Quotes About Adversity

In '81, my father had an attack of paralysis.

I was paralyzed from the chest down when I was 19, so I kind of put my head together about dying, and I think I've come to terms with it.

Being skint, drunk, paranoid - no, I don't wish that for myself.

My father showed me so much love. He showed my brother so much love. He just, he had a rough life. You know, he grew up in a boys home in the Bronx. He didn't really know his own family. So I couldn't hold it against him that he didn't know how to parent. He didn't know how to be the perfect husband. But he loved as much as he could.

Everything that happens to me in a day enhances my parenting.

Growth doesn't hurt. This is what I've learned. In the end, it doesn't hurt. It hurts while it's happening. But in the end, you know, for life, for parenting, and for the arts, it's not a bad - not a bad thing to try for.

Jadakiss is not no walk in no park. Nas is not no walk in no park. These are dudes that could have ended my career.

Sometimes it does me good to look back at the days when the living wasn't so good. I remember in 1945 the dressing-rooms were gone, the park was in ruins, no stand, nothing.

It's not an easy game at Goodison Park - it's always difficult there.

When I grew up, I was living on a council estate overlooking a car park for a good 16 years of my life.

I played a couple first-class matches at Carlton and Guaracara Park and it was a real burial ground for the fast bowlers.

It's not that every time India play they will have their best team on the park because there are bound to be injuries and other factors.

I had to host a comedy show the day after 9/11, and I really knocked it out of the park. But that was before the Internet really took off, so the only people that know are the people who were there.

I spent 18 months with the furniture parked in front of the radiators, cooking as quickly as I possibly could to use the least amount of gas and electricity. I unscrewed the lightbulbs in the hallway, unplugged everything at the wall so not even the LCD display was blinking away on the oven.

Leo, sadly, has Parkinson's, but he used to cook all sorts of dazzling things.

People overcoming the odds is actually a really important part of humanity, and I don't think we kind of get to celebrate that as much as we should.

Loss is part of life. If you don't have loss, you don't grow.

To a certain extent, I enjoy failure. It's part of the game. There's always room to grow; there's room to improve.

You know what, man, that's part and parcel of being a black person in this country: everything's harder. It just is.

I've had injuries that have hampered my career but that is part and parcel of being a footballer. You just have to bounce back and remain focused.

I will make a lot of mistakes and have to learn from them. It is part and parcel of the captaincy.

Struggle has been a part and parcel of my life.

I have always said we are going to play well and we going to play badly. And I have not got issues when people criticise as long as we don't play well. That's part and parcel of the game. I love it and that's how it should be.

I would have liked to have played more but injuries are part and parcel of football and you've got to shoulder it, got to take it on and get on with it.