A coach once told me there are four factors that determine a players' performance: his tactical awareness, his physical condition, his technical ability and his mental strength.
What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude.
A nation' s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.
Strength is one of those things you're supposed to have. You don't feel that you have it at the time you're going through it.
Yes, forget your weakness, whatever that weakness may be. It is egotism, it is selfishness after. all, for it is a dwelling on self. Forget your weakness; and remember your strength.
I get curious about new things. My real strength is going into a field that has not been investigated before, and finding new approaches to it.
We also very importantly recommend continued growth in the Army and the Marine Corps end strength.
Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces.
My greatest strength is common sense. I'm really a standard brand - like Campbell's tomato soup or Baker's chocolate.
I have many weaknesses, but I have one strength. When I do something, I do it 300 percent. I'm not a middle man.
I dance but I also work out. I run, do strength training... you name it. I've got to!
I went to a military school between the ages of six and 12 and later into the air force. You learn discipline and strength of character.
People intuitively realize that there is strength in numbers and take comfort in the company of others, especially in times of anxiety or need.
The fact that hardly anyone is ever prepared to admit to racist behaviour is perhaps a sort of strength: it speaks to the fact that racism is socially inadmissible.
The fact that people in Hollywood are open to what I teach is not because they're more desperate than anyone else, but because they're more touched by it. That's not their weakness. It's their strength!
Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?
At Casablanca we did 'Midnight Express,' 'Flashdance,' and 'The Deep.' My willingness for risk has always been my strength.
Negotiating with the Taliban must be done from a position of strength. Negotiating from a position of weakness would be a disaster.
Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.
There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.
I want to thank all my fans, teammates, coaches and supporters for the strength they've given me to overcome so much.
