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Robin Roberts was a legendary baseball player, born on September 30, 1926, and passed away on May 6, 2010. He was known for his exceptional skills and leadership during his career in baseball.

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“I love a doctor who can respect that somebody else is on your team, and that's God.”

Prayer Team Doctors Doctor Who Praying To God

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“When my mother makes out her income tax return every year, under occupation she writes, eroding my daughter's self-esteem.”

Writing Years Self Mother Self Esteem Return Taxes Daughter Income Esteem My Daughter Occupation Scorn Income Tax Make Out Tax Returns

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“I am stronger than I thought I was. My favorite phrase has been 'This too shall pass.' I now understand it really well.”

Wells Has Beens Stronger My Favorite Cancer Phrases Breast Cancer This Too Shall Pass

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“Being optimistic is like a muscle that gets stronger with use. Makes it easier when the tough times arrive. You have to change the way you think in order to change the way you feel.”

Thinking Way Feels Use Order Easier Tough Stronger Optimistic Muscles Tough Times Being Optimistic

Book:Everybody's Got Something

Source: Everybody's Got Something

“Life is not so much what you accomplish as what you overcome.”

Life Is Overcoming Accomplish

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“Venture outside your comfort zone. To stop growing is to stop living.”

Growing Comfort Zone Venture Comfort Zone

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“I feel it’s okay to get angry with God. He can take it. Just don’t stay angry. It takes courage to believe that the best is yet to come. I hold steadfast to that belief, especially when I come face-to-face with adversity.”

Feels Believe Faces Belief Okay Adversity Angry Face To Face Steadfast Best Is Yet To Come

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“I’m grateful I had the strength to fight. It takes courage to believe the best is yet to come, especially when you are flat on your back and don’t know if you’re going to see tomorrow. I’m no Pollyanna, but I believe optimism is a choice — a muscle that gets stronger with use. Right foot, left foot…just keep moving.”

Ifs Knows Believe Use Moving Choices Fighting Left I Believe Feet Tomorrow Optimism Stronger Grateful Muscles Flats Keep Moving Just Keep Moving Best Is Yet To Come Pollyanna

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“Life provides losses and heartbreak for all of us-but the greatest tragedy is to have the experience and miss the meaning.”

Loss Missing Tragedy

Book:Everybody's Got Something

Source: Everybody's Got Something

“Find the meaning behind whatever it is you're going through because everybody's got something.”

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“The tragedy is not so much the experience that you're having. The tragedy is that we don't take the time to understand the meaning and purpose behind what we're going through.”

Purpose Behinds Tragedy

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“Generally in the Little League you're up against a good pitcher who throws like hell. What does the coach say? Get a walk. Isn't that beautiful way to learn to hit? For four years you stand up there looking for a walk.”

Way Years Littles Doe Beautiful Walks Hell Four Coaches League Four Years Pitcher Little League

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“Everything's the same; I'm living with cancer and it's not going to stop me. But until you really test yourself and challenge yourself, I don't think you quite know.”

Thinking Knows Challenges Tests Cancer Challenge Yourself

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“Oh well, the truth hurts, doesn't it?”

Wells Hurt Oh Well Truth Hurts

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“The combination of landing the biggest interview of my career and having a drill in my back reminds me that God only gives us what we can handle and that it helps to have a good sense of humor when we run smack into the absurdity of life.”

Giving Helping Running Careers Handle Combination Interviews Sense Of Humor Absurdity Good Sense Landing Drills Smack Good Sense Of Humor Absurdity Of Life

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“My mama told me in college, 'I love you, and you're God's child, but natural beauty will only take you so far.'”

Children Natural Love You College I Love You Mama

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“It was part of the reason I almost didn't go public with my diagnosis - I was embarrassed. I felt, 'Oh, I've always talked about exercising. And I got cancer.' And then I realized it's a great example of showing that cancer can hit anyone at any time.”

