Quotes About Adversity

I am ready to rot in jail for the rest of my life rather than admit that my small-minded enemies are right.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: If I didn't fight you, get ready. Get ready, because I'm coming.

I wasn't ready for the majors when I joined the Pirates in 1955. I was too young and didn't know my way around.

I am just a journeyman actor. Most often I take what's offered me, and I've been able to work year after year. I was in 'Scarface.' Some people think this must have done me a world of good. Truth to tell, six months after 'Scarface' I had to take a job with a real estate development friend for a few months just to get by.

Growing up, I didn't have a lot of real friends, and the people I was friends with, I've grown apart from - they were frenemies more than anything.

People always say, and my family has said it to me, that you know who your real friends are when you're at your lowest point and you don't have a job or whatever.

When you're not able to play ball anymore, you see who's really there for you. I would say that God works in mysterious ways, and He gets rid of your friends for you - the ones who were never really your real friends.

There was one stage in my football career where I thought I wasn't going to make it. We didn't have much money growing up and my dad always said to me that football wasn't a real job.

I was playing college football, and I hurt my knee very badly my senior year, and I didn't want to get a real job.

In a perfect dream, things would be set exactly the way you would want them. But I think it's more interesting that in real life, things aren't exactly the way you planned.

Driving in the rain, in real life, separates the men from the boys, I'd say.

Real life is difficult - some people find that hard to process.

But there were highs as well as lows, it was as though they said everybody was picking on the man who had more practical real life experiences than the whole batch of them put together.

The best place to find material is in real life. I've always maintained that it's not until the mid-20s that you have enough of a life to draw from. There's nothing better for a comic than to go through some bad stuff - and some good stuff, like getting married.

I think the kids that struggle are way more prepared for real life.

When it comes to Real Madrid, anything's possible.

I never said I wanted to leave Real Madrid. I never wanted that, but you have to move when they don't want you.

What the not-so-good moments gave me at Real Madrid, I think they helped me grow.

If you want to reach the Champions League final, you have to play the big teams like Real Madrid.

All my life I had played in a back-four, at Real Madrid Castilla and at Bolton.

You see who the real people are when they're challenged.

Real people live with, you know, being Christians with cancer, Christians with AIDS, and Christians coming back home with limbs missing from war, and Christians being evicted, and Christians losing their homes. And if you don't paint that picture, too, then I think that you are misrepresenting what the faith really can look like.

Another real problem was over putting our helmets on for re-entry, because we all had severe head colds. They couldn't come up there and make us. Houston, you have a problem!

Football coaches don't have real problems.