Quotes About Adversity

My acting, writing, performance - keep me on my toes.

Gambling has brought our family together. We had to move to a smaller house.

My parents were dealing with evictions and repossessions and electricity getting shut off, and I just realized that I had to get it together.

Laughter is a uniting force, it brings people together, and it makes hardship easier.

The beautiful thing about the NFL season is to see a team come together after they get to know each other in the spring and summer. You then go through adversity together and see how you respond. The teams that can respond in a positive way are the teams that are going to be there in the end.

I was born in a house without a light or a toilet, so why would I forget who I am or where I come from?

I'm cleaning toilets for $30 a day, because I needed that $30, and people are pointing at me, saying, Look at the big movie star. Look where he is now. I just said, I'm where God put me.

My classmates could see I was not similar. So they made me their scapegoat. They hit me or locked me in the toilets. During the break, I would take refuge in the chapel, or I would arrange to stay alone in the classroom.

I spent three weeks on a converted shrimp trawler with 17 people, two toilets, and one shower, all the while diving every day with very active sharks.

Something devastating can happen to you, and it can have positive consequences. By the same token, something fantastic can happen, and it can bring a lot of trouble. That's life.

I've always known that Rio and Tokyo are my two Olympics. Now that Rio hasn't gone to plan, Tokyo has to work, and I'm more motivated than ever.

My parents came from the Kyushu Island in the Southern part of Japan to find work in Tokyo. So we could only afford to live downtown, in a low-income area. It was just by the river, and whenever a typhoon came around, we were under water up to, like, here. That's the kind of place we lived in.

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

If you've ever found yourself pushed to the limits of your tolerance... you find yourself doing some things that, from the outside, can be seen as quite insane.

I've found that a lot of successful poker players grew up poor. And I'm convinced that poor people have a risk tolerance that rich people don't have because poor people fundamentally don't value money that much because they're used to not having it.

Because of my sickle-cell disease, I have a high tolerance for pain.

America is very tolerant of mistakes.

I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.

If you can't tolerate critics, don't do anything new or interesting.

Human beings tolerate what they understand they have to tolerate.

My mother says that I have abnormal capacity to tolerate pain. It's the first step to win over adversaries.

Fire really means a certain kind of burning in the soul that one can no longer tolerate when one is pushed against a wall.

Proactively working to develop mental strength increases your resilience to stress and reduces the toll it takes on you both physically and mentally.

An introvert as a child, I spent most of my younger years being bullied for my name. It took its toll on me, and by Class VI, I couldn't even have a proper conversation with anyone.