Quotes About Adversity

The idea of us telling a story where a character doesn't get everything he wants at the end is one of the relatable things - dealing with failures and missteps in life - and it's something that's so rarely dealt with in movies, especially kids' movies.

I've rarely met a miserable, self-pitying blind person.

Proving yourself in a field where the casualty rate is so notoriously high is an ongoing challenge.

There are always going to be people who are against you or don't rate you.

If you play football, there's going to be a 100 percent injury rate. Something is going to be bothering you. So I just try to focus on the things that I can do to help my team.

As you get stronger, you learn to maintain the position against higher rated players. This comes with experience.

The worst time was in 1985 when house prices crashed and interest rates went up to 14 percent. I was not winning on the snooker table and I had this big image to keep up - and a lifestyle where I lived beyond my means.

I'd rather have a broken arm than a broken heart.

If a rating is bad in another sport, do you see a writer say, 'This sport's over?' No.

Times are harder there right now. I think it's been well publicized. We are - the show is not where I want it to be right now. The ratings are not where I want them to be. I want to make it better.

What do you do when your world is falling apart? How do you hold onto the real and the rational? I think that's very relatable for people.

He will fight a rattlesnake and give it the first two bites too.

There are times in my life where I'm frantic and I think to myself, 'Okay, what would Raven do now?' As dumb as that sounds, it's in my head.

When I am on 'Raw' and 'Smackdown,' I try to make the best of it.

I was on 'Monday Night Raw' - and nobody realizes this - every time you go from 'Raw' to 'SmackDown' or 'SmackDown' to 'Raw,' it shakes up your career; it shakes up your life.

I think I get a raw deal from referees. But as a professional footballer I have to accept it, and that's what I do.

It might seem that way, but getting hit with a bare knuckle is not as raw as getting hit with a bare knee, or getting kicked with a shin to your head, which I have been a few times. In that sense, it's nothing.

I'm someone who's always looking for hope - if there's a ray of hope, a shrapnel, shred, a flake of hope - because I take the misfortune or hard times of others very seriously.

Ray Lewis, the greatest player ever, has been hurt a couple of times, but he has always come back strong.

I don't know what my limitations are until I reach them. I look for the challenge.

It seemed to me that I had barely reached the Court when people were trying to get me off.

Aching all over, we reached level ground again, and Mr. Christy withdrew his claims, and agreed that no road anywhere else could possibly be so bad as a Mexican road; a decision which later experiences only served to confirm.

When I reached my senior year in high school, I fell into a hole that took a couple of decades to get out of.

I get a lot from people who are in oppressed situations and say they were gonna give up. A lot of people have reached out and said they were in bad situations and really need me to be successful.