Quotes About Adversity

After recovering from COVID-19, I had to be again admitted to a nursing home as I was suffering from gastroenteritis and UTI.

It would be completely wrong and arrogant of me to say that this is what I am, an inspiration to others. During the course of my recovery, I bumped into people with amazing stories, far more amazing than mine.

My 20s were gone, my 30s were recovery, my 40s is where I am self-sufficient.

I thought it was a little ankle sprain, but it was a little more than that. The road to recovery was tough, but I knew that I had to fight. I couldn't be disappointed, I couldn't be sad, I just had to get up and keep the smile on my face and get back. In the sport I play, injuries are part of it.

During your career, you have to make decisions. Sometimes maybe you don't make such a good decision and at the end you have to try and recreate a position.

I went to jail for a year when I was 17. When I got out, my mother took me to the recruiting office, and I spent the next six years in the Navy.

I've said this about many people, but when you were recruiting against John Beilein you knew it was a fair fight, a real fight and he was going to do it the right way. I have a lot of respect for John. He's a heck of a coach and he will do a great job in Cleveland.

I grew up in Plaza East public housing in the Western Addition, five of us living on $900 per month. 'Recycling' meant drinking out of old mayonnaise jars.

I've had years of teasing about my red hair, but I definitely think it toughened me up. If you're ginger, you end up pretty quick-witted.

I have been in an experience where I thought everything that I had hoped for in my life was taken away from me, and I had to redefine what mattered.

I was made redundant from a job as a PA in a shirt-making company in 1996. I was devastated. I had been there for three years, and it was a job I really liked.

My dad worked for Kodak and was made redundant when I was about 14. Despite this, my parents did everything they could to help me and my sister do what we wanted to do.

When the chips are down, life forces you to take inventory and reevaluate the people in your life.

I had four great years at West Ham. People will always refer to the difficulties at certain times, but you get those everywhere.

It is always hard when the referee is against you.

When I played, you had a lot of enforcers. You would go to the hole, get knocked down, and the referee would look at you and say, 'Get stronger, get up, and keep playing.'

I don't know any successful entrepreneur that doesn't have at least a handful of stories about the things they did that went horribly wrong.

A handicap is only if you let it be a handicap.

I think what we do best, in the artistic world, are the things where we're handicapped.

As much as you learn to handle failure, you must learn to handle success too, because that's also important.

You face distractions, you face adversity in life and you have to be able to handle it, you have to be able to fight through it and become a better man and become a better player because of it.

You have to handle adversity well. There are roadblocks you will have to fight through.

God never gives us more than we can handle. Everything that comes our way is coming our way so that we can grow and evolve.

I never thought there would be a day when I would have to handle things without my father.