Quotes About Adversity

You burned the city of London in our houses and we felt the flames.

I had what you could call a chaotic childhood. My parents divorced when I was 2; I went back and forth between my mom's and dad's houses for years.

Since Mia, my eldest, was born, we've been through the gamut of shelters, transitional housing and even living in a camper in a driveway.

Since that moment in Houston where I fractured my collarbone, I've experienced a lot more experiences in the NFL than I had up to that point. A lot of them great, some of them not so great.

I think my failures in Houston is what made me who I am. I think it's given me that drive, that drive to keep working, because you never know what can happen type deal.

I guess you never have any clue how many people are in your corner until something tough happens.

People are obviously capable of handling the highest of highs and the lowest of lows. But I don't know how many people have had to experience them within seconds of each other.

It's how many times you get back up that defines you.

No matter how many times you get beat, you don't mind seeing them get beat again. That's what a good heel is in our business. I think JBL did it just as good as anybody.

I don't think your ability to fight has anything to do with how big you are. It's to do with how much anger is in you.

Very conscious of the fact that an effort was being made to destroy my mind, because I was deprived of books, deprived of any means of writing, deprived of human companionship. You never know how much you need it until you're deprived of it.

Life is going to happen to you no matter what weight you are, no matter how famous you are, no matter how much money you have in the bank. No one gets a free pass.

When you are in a competition, and there's however many men competing alongside you, you do not get to determine when you go to lift... you don't know how many guys will make it to the next round. You don't know how long they're going to take.

Children can only take so much, and they deal with it however they can.

Kids gave Elon a very hard time, and it had a huge impact on his life.

The ability to deal with pressure is hugely important.

It's so easy to do things you like. But then, the thing is, when you're afraid of something, face it; go for it. You become a better human being.

I won't tell you that I've never been discouraged. Of course I have; as a human being, that's bound to happen.

I'm a human being and every human being has problems.

We don't grow as human beings from good things happening. We grow from failures.

I've seen the human condition under the most trying of circumstances.

It took one human error to take my leg and one human error to take my mother's.

If people are shooting at you, it's human nature to be afraid. I was afraid. I'll be quite blunt about that.

A lot of things in life, you can be told the right way to do it, but you've kind of got to learn by your own mistakes. It's just human nature.