Reason Felt Example Exercise Cancer I Realized Embarrassed Diagnosis

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“I've taken my cue from people here and from viewers, especially survivors-who said, 'When it's time to literally flip your wig, you'll know.'”

People Knows Said Taken Survivor Viewers Flip Wigs

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“Before, I would play a little hoops, a little tennis. Now it's more yoga, Pilates, stretching, some light weight work, push-ups, sit-ups, resistance things. When I used to live on the eleventh floor, I would take the steps. I don't do that so much now. I'm taking the elevator a bit more these days.”

Littles Play Light Used Bits Steps Yoga Weight Resistance These Days Tennis Stretching Elevators Pilates Push Ups

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“Dreams are vague and far away. Goals are tangible and achievable.”

Dream Goal Far Away Vague Tangible

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“When fear knocks, to let faith answer the door.”

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“It takes courage to believe the best is yet to come!”

Believe Optimism Optimist Best Is Yet To Come

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“Every now and again I just really have to have that steak or lamb chop. But yeah, B.C. - before cancer - I would eat red meat probably three or four times a week, easily. I am convinced that the amount of red meat I contributed to it.”

Three Four Week Amount Red Yeah Cancer Convinced Meat Lambs Steak Red Meat

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“I want people to know there are infinite possibilities in life to be grateful for. I love that people feel comfortable coming up to me and telling me stories about things they have gone through.”

People Knows Want Feels Stories Gone Possibility Comfortable Infinite Grateful Be Grateful Infinite Possibilities

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“You have to CHANGE the way you THINK in order to CHANGE the way you FEEL”

Thinking Way Feels Order

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“You can be fearful or fearless...I chose the latter”

Fearless Latter Fearful

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“Things happen along the way in our path. Instead of looking at it as a wall that's being put up in front of us, look at it as as opportunity to scale new heights and to climb that wall - to see and do things you didn't think you were capable of.”

Thinking Way Looks Happens Opportunity Path Fronts Wall Capable Scales Things Happen Height Climbs

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“You don't have to be in shape to bowl. It's the only sport where there's a way to signal for a cocktail waitress.”

Way Sports Shapes Bowls Signals Cocktails Waitress Bowling

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“I was brought up with the 3 Ds: Determination, Discipline and Da Lord.”

Lord Discipline Determination Empowering Empowering Women

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“I cannot believe how fine I am with being bald.”

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“Optimism is a muscle that gets stronger with use.”

Use Optimism Stronger Muscles

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“I have never been happier or healthier than I am right now.”

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“At one point, we were all fearful. But as you get older, it's the things you don't do that you regret, more so than the things you do. When fear knocks, answer.”

Answers Regret Fearful

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“You have to be willing to put yourself in position for good things to happen”

Happens Position Willing Good Things

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“We are all a little bit stronger than we think we are.”

Thinking Littles Bits Little Bit Stronger

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“As I like to say, take the shot, even if your knees are shaking.”

Ifs Inspirational Shots Knees Shaking

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“There are those of us who believe out of that faith tradition that God never puts more on us than we can bear, and yet there are times, I think, particularly given what you were up against, that we have to question whether or not we have the capacity, the ability, the wherewithal, to actually endure it.”

Thinking Believe Given Ability Bears Capacity Tradition Endure

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“I think there's a myth that people feel, that people of success are never fearful, that we're never challenged, that we have some supernova - no, we're like everybody else.”

People Thinking Feels Myth Fearful Never Fear Supernova

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“There is no magical reason why I am where I am. And there is absolutely no reason why you can't be where you want to be. If it can happen for me, it can happen for you, too. And it would be a privilege for me to help you get there.”

Ifs Want Reason Helping Happens Would Be Privilege Reason Why No Reason

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“It's about focusing on the fight and not the fright.”

Fighting Cancer Time Management Fright Cancer Patients Inspirational Cancer

Author:Robin Roberts

About the Author

Born: September 30, 1926
Died: May 6, 2010
Known for: Baseball player
Quotes: 40

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