Quotes About Adversity

I think that's what's thrilling about leadership - when you're holding onto literally the worst possible hand on the planet and you know you're still going to win. How are you still going to win? Because that's when the character of the company really comes out.

I think my worst enemy is me.

The worst I encountered was Peter Manley talking behind me as I threw during our world championship quarter-final back in 2006.

The Watson fight was the worst beating I ever took in a ring, but I couldn't quit.

The worst position you are in is when you are on the medical bed, and you can't get out on that training pitch.

I'm my own worst enemy and I know that.

Cancer reminds me of a very bad but tenacious performer who, although no one wants to see, insists on doing an encore, having a return engagement, making a comeback and, worst of all, going on tour.

I always think that struggle can bring out the best in people - or the worst.

I've been through everyone's worst nightmare and I've come out the other side.

I think men under pressure - I mean, that's what brings out the worst and the best of us. I like to explore that quite a bit in my characters because I don't see a lot of it on the screen that moved me like the films that I grew up with - that are honest, at least, about honest emotions and honest heroism.

The worst time was 1983. Love and life and everything went wrong. I reached absolute rock bottom. I saw the Minotaur at the bottom of the abyss. I learnt of the harshness of the world and its impartiality to human failure.

Some of the worst things that have happened in my career, like things getting leaked, have actually been what's best for me, because people knew when I was on that show that I was really growing up.

I have a theory and I really believe it. I think your worst weakness can become your greatest single strength.

I've suffered through the worst possible conditions.

What's the worst that can happen? If it doesn't do well I can put on my big girl panties, deal with it and move on.

A lot of life is about trying to turn bad experiences into something good. Usually if you work at it, you can figure out a way to do it. Even our worst misfortunes are gifts.

I've seen the best and worst of times. My parents were divorced when I was a child. I was brought up by my father.

When things happen to you in the worst way, you live with it, you go over it, you think, 'What else could I have done?'

She not only expects the worst, but makes the worst of it when it happens.

The worst was when my skirt fell down to my ankles, but I had on thick tights underneath.

I'd like to say this was our worst game. Unfortunately, I can't.

We've had drive-by shootings. I've been spat on, slapped, shot at. One guy tried to stab me with a broken beer bottle. But the way we look at it, if people do the worst they can, we'll still wake up in glory.

I wish thy lot, now bad, still worse, my friend, for when at worst, they say, things always mend.

I don't believe in trouble. Because I think that trouble is sometimes good, sometimes bad. I've been known to be called trouble, which I think is quite a compliment. But I suppose, thinking about it, that my best and worst trouble has always had something to do with a man.