Quotes About Adversity

I'm an immigrant. I came here when I was 3 months old.

I find that women... deal with immigration differently. And I'm interested in that.

Immigration is tough. My daughter-in-law is going through the immigration process as we speak.

Nobody's immune from getting beat. If you're not aware of that, you really don't have a great perspective.

I'm not immune to being daunted.

I wish I felt that I acted like Korra in any part of my life. I really carry around 'Be the leaf' in my head. That's not a character, but it's something from the show that's really impacted my daily life.

I never thought my imperfections would be weaponized and used to try to destroy me and the community that I have loved.

Losses have propelled me to even bigger places, so I understand the importance of losing. You can never get complacent because a loss is always around the corner. It's in any game that you're in - a business game or whatever - you can't get complacent.

Not many people get up after a setback or two. But those who do make the impossible come true.

People might have the impression I had an easy life, but it's been anything but that.

Imprisonment hit me so hard - much harder than I had thought.

Everything is a learning experience, both good and bad that happen to you. You take what happens and learn from it. That's how I look at everything, the good and bad. You learn about it, and you improve.

The better the players you play with and against, it does improve you.

Sometimes maybe it just doesn't go right in the game, but that's football, and I think I'm definitely improving game by game, and getting more experience is good.

I just gotta keep improving until I know that if I end up in a certain situations I know that I can feel comfortable.

I never finished high school. In fact, I hated going to school.

Well, I always run the risk of falling on my face, which has in fact happened.

I think that's why I was able to do well in the beginning: because it was such a foreign thing. People frame it in a negative way, like, 'For Asian-Americans there's no one out there, so that must be really bad for you.' No, I benefited from it.

Sometimes when you're given hurdles, it makes you more creative in the end.

Everybody's got something. In the end, what choice does one really have but to understand that truth, to really take it in, and then shop for groceries, get a haircut, do one's work; get on with the business of one's life. That's the hope, anyway.

The scandal happened and I made the best of it. I kind of feel like in the end it was a blessing.

No matter who you are, or what you're doing, there's always going to be someone that wants to be better than you. So I try to take the high road and be the bigger person. That way, you always win in the end!

Failure usually works for me in the end.

I was part of the Australia team that lost the first Test at Edgbaston in 1997 and yet came back to win the series quite comfortably in the end.