Quotes About Adversity

If I can make it through homelessness, I can make it through anything.

I am hated in my hometown.

Every day, it was the same: school, homework, farm work, training. Getting hurt or dying might've been better than the life I was living.

Nobody wants to rock their own life. But, on the other hand, when your life does get rocked, it affords you a certain level of emotional honesty. It liberates you to be who you really are.

The thing about boxers is that there's respect there. You beat me, and I may not like it, but you know what, deep down inside, I respect you. And that's the code of honor.

I know people started suspecting whether I was a woman or a man. All the honour I earned - I lost.

You can't throw a hook on the side of the road and expect to catch a fish in the grass.

America has always fascinated me; it's a country where you can make it from one side to the other with no money, by hook or by crook.

The teachers told me I wouldn't amount to anything because I was a bad kid. But I knew I could still hoop.

You might get fouled and have a no-call, but let's still go out and hoop. Just beat them up the other way, and that's with the scoreboard.

Life has not turned out as I hoped it would.

Everything happens for a reason, and hopefully it makes me a better person in the process.

What I learned at home was despair and hopelessness. What I learned at the pictures was don't give up the ship, we have only begun to fight, it's always darkest before the dawn.

When I was writing 'Withnail,' I was so busted flat that I had one lightbulb that I would carry around the house with me. I mean, really. No furniture, no money, and I was hoping to be an actor, but I could never get a job.

I know that there are many people who are hoping that things don't go well for me.

I was hoping David Haye would beat the fight out of me in the second fight.

I've got enough people hoping I'll fail that I need to be smart with my business.

I hate to blow my own horn, but I gave a lot of people fits.

Not only the bull attacks his enemies with curved horn, but also the sheep, when harmed fights back.

You don't get happy by sitting around going on, 'Oh this is a horrible situation, what to do?' You've got to find the courage to change that. I think change is extremely hard for people.

I have seen some horrible stuff said about me.

I've never really let any kind of negative things affect me, generally. I would take a positive out of the most desperately horrible situation.

You'd assume I was being bullied a tonne at school and it was horrible, but in reality, I really was getting bullied everywhere else.

So when people say how horrible it is that Donald Trump is president, well, yeah, but we've faced a lot worse than this and our country went on to go from the world of 'Mad Men' to the world it is today, and that's what's going to happen now. That's what's going to happen in the next 50 years. We're going to be fine.