Quotes About Adversity

I am determined to go through the horror of this world.

There's horror in your life, believe me, whether it's coming, or you've just been lucky to miss it today.

I'd never thought of horror as being so challenging, but it is.

It's the fight game, and everyone loses. You win some, you lose some. You just try to get back up on the horse.

After I broke my leg I had to go back and do one of the remakes of 'The Magnificent Seven' and ended up on a horse that pitched me off and broke my leg again... I rode horses pretty well. I just didn't like doing it.

I used to ride horses and I remember one day I was working with a horse and we were having it jump, you know? There was a competition and so we were doing a test run and the horse fell on top of my body. I was a kid, like 7 years old. It took them a long time to take the horse off of my body after it had fallen.

I have fallen off many horses.

I was 19 years old, and I felt like I had the flu one day. Within 24 hours, I was in the hospital on life support, and I was given less than a 2 percent chance of living. It took five days for the doctors to find out that I had contracted bacterial meningitis.

One year in the hospital will make you strong. It made me strong.

After the Klitschko fight they left me for dead in the hospital. It was just my wife and me - we were alone and had no money.

I broke my leg playing football and cycled to the hospital.

We are a resilient people defined by our hospitality.

A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius.

I first found out I had cancer on my eye and lost an eye to this disease when I was 16, and I've since had cancer in my kidneys and pancreas and a host of other areas.

I remember winning the Asian Cup in 2004 in China, coming through so much adversity including a final against the hosts. We won 3-1 and it was a wonderful competition, which we won by playing great football.

I've been hot, I've been lukewarm, I've been freezing, but I've always been a headliner.

There were times when we didn't have hot water or a phone line. But I guarantee you, we always had cable, and it was always on.

I spent eight years living without heat and hot water.

I wrote the 'Marigold Hotel' series and with the first one, people hated it in the U.K. but in America they really liked it.

I think anybody who really knows me knows I'm not a media hound and knows that I'm really sort of trying to do the best I can with the situation that I found myself in.

In an earthquake, I shouldn't run out of the house - I should run into it.

If you look back over my life, there's been a lot of things that have happened that I really haven't had any control over, from my childhood to where I grew up to what went on in the household to stuff with my mother, to my daughter. The list goes on and on.

A lot of people think I grew up with just my brother and me, but mom was there even when she wasn't. We had a good household.

You've got to bring your A-game when you're in the same household as a military guy.