Quotes About Adversity

There was a very bad phase for me where for two years, I did not get any work, and this was initially when I started, in 2014-15. I did not do any work during that time, I did not even get ads.

Unfortunately, we all go through bad phases.

Fear is a phenomena that each one of us faces, in different ways.

The lows have been frustrating, and very challenging times, but the highs have been phenomenal.

I think everybody from Philadelphia been shot at before.

This is what Philadelphia fighters are all about - rising to the occasion - and that's what I've been doing my whole career.

Growing up for me in the Philippines was hard to read comic books because I'm blind.

It was already hard enough growing up in the Philippines but imagine being blind, that's 10 times harder.

My philosophy is that you do what you have to do.

It's almost like a lot of black people in America, a lot of young black men, are born with this cloud over their heads. It's their penitentiary cloud, this philosophy we all have, that it's harder for us.

Having a phobia has changed me.

I'm like a phoenix. I rise from the ashes.

My mother was a phoenix who always expected to rise from the ashes of her latest disaster. She loved being Judy Garland.

Words do cut, and they do hurt. It was one thing growing up where you were bullied, but you'd just come home. Now you can't really escape it. It's to a point where you turn off that phone, you live your life, and you try not to let the words of others offend or stop you from being you and living your life.

Some of the kids in school used to call my father a fake or a phony. That kind of thing brought on a few fights.

Some people, myself in particular, have an adversarial relationship with the camera, and it sprouts up in every photograph.

To be a geisha, you have to have to an iron-clad layer around you - around your physical body and your heart.

If we think about physical strength and that women lack in it, we must understand that in a tough situation, mental strength is more important than physical power. So, women are equally strong for combat roles.

There is a physicality where I had to become a bit bigger to face bigger players.

The confidence is there, the game is there, but physically you can't fight nature sometimes. You can't do much about it.

I couldn't change the fact that I did my ACL, but I could control how I reacted to it. That's what I focused on, becoming stronger mentally and physically.

I've done what I could as far as getting physically healthy after my knee injury, and I've done what I could to get mentally healthy after losing my husband.

I was with Luke Shaw at Southampton. He's a very strong boy. He's had a horrific leg injury. You don't come back from that without being mentally and physically strong.

Sarah is very strong. She's really intelligent and she's very physically capable. I like to put that into my own life as well.