Quotes About Adversity

I grew up getting bullied and fighting a lot.

No one could save me from the grief of losing my child or losing my first marriage. I had to do that on my own.

I discovered on my own that I could cope better with the crippling effects of grief by taking care of myself, eating right, and working out.

When I was 12, my mother passed away from heart failure, leaving us in grief and in debt from her medical bills.

Embrace the grind because it was once taken from me.

I tell inmates all the time, 'Don't complain about your grind. Do your time.'

Yeah, I blew up. But people don't see the other side of it. They don't talk about how I played on a broken foot. They don't know about the everyday grind.

This is going to sound really crude, but I lost my fingers in a meat grinder.

There's certain points in the season - I think players go through it and teams go through it - where you just have stretches and you're stuck in a rut or you feel like nothing's going right. You just got to keep grinding, and eventually it'll turn.

Whatever you do in this business, there's going to be someone that critiques you, so you just deal with the criticism and keep grinding because that person isn't putting the work in that you're putting in.

Sometimes you have to hit rock bottom to think: 'Blimey, Ricky, get a grip.'

I'll never tell you I'm able to come to grips with 0-and-16.

I had to play arena football for three years. I had to work in a grocery store for a while to make ends meet. I had to go to Amsterdam to play.

When I had an accident in 2006, no one believed that I will return to the ground, but I did.

I come from a poor background, I've seen struggle. Money will come and go, but I will continue to be grounded.

I always look at a group of people who want to attempt an enterprise greater than their means. They begin on this enterprise and they fail.

Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.

In life, you know, they do this in focus groups; if you were in such and such circumstance, what would you do? Well, you never know what you're going do unless you're faced with it.

The only way to grow is to challenge yourself.

Grace under pressure isn't just about bullfighters and men at war. It's about getting up every day to face a job or a white boss you don't like but have to face to feed your children so they'll grow up to be a better generation.

Growing up, I was always the small guy.

Being sporty at heart, I've wanted to learn football since I was a child. But I never got the chance because, growing up, my family didn't have the finances for extra-curricular activities.

VW grows with the challenges. We continue to do, even when times are tough.

'Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice''s story is one of fate and growth.