Quotes About Adversity

I'm just trying to keep my mind and my body active. The tough part about it is that physically I'm sort of limited.

At one point in my career, while still hosting 'The Arsenio Hall Show,' I was told by my doctor that it might not be physically possible for me to have children.

I cannot count the times I've been defeated, humiliated, or physically injured immediately after saying the words, 'Hey, how hard can it be?' But that never seems to stop me from saying them again.

People who are against me attack me personally. They attack the way I look physically, they attack the way I dress, they attack everything but what I say.

When I'm boxing, if my career isn't going well, at least I feel mentally and physically strong.

'Indiana Jones' wasn't physically tough, but they are the only two films I've ever been ill on. On 'The Last Crusade,' I got sciatica. That's when the sciatic nerve, which goes through the funny hole in your pelvis down your leg, swells and rubs against the nerves.

I had attached my life to basketball so closely that it made me physically ill.

I had to play the cards that I was dealt to get better mentally, physically, and push myself to limits that I didn't think I was capable of.

When you play against older players, it's always a challenge physically and mentally.

You need to be mentally and physically very strong to go and perform in Australia.

Other than the laws of physics, rules have never really worked out for me.

At the age of 16, something happened with my finger and the doctor told me, you never can be a organist or pianist, so think about what you do with music.

I guess, you know, if I didn't make it with the piano, I guess I would've been the biggest bum.

When I was very small, the electricity was turned off because we didn't pay the bill. I remember sitting by the oil lamp listening to my mother playing 'Careless Love' on the piano.

I started with the piano-accordion and rebelled against it, but I could not afford piano lessons.

Accidents happen and all of that, but it's how we pick ourselves up from the accidents that matters.

I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.

If I fall, pick up the flag, kiss it, and keep on going.

You pick up some fans and a handful of haters along the way.

When you crash and burn, you have to pick yourself up and go on and hope to make up for it.

People only see what they want to see and sometimes you can't do anything about that, so you just pick up the baton and you just run with it.

I'm not one that sulks when he's injured. I use it as time to learn, to pick up on things.

Get used to dealing with failure as long as it doesn't hurt people around you, as long as it doesn't hurt you physically, or it doesn't hurt you so much that you can't pick yourself up.

I wanted to show that even if you fail, you have the ability to pick yourself up off the floor and try again. I wanted to show a different side of what a disability looks like to highlight all the invisible ones.