Things for me really started to click right after my third year in the league. I sort of figured out that there were a few things that I needed to do if I wanted to get better - I needed to gain some more weight and add some strength.
— Scottie Pippen
When you love someone deeply, you give strength, and when you are loved deeply, you gain courage.
— Scott Cook
For me, my greatest weakness is also my greatest strength: I'm a complete overthinker about everything.
— Sasha Velour
I don't get particularly friendly with new people at first go. Call that a strength or a failing, whatever.
— Sanjay Dutt
There is a lot of struggle in being an actor; you need so much emotional strength, no matter what level of stardom you have, that it's nice to have something steady.
— Sanaa Lathan
If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
— Samuel Johnson
By God's grace and strength of my work, I've managed to build a respectable image that I use to serve both my continent and my country.
— Samuel Eto'o
Core strength and stability is very important to me. Tennis is all about rotation of the body and my ability to create power. I incorporate a lot of abdominal, back and glute exercises into my gym sessions.
— Samantha Stosur
When we read stories of heroes, we identify with them. We take the journey with them. We see how the obstacles almost overcome them. We see how they grow as human beings or gain qualities or show great qualities of strength and courage and with them, we grow in some small way.
— Sam Raimi
The soldier who gropes for glory must submit himself to discipline. Subordination gives strength and security to an army. He that will not submit to it when corrected and improved by the experience of ages does not deserve the proud appellation of a soldier.
— Sam Houston
What is important is to believe in something so strongly that you're never discouraged.
— Salma Hayek
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.
— Saint Francis de Sales
God is not accustomed to refusing a good gift to those who ask for one. Since he is good, and especially to those who are faithful to him, let us hold fast to him with all our soul, our heart, our strength, and so enjoy his light and see his glory and possess the grace of supernatural joy.
— Saint Ambrose
The opponents and I are really one. My strength and skills only half of the equation. The other half is theirs. An opponent is someone whose strength joined to yours creates a certain result.
— Sadaharu Oh
For me, the perfect romantic suspense hero has got to be tough on the outside but tender at his core. A take-charge kind of guy who has his own inner strength and a strong sense of right and wrong - which might not dovetail with the conventional wisdom. I mean, he might bend the law if he thinks the ends justify the means.
— Ruth Glick
It takes a strong effort on the part of each American Indian not to become Europeanized. The strength for this effort can only come from the traditional ways, the traditional values that our elders retain.
— Russell Means
There is an invisible strength within us; when it recognizes two opposing objects of desire, it grows stronger.
— Rumi
Without strength and courage it's really hard to perform at the highest levels of international figure skating, because you're alone on the ice and you only have seven minutes over two nights to prove yourself.
— Scott Hamilton
It's as if my left heel is my bass drum and my right heel is the floor tom-tom. I can get snare out of my right toe by not putting it down on the floor hard, and, if I want cymbals, I land flat on both feet, full strength on the floor.
— Savion Glover
Don't be intimidated by what you don't know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else.
— Sara Blakely
My parents, especially my mother, has been my pillar of strength.
— Sangram Singh
Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
Mountaineering is one of the most difficult sports - we are away from routine life for days, living in tents, and it requires high degree of physical and mental strength.
— Samina Baig
Tennis takes care of everything. It requires agility and quickness to get to the ball, core strength to get power into your shorts and stamina to last for an entire match. In addition to toning your arms and shoulders, it's a total body workout for your legs and abs, and works your heart and core unlike any other sport.
The hardest for me is rings because it is a lot more strength-oriented, while all the other events are about fluidity and flexibility. It's the one event that doesn't coincide with the fluidity, which is my strength.
— Sam Mikulak
I like squats because they help build that foundation of strength. I do tons of single-leg moves for strength and balance because they let you test your strength in one leg at a time. But even on my leg days, I make sure to fit in some core work.
— Sam Darnold
I feel I'm a strange mixture of insecurity and strength. Most of us, probably most people. I'm transferring that same concept to the people I photograph.
— Sally Mann
Christian, learn from Christ how you ought to love Christ. Learn a love that is tender, wise, strong; love with tenderness, not passion, wisdom, not foolishness, and strength, lest you become weary and turn away from the love of the Lord.
— Saint Bernard
Being sick is a different story than having an injury. If you have a right arm injury, you can still use the rest of your body. You still have the energy to perform. But when you are sick and can't really get out of bed or walk or even breathe, you're not yourself. You don't have the cardio, strength, speed, or explosion.
— Sage Northcutt
As far as I can judge, English football is not for everybody. You need to have the lungs for it, you need to have the strength for it.
— Ryan Babel
I gambled on having the strength to live two lives, one for myself and one for the world.
— Ruth Benedict
Have you not learned that strength comes to an ordinary soul when given an extraordinary calling?
— Russell M. Nelson
The lesson of 9/11 is that America is truly exceptional. We withstood the worst attack of our history, intended by our enemies to destroy us. Instead, it drew us closer and made us more united. Our love for freedom and one another has given us a strength that surprised even ourselves.
— Rudy Giuliani
I have a quad rep in my house, so I'm doing bench presses and pull ups on that, any sort of basic strength movements I can do at home.
— Scott Foley
Having a hardware development team in-house is a major strength.
— Satoru Iwata
My mother was my pillar of strength.
— Sanjay Leela Bhansali
I'm an activist for gay marriage equality and children's rights. I'm the face of Share Our Strength.
— Sandra Lee
Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.
— Samuel Smiles
If you believe in something and have the strength not to give up, it can happen. I am the living proof it can be done.
Flexibility is crucial to my fitness. Incorporating a good warm-up and cool-down into every session decreases my chances of injury. I use both dynamic and static stretching in my training. I've starting doing a few yoga sessions which incorporates muscle strength and flexibility.
My workouts include aerobic exercise for a healthy cardiovascular system; strength training to maintain muscle tone and bone density; core strength exercise for a stable mid-section; and stretching to maintain mobility.
I definitely want to put my kids in gymnastics at an early age, whether that's what they want to or not. Gymnastics just builds such a great fundamental strength at a young age, and they get great; they learn how to move with their body. I think that can translate to any sport later in life.
If you're paralyzing your face in your 20s and 30s, you're not exercising the muscles that give it strength. My feeling is, laugh, cry, move your face.
Later in life, when my kids struggle to understand a tricky concept or master a new skill, I want them to have the strength and experience to tell themselves, 'I don't know how to do this... yet!' I want them to be confident that, even if something seems challenging today, they have what it takes to figure it out.
— Sal Khan
Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to the weak, and joy to the sorrowful. It in fact renders the yoke of truth easy and its burden light.
London's greatest strength is our diversity, and it's wonderful to see Londoners celebrating our capital's different traditions, determined to stand up to division.
— Sadiq Khan
It takes a great deal of strength to be an optimist.
— Ruth Reichl
I haven't strength of mind not to need a career.
Strength does not have to be belligerent and loud.
— Russell Brand
