Quotes About Adversity

The thing is, against guys like GSP or Anderson Silva, many guys are beaten before they step into the cage.

When you're used to fighting in a cage, nothing scares you.

Life ain't a piece of cake for me.

I think my big break was getting out of Richmond, California, alive.

The ability to manage your emotions and remain calm under pressure has a direct link to your performance.

One day you are up, the next down, and I have to remain calm, work, help, and learn; that is the most important.

I think not getting into Cambridge was possibly the best thing that could have happened to me.

I've had times where I didn't play or came off the bench.

You have two choices: You can take what you're given or build with what you've got. I choose to build with what I've got and try to make the best of it because I've still been given a stage. I've still got cameras in front of my face when I want them, and I plan to run with it.

We were basically camping my whole childhood because we were so poor.

I've been through nine camps, and they're all a little bit different, but at the end of the day, it's just football.

When I have basketball camps and I tell kids my story, they're like, 'You played in Maine? In Israel? You did this and that?' I experienced a lot, and I feel like it made me not only the person I am today, but the basketball player I am.

You know, Twitter, they tried to cancel me. Facebook has tried to cancel me.

When 'MADtv' got cancelled, I didn't work at all - for three years.

Cancer softened me up. I like the old me better. I liked being angry. It made me feel strong.

Having cancer empowered me to take more risks. I knew beating cancer was going to shape me, but it wasn't going to be all of me.

My cancer continues to make for all kind of hilarity.

In a sense, having cancer takes you by the shoulders and shakes you.

I had a lump on my face and had a big cancer thing removed.

Eventually cancer becomes just another annoying thing that you deal with, you know, like cellulite.

It might be hard to believe, but as difficult as cancer was, in some ways it was good for me.

As a guy that had been told to drop out many times as I was coming up, I don't think you should tell any candidate about what they should do and what decisions they should make.

I'm not mad at anybody for that, but when I lost my deal at Capitol, things got rough.

As captain of India, the world was at my feet and then I did not find myself in the team. Not many captains would find themselves in that position.