, but we’ve got to get back up. And you’ve got to improve. And that’s what I’m all about.
Every entrepreneur knows how agonizingly difficult it is to make the decision to give it your all, knowing that failure is inevitable; the successful ones know that the only way to get back up is through learning from that failure.
I’m able to go to 125, challenge and win that title there, and then go back up to 135 pounds and compete with the best of them there.
If anything, I want to bring television back up to where it will entertain and engage a gamer.
I’m most proud of the blessings that God has bestowed upon me, in my life. He’s given me the vision to truly see that you can fall down, but you can still get back up. Hopefully I’ll learn from my mistakes and have the opportunity to strengthen and improve the next thing I do.
Some of these guys wear beards to make them look intimidating, but they don’t look so tough when they have to deliver the ball. Their abilities and their attitudes don’t back up their beards.
At one point, I didn’t get out of bed for, I think, three months, and I went down to the bottom of the hill one day and I had to call somebody to get me to come back up – come pick me up because I couldn’t physically walk up the hill.
I’m just going to be myself. And when you’re bein’ yourself, you don’t have to back up lies or the stories you told. You don’t got to sugarcoat nothin’.
When I’m sad, I let myself be sad, but at the same time, I’ve been finding ways to pick myself back up.
You do what you can for as long as you can, and when you finally can’t, you do the next best thing. You back up but you don’t give up.
It’s really sad sometimes that you have to go to that extreme bottom to find your way back up, but it’s true.
I think anytime you have any sort of injury, you know I’ve come back from a pulled hamstring in college one time, foot injuries. The movement that causes the initial jolt of pain you always kind of are tentative when you have to make that movement, especially as you kind of build back up.
Everything that’s going on within the peloton – there’s about ten different races going on. There is also a survival element to it – I love the fact that it’s so epic. You crash on a bike, the first thing you do is try and get back up on it. No whinging!
Don’t use all-or-nothing thinking. Take each day as its own day, and don’t worry about it if you mess up one day. The most important thing you can do is just get back up on the horse.
As I’ve gotten older and I’ve watched people in productions, I go to the theater when I go back to London and see friends in Broadway, I think maybe there might come a time here to get back up there and prove oneself. It’s just an itch; it’s a nagging itch to go back there.
Life is easy when you’re hot. But what happens when the ball bounces the other way? You just keep getting back up and climbing up.
After weigh-ins you’re doing wheat pasta or you’re trying to carb back up. This was actually really throwing me off, causing an inflammatory response in my digestive system, in my brain, in my body. Throwing off my mind.
Soon after the 1997 election, I argued that there was no inverse law of political gravity which said that everything which went down had to come back up.
