Quotes About Adversity

Everybody hates you when you're the best, and everybody hates you when you're the worst.

I stopped hating people. I also tried to see the positives in negative situations that I found myself in.

Sometimes the adversities you go through help you become a person you are proud of, and instead of hating what you're going through, maybe bless it because for some reason; it is going to build you into that person that you are proud of being.

You walk into an arena with 10,000 people and no security and everybody hating you, it takes some gumption.

For my entire Duke career, people were gunning for us and hating us and wanting us to lose, so I got used to that right away. Every team is going to give you their best shot. Everyone wants to beat you.

Fear and hatred can be the things that drive you. I don't always think of fear as a bad thing, it gives you fight-or-flight.

Even though I will never be evicted again, I am haunted by those times and still work relentlessly.

You've got to be able to take the bad events with the good ones. You've got to learn to deal with them and learn to take as much as you can from those. Have fun and put as much as you can into it. As long as you've done your best, that's all you can do.

It builds character, it builds chemistry, when you're fighting amongst each other and able to brush it off and still talk and still have fun with each other.

There is no safe haven in today's markets.

I'm just into having fun, because I went through some bad years that really depressed me and made me angry.

My mother married this guy, his name was Darryl. And he was moving us to Hawaii. And he was a musician. He was working with Don Ho's daughter, actually. And then he ended up meeting some girl, left my mom, and me and my mother and brother were stuck in Waialua at Cement City. It was pretty much the armpit of Oahu.

Either you face the challenges in life head on or back out. And I am not someone to back out from challenges.

Having already been a head coach and having been fired, you never want to be in a situation where you're not prepared.

When you can't read or write at 14 or 15, in most cases you're headed for trouble, and trouble was finding me.

Tobey Maguire and I had a tough relationship - it was a tough working relationship. We butted heads, and ultimately, I lost the Los Angeles game because of differences with him. But then I moved to New York and built a bigger game, five times bigger, making more money, and that was pretty exciting.

We try not to let pressure get into our heads and play the way we usually do.

In boxing, there are lot of things that happen where they try to slow down the process and try to get to the other team, trying to get into our heads.

Playing in adversity is when we show we have clear heads.

Things heal. Bad stuff happens, but you go on. Life takes care of it.

In life, you have to learn how to heal. You never get over stuff, but you have to learn how to heal.

I heal pretty well and I know if I crash on the first day of the Tour de France, I've got to get up and get on with it.

I'm a fast healer. I was on the air a week after I got shot.

There's a way of dealing with hardships that are healthier than going out. That's what I've learned.