Quotes About Adversity

If they're not the toughest fights I can get, then give me a complete washup, someone that'll be an easy payday. But I'd rather have the toughest fights I can get so I can get to the title the fastest way possible.

That was one of the toughest things for me, mentally. I was quite broken. Everything was going great, I played a few games, I was Young Player of the Year and then I was in the reserves again.

My brother was probably one of the toughest kids from my neighborhood and he didn't make it easy on me. He made sure I was getting beat up as much as possible growing up. If he wasn't beating me up, he was making his friends beat me up.

Meldrick Taylor deserves the rematch. He gave me the toughest fight of my career.

Khan was one of the biggest fights of my career and also one of the toughest in my life. He's a very good boxer.

The toughest situations help you understand your true strength and that's how it has been for me always.

It was the toughest phase of my life. I suffered almost a career-ending injury. Getting through the first phase of my injury was tough.

You go through slumps in this game, and you just have to work through them. You're going to miss putts out on an LPGA tour and have bad rounds. You just have to think to yourself that you always have tomorrow, and you're lucky enough to be out here just playing golf for a living.

We've had a lot of agencies try and sabotage our tour.

I blew the college boards, and to ease the snub from Harvard made a tour of Europe.

In the early 1980s, I got into a war with my management - they just kept on suing me and I lost everything. So I had to go out on tour to make sure the electricity stayed on.

World class players don't become rubbish overnight, especially over one tour.

I had a really successful 2013, '14, '15. Touring, just doing my thing. Super - I mean, can't complain about nothing. And my road manager got killed. And it ruined everything. Now, I tell people - I don't know if this is a word. But I tell people that that re-sensitized me.

Touring itself - and I was very young, and a lot of it I did by myself - it's lonely, but it does give you some kind of spine, I think. It does give you some kind of grit.

In Free, we managed ourselves, and it was too tough for us to handle all of what that entailed when we got to touring America.

If someone wants to shout at me and tell me I'm bowling badly, that's fine. I may not agree but it's fine. It's part of the experience of being a touring cricketer.

You never know what will happen during a tournament: things like injuries, for example.

To win a major tournament you have to face the top teams at some point, but if you avoid those at the beginning then you can win games and build confidence. I think the key is just to get off to a good start.

It's frustrating when you make the efforts but the conditions are not there to make a great tournament.

It was hard growing up because there was nothing close. I never went to a golf tournament.

For me, losing is definitely not easy, but I think you just have to keep everything in perspective. Just remember that there's another tournament around the corner.

Joe Perry is always a big hurdle, he's always there in the later stages of a tournament. You have to be playing well to beat him, and if you do that you know you have a chance of winning the title.

But in 2002 I had a miscarriage, at 13 weeks. And funnily enough after that I had my best-ever tournament result, in January 2003.

When I was starting out, it was almost impossible for me to get visas to travel to tournaments.