Quotes About Adversity

I grew up in a pretty tough neighborhood.

I hope to be out there showing people that you can come back from really tough, awful times.

There's a lot of guys out there that can play at this level, and sometimes they might be discouraged because they come from a small school or a tough situation.

When I was growing up, my mother, who had been through a lot of terrible things in life, taught me that when life is tough your instinct is to close your heart. But if you can accept what happened and reach out to someone, there will always be someone less fortunate, or someone that can bring a solution and help your life.

I had a really tough time in high school.

My dad had a dream of living in an Irish castle, even when we were in Argentina, and in 1960 he found a place without any heat or running water. We had no money, so it was tough.

One of the reasons I survived as well as I did was my genetics. My mother and father both had very tough lives, and boy, were they survivors.

Sometimes when you are a professional footballer, you have to deal with tough decisions.

I ended up moving up to lightweight, which I didn't want, and fought a really tough guy, Will Brooks, and beat him like nothing.

I'm a very tough guy, and I fight hard, and I don't give up. And that makes me friends and that makes me enemies, and I know that.

I'm a big boy, and I'm a tough guy.

My background has made me the person I am today. It's made me a mentally and physically tough guy.

My dad had a 'fro, and I didn't. So I wore his hat and it always hit me in the face, so I just turned it around and it just stuck. It wasn't like I was trying to be a tough guy or change the way that baseball is played. It was just that my dad wore a size 7 1/2, and I had a 6 1/4. It was just too big.

Dennis Siver, he's a tough guy.

Pat Curran is a very tough guy to fight. He has a very good chin. I gave him five knockdowns and he survived.

I'm not a tough guy, but I'll throw down just like the rest of them if I have to.

You don't have to know anything about baseball to respond to Babe Ruth because he's just this magnificent human being. And a really good story because he was this kid who grew up essentially as an orphan, you know, had a tough life, and then he became the most successful baseball player ever. But he was also a really good guy.

Just growing up and going through life and how tough life was for me and my family, I'm always going to stay humble.

I have had a tough life, but I am proud that I fought my battle.

Football players have to grow up very fast. It's a tough life sometimes.

Once you've been through tough times, you can only become stronger.

Tough times call for tough choices and pinching every penny.

Tough times don't last. Tough people do. I preach that, and I guess you have to live to it.

The mark of the man is how he responds to situations. You're not going to avoid tough times. We're all over the barrel some of the time. What are you going to do about it?