Quotes About Adversity

When you are growing up, everyone will help you. When you reach the top, everyone will start pulling you down. The same people who help you will be the same people who try to pull you down.

I've always been somewhere down from the top, so I've never had to suffer being knocked off the top.

Most girls are taught to avoid risk and failure. We're taught to smile pretty, play it safe, get all A's. Boys, on the other hand, are taught to play rough, swing high, crawl to the top of the monkey bars, and then just jump off headfirst.

I've been in crisis situations, I've been down, I've been hurt, I've been behind on the scorecards, and I've had to pull that shot out to knock somebody out. I've been in all kinds of situations and still come out on top.

If you can stand up for your faith when you're on top, you can stand up for it now that you're at the bottom.

I think I created my own narrative, being a guy who kind of got chewed up and put through the grinder and coming out on top.

You're always facing the top defenders in this league. To go out there and do your best, that's all you can ask for.

It's important to get a good start at a top club like Real. When things are going badly, you can overcome it quickly at a top club.

It's hard to always be on top. You go down, you go up.

It's great when you can challenge yourself against the top players in tense situations. I've always enjoyed it.

It's good to go down because then you know you have to climb back to your old spot. And you can't be on top and not know that you can only go down.

Everybody on top has a ton of haters.

You can never have enough reinforcements, resources for black women to thrive in the world. The topic has been addressed a million times before, but it will never end because what we're up against keeps morphing, and we have to figure out how to beat it.

I have three tank tops which I wrung terribly, fixed them many times. I had people rip them in the ring and swear at them, and I'd fix them.

I had to overcome bullies and other people who didn't like me and tormented me. I overcame those things with positive affirmations and setting goals. When I would set goals, I wouldn't let anything get in the way of me breaking them. As I found success, a lot of those things subsided and became less important.

For 'Rocky II,' I got a torn pectoral muscle, I got all beat up inside, I had to have an operation to splice things back together.

I've had both my eye sockets crushed, I've been set on fire, uh, that was not fun, I've torn a pec, torn biceps.

Over the years, I've had two ankle operations, torn my hamstring, had my hip resurfaced, and snapped the anterior cruciate ligament in my knee.

I know I will never wear sandals now anywhere. I got in a fight in the back of a grocery store when I was really young, like 14 or something. And I remember my feet were so torn up afterwards because I lost my sandals in the middle of the fight. My toenail was missing. It just sucked.

It don't matter if I got a broke hand, got a torn muscle: I'm going to fight like heavyweight champions do.

A torn rotator cuff is a cancer for a pitcher and if a pitcher gets a badly torn one, he has to face the facts, it's all over baby.

My knee was torn up. I tore every ligament in my knee. It was a very, very bad injury. I had to do what the doctors told me to do, and I did that. The next year, I came back and led the league in rushing.

I've rolled and torn ligaments in my ankle.

I have played with a torn bicep before. I have come back from a torn Achilles before. So I guess it's just in my DNA.