Quotes About Adversity

When you chase a dream, and no one understand or has your back except seven friends from high school and your grandma, it's not going to be easy.

My mother used to leave me and my brother in the house by ourselves. The authorities came and got us. It took a year or two to get us back with my grandmother.

My grandmother died when my mother was just 11 years old, and consequently, my mother never learned how to cook particularly well.

My mother dropped us off at a foster care centre when I was just two. But my grandmother ended up fighting for us and winning custody of us. We didn't have much, but she gave us character.

And I feel like, as a black man within black culture, I know very well firsthand - as do my parents and my grandparents and great-grandparents - we're used to things not going our way.

Abraham Lincoln went through 12 generals before he got Ulysses S. Grant. He had never done a Civil War before.

And dreams are not granted or given - they come with a price. No matter what your goal, you're bound to face adversity, and it's during that adversity, when you find out what your made of.

When things don't go your way, you brush it aside and carry on. Don't take what you have for granted. Enjoy what you have.

I wasn't granted the opportunity to fight some of the best guys in the world. And that was something that was not on my end by any sense of the imagination.

Leaders grasp nettles.

Once you touch that grass, you know in your head only one team is going to walk out of there with a win.

Whenever people are faced with any sort of adversity... they tend to gravitate toward things that make them comfortable, and things that they feel are important.

We figured the audience would want good stories, great art, wonderful characters, people you could fall in love with that we would immediately put through hell.

Great trouble breeds great art, I think.

I always believe with a great day, you also have a not-great day.

Sometimes you can lose games unluckily or the other team is better than you and has a great day as well. That can happen in football.

I've lived through the Great Depression.

America has always built ourselves out of adversity. All the way back to the Great Depression.

Whatever happens happens, but learning from the players at Chelsea is a great experience.

Once you make the majors, it's never a great feeling to go back to the minors - no matter what the circumstances.

I had a great job and I lost it, but I'm doing great now, I have a great family, my daughters all live with me. Did I have a setback? Absolutely, but I don't look at it like a ruined my life.

Very few of the great leaders ever get through their careers without failing, sometimes dramatically.

I'm interested in little people. 'The little, great people' is how I would put it, because suffering expands people.

It's not a good feeling when you get booed. But I don't want to be good because somebody booed me. I want to be great player because that's the way I am.