Quotes About Adversity

Constantly getting knocked down and picking myself back up, the relationships I've been able to form with all the different people in the different cities, I wouldn't trade it for anything.

At the end of the day, not everyone's going to like what you do. There's always going to be that one person, or many people, who are going to keep on nagging at you and picking on every little thing that you do.

My dad taught me very early in life that whenever a child learns to walk, he falls a lot of times, but then he picks himself up and learns to walk like a man, and that is something which is a motto in life as well. You gotta pick yourself up, and you gotta walk, and you gotta walk strong.

I've been a lot of places and worked with a lot of different guys. High draft picks. Low draft picks.

I went undrafted, played summer league with the Heat. I got to training camp three weeks straight and I didn't make a shot, whether live or pickup, coach in the gym or not.

I can't think of a story that doesn't have something terrible in it. Otherwise, it's dull. So when I embarked into the world of picture books, my first thought was to do something about the dark.

I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

Life is not a piece of cake, and it certainly is not for many of the people I know.

Maybe you don't work for seven months a year, but you'll work again. It may be a piece of garbage, so you wear hip boots.

I always conceive a piece as a different set of challenges.

I couldn't write a female who fell to pieces every time something didn't go right in her life. She would just annoy me too much.

Musical theatre history is littered with bad reviews for now classic pieces.

I've learned a lot just being around LeBron. People say things about him all the time, but he would never say anything back. That's what I learned from him: Don't retaliate to articles or pieces or to things that are said about me.

My mother died when I was 17, and I moved in with my dad to make a 12-month pig's ear of retaking my A-levels.

It's beyond my control who's going to cast me or how you're going to pigeonholed, so for me, it's just I want to keep doing different things because I want to get better, so hopefully I'll be hired to do them.

Dehumanizing sounds so extreme, but when you're fighting for a football at the bottom of the pile, it is kind of dehumanizing.

You create a pile of dirt and then drive over it. We may have to learn to drive all over again.

A lot of people get up to the top of the pile, maybe get one No. 1 contender match-up, and if they lose, they drift into obscurity. I lost, and I went back a bit. But I built myself back up. Three times.

I have big problems with the left side of my body. I'm taking pills so I can play. I take five pills before every game.

Anybody can pilot a ship when the sea is calm.

I wanted to be a doctor at one point and I also wanted to be a pilot. I think if you grow up in a dodgy area, reality often beats down those ambitions as you get older. But with me that never really happened.

I have some eye problems from when I was a pilot.

Being in a male-dominated career field as a combat pilot, I got used to kind of blocking out the lies in the attacks that people would levy against me and trying to tell me who I am and define who I am when I know what I'm fighting for.

Acting was never part of the plan - at one point I wanted to be an RAF pilot, but I wasnt made of the right stuff.