Quotes About Adversity

I always think the best players come from the areas where there are loads of chimney pots, where they have been brought up a little bit tougher than the others.

I think that one thing that I've prided myself on is that tough situations make for tougher people and that was one of my goals as well getting into this sport, I wanted to be a tougher human. I wanted to be a tougher man and basically when I had kids I'd be able to be like a superhero to them, and I feel like I'm accomplishing that.

The challenges of my career have made me better and tougher overall and made me resilient.

The toughest opponents for me are the defenders who are tough in the way they play - where you can't see a way through.

I had reconstructive pectoral surgery, I had a cervical neck fusion and a scope, and the scope was the toughest.

I'm a proven fighter - overcoming life's toughest challenges.

Patience may be the toughest thing when you're injured.

We always say in the Obama world, in the toughest times, you can laugh or you can cry, so you might as well laugh.

I lost my parents, which is the toughest thing to overcome.

The toughest fight I've ever had was T. J. Grant.

Hiding my migraines on the set may have been my toughest challenge as an actor. There were times when the pain from migraine headaches was so severe that I literally had to crawl across my dressing room floor. But I couldn't let anyone know. If they thought I might slow production, I figured that would end my career.

I've been in this position many times and I know it's these so-called easy fights that can be harder than the toughest ones.

I want to fight all the toughest guys in the world. I'm not trying to duck anybody or scared of anybody. I want to fight everybody.

That '05 Ashes and where that then took me personally for the next 12-18 months was the toughest point of my career.

My mom's one of the toughest ladies I know. I've seen her lose both her brothers, both her parents. She's been through a lot, and to see her get up every day and put a smile on her face, that shows nothing but strength.

Going back down to the minors is the toughest thing to handle in baseball.

I grew up in the '50s, a tough time for African Americans. I had friends whose fathers would openly say, 'Just bite your tongu;, don't cause any problems.' My father was not like that. Even in the toughest times racially, if somebody disrespected his family, they were in trouble.

It's not for everybody, and some of the toughest people I've ever met in my lifetime, I met in the wrestling ring.

The three toughest fighters I fought were Sugar Ray Robinson, Sugar Ray Robinson, and Sugar Ray Robinson.

If you get into an armbar and someone locks it down on you, it's easy for you to tap out, but sometimes dealing with certain things, fighting through certain adversities, and being that I've been in some of the toughest situations in life, it just gives me an edge on my opponent that I'm going to torture him and beat him up.

Dealing with my first pro loss was the toughest adversity of my career.

Chhichhore' is the toughest film that I have done.

Getting up in front of the toughest crowds, you know, playing pubs in South Armagh - where people didn't necessarily even know what stand-up comedy was - you had to force yourself to do it. It went against every instinct in your body, but you did it anyway.

I want the hardest, toughest challenges out there for me.