Resilient Quotes

“The way I see it, you have two choices when you’re in the dirt. You can roll over and die. Or you can dig in and grow. The choice is yours.”
― Brooke Wells, Resilient: The Untold Story of CrossFit's Greatest Comeback

“Neither the past nor the future is in our control, so if that’s where your attention is, you are diluting what you’re capable of right now.”
― Brooke Wells, Resilient: The Untold Story of CrossFit's Greatest Comeback

“I compete in a sport that requires its athletes to develop three different physical abilities. The first one, which we call engine, grows the fastest. The second one, skills, is a catch-all for gymnastics movements, which take longer to master. Strength, the third one, is a lifelong project, by far the slowest and most time-consuming physical ability to build.”
― Brooke Wells, Resilient: The Untold Story of CrossFit's Greatest Comeback

“The point is, there are no definitively good or bad things that happen in life. Not everything that looks like progress necessarily is. Not everything that looks like tragedy necessarily is. Only time will tell whether something falls into one category or the other.
Time ... and your attitude.
The way I see it, you have two choices when you're in the dirt.
You can roll over and die. Or you can dig in and grow.
The choice is yours.”
― Brooke Wells, Resilient: The Untold Story of CrossFit's Greatest Comeback