Quotes About Adversity

I have Ataxic Cerebral Palsy, which happened at birth. I was starved of oxygen and didn't breathe for fifteen minutes, which I really wouldn't recommend.

I had to have shoulder reconstruction.

The record companies didn't want 'Stony Road,' and it ended up being a gold album. They didn't want 'Blue Guitars,' and we did 165,000 books.

Everything about my life was culturally rich, and all the people I met sort of reinforced the wackiness that was normally inside of me. No one said, 'You can't do that,' until I got to real record companies, that is.

Bananarama were written off from day one. Nobody believed in us but us. We kept having hits despite the record company, despite the press.

In the early Nineties, after my first round of financial problems, I started a studio in Kensal Road in London right at the time when no record company wanted to hear anything from Leo Sayer.

I had knockback after knockback before I got anywhere. After I got my first record deal I thought that was it, then Gut Records went into liquidation. I was 20. I had no idea what that meant. I had a few days to get myself out of that contract or my work would be owned by someone else.

At my second record label, they told me and other female artists that some of us were going on the chopping block. I was 19... and it was devastating.

I got out of the business because I went from being the biggest artist on my record label to someone they didn't even want to have around.

A circumstance that I was dealing with when recording my second album was I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.

I'll probably have to open a recording studio at some point because I won't be able to pay the bills.

Yes, I would say I had quite a rough time from 1992 to 1996. After the highs of the Eighties, work became slow from around 1987 to around 1997. I was running a small recording studio in Shepherd's Bush but wasn't making a great deal from it.

Udaya Laxmi is not the only athlete who has been asked by the administrators to go after my records; they now want to take away the only record I hold, in the 400m hurdles that I set at the final of the Los Angeles Olympics in 1984.

If we got into a situation where people start burning our records, then bring it on. That's the whole point. The gloaming has begun. We're in the darkness. This has happened before. Go read some history.

I'm embarrassed to admit that I thought the world was ending my junior year of high school after a dye job reacted badly with my perm and left me with a sparse and burnt up hairline. Even though I went natural a few years later, my edges never seemed to recover.

I've had to recover not only from a single well-publicized incident, but several years of press aftermath.

A fighter can always recover, and you never know what they're going to come back with.

The Odyssey is the story of someone who, in the course of diverse experiences, acquires a personality or affirms and recovers his personality.

I like to be busy, especially after I lost against Luke Rockhold. The best way to recover is to get another fight.

I enjoy played flawed men who are pushed to the limit, who make mistakes and then have to recover.

After a big defeat, any player feels affected - it is about how long he needs to recover.

I've had three injuries, and one took from 2016 to 2017 for me to recover. Three months I was out because I wasn't perfect, and I lost a lot of games for this injury.

I've seen young guys break down in those situations. They're cruising along, playing great, then their minutes get funky and they fall apart. Some of them never recover.

Mistakes are a risk but recovering from them shows a lot of personality.