Quotes About Adversity

Hiddink really taught me a lot. We talked every day at Anzhi and I saw how he dealt with difficult situations, how he always seemed to know what the players needed. He was a great teacher. I hope I can be as successful as him.

That's a great team we lost to. It just wasn't our day.

If somebody said, 'You're going to be the Number 1 pick; you're going to have a great team around you all these years'? It would've been too easy.

In order to be a great team, you've got to have focus no matter what's going on.

I jokingly say if there was one great thing about, you know, the Lebanese Civil War was that it forced me to read.

I've learned that many of the worst things lead to the best things, that no great thing is achieved without a couple of bad, bad things on the way to them, and that the bad things that happen to you bring, in some cases, the good things.

Feeling really safe as an actor is not a great thing because you're not learning or growing.

In my career, I've always felt like all great things came at once, and when something goes bad, it always seems that everything else seems to start going bad.

I've just come to try to see the positive in everything. Despite people saying 'The Room' is the worst movie or whatever, it's brought about a lot of great things.

I could lose and it could be the best fight ever, it still does great things for me.

There are so many great things about this country, but certain things we can't take over and over and over again.

I would be a fool to say I enjoyed being in borstal, but when I was there I had a great time.

Being robbed is a really great way of editing your belongings.

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

The greatest thing about fighting a guy like Dave Rickels: He always comes to fight.

The 'Lone Star' experience was tough at the time, but it really allowed me to look at things from a 3,000-foot high view. You can think something is the greatest thing in the world, but, as we know, anything can happen. It really taught me that I always want to make choices that I believe in artistically. No one can take that away from you.

Sometimes in greatness you fall short, only to rise again.

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

I always believed in myself, and even in the bad times, when I'd do bits of greatness here and there, it was those kinds of things that kept me alive and helped me to get to where I am now.

I've been around a lot of greats I seen in this industry that have problems, but the comeback can be that much greater.

Greece is not an easy country to do business in.

I made three films in Greece, and they're made under very specific, very limited conditions.

I've been criticized my whole career. When I got drafted in the second round in the green room, they said I wouldn't even make it in the N.B.A.

People are talking of his susceptibility to the rising delivery, but let me tell you that when you are out of form, every ball looks like a hand grenade.