Quotes About Adversity

Republicans have said much worse things about me than any Democrat ever has.

Any time something goes wrong, Republicans pick on women and minorities.

This guy Clubber Lang, I've been him all my life. He's mean and hungry just like me.

When you experience lows like I have it just makes you hungry to go and succeed even more, and make sure days like that don't happen as much as they have done.

A lot of times I went to sleep hungry, and not because I was cutting weight for a fight.

Like a lot of people have said, it's not a bad loss to lose to Mark Hunt, so it's really like a learning lesson.

I've become the hunted. I'm enjoying that. It's better to be the hunted than the hunter.

Chad Mendes, I'm hunting with all the time.

Don't give up at the first hurdle you encounter.

I have been through so many grave situations. For my family and to be where I am, I have had to go through many hurdles and difficulties. But I did not lose my courage.

I don't know why it is we are in such a hurry to get up when we fall down. You might think we would lie there and rest for a while.

I had to fight; I had to fall, and I had to get hurt to be where I am.

I didn't get to be successful by letting people hurt Blackstone or me.

If I fell down and hurt myself, I never cried. There was no one to hear me.

I don't know how to be hurt.

Of course I get hurt.

I'm not thick-skinned at all, and of course I'm hurt by people attacking me as a person.

But hey, controversy - well, it hasn't hurt me in 50 years.

When I got hurt - I broke my back in a match in London, England - I had to retire and became just a commentator.

I'm not going to change my game because I got hurt.

Every day is an opportunity to fall or hurt yourself.

I love boxing. I box in a local boxing gym in London. I usually spar. But I've done two fights and I lost both of them admirably. I didn't realize how much it would hurt for them to actually hit me.

I was hurting. I had some ailments I was dealing with. It's not like I was holding out.

If you fight back and get hit, it hurts a little while; if you don't fight back it hurts forever.