Quotes About Adversity

We all go through things in life. You try to stay positive, but you can't ignore bad things that happen. You just try to work through them.

Even if we were friends, I consider this a sport, a competition, so there are no ill feelings towards any other fighter or whatever.

Within my first year of moving abroad living on my own, my sister got ill - she got cancer - and at the same time, my mum got cancer, and she passed away. I think at that time it was a hard challenge for me to deal with it, but in a way, I have always taken strength out of anything that has come at me.

Just two years after hitting the top, I hit the bottom. I found myself penniless, deathly ill and getting a divorce. It was all a result of my ignorance. I didn't know how to handle everything that hit me at once.

I would never have looked at cycling as something I could do had I not got ill and lived in Manchester where British Cycling is.

I was really ill growing up as my body was rejecting everything.

I've been booed before. There have been times when I've wanted to boo myself. But a lot of ill feelings can be cured by winning.

I'm not considered as illegitimate as I once was. Because in a sense, I'm like lip cancer - I'm not going to go away.

People that go through serious illness - you can either go one way or the other. You can either become despondent about it all. Or it kind of rejuvenates you, makes you focus on what's important.

Sometimes, I get afraid it has defined me, that sense of grief, loss and illness. But actually, it is about allowing myself to take hold and say: 'This is part of who I am, but not only who I am.'

The good thing about having this illness is that it allows me to be a little bit crazy.

Well, I like to think that my illness has prevented me from rising to any number of dizzy heights.

I think everyone in their life goes through challenges, whether it's love or money, kids or illness... You have to really not run away from that stuff.

When I was 15, I had this illness and was basically housebound for two years.

In the case of my husband, we found that facing a life-threatening illness prodded us to make a dramatic change in our lives.

People who have any kind of illness use humor as a type of coping.

Haven't we all been taken aback when an illness suddenly causes the voice to crack and sometimes dry up completely?

The Khmer Rouge can't destroy me. I still have my imagination and am capable of making films. I am not locked up.

Fighting cancer taught me more than I ever could have imagined, but I've beaten it.

I kind of blossomed backwards. I got cancer, fell in love and have a magical life. I never imagined it would happen that way, but you just go with the flow, right?

I never imagined while going through this horrifying illness that I would write a book or that it could ever be a movie.

Coming from Flint, I was really immature on the court and off the court.

We think we can control life by controlling our immediate circumstances. But we can't!

Being an immigrant gives you so much courage.