Quotes About Adversity

The idea is that if we can put our own people through something almost as bad as what they might have to go through if they were taken captive, they will inoculate themselves.

You go through different emotions when you're in captivity. On the one hand you say, my career is over. On the other hand, you say, my career's just started. See with these weird extreme ideas of where you are based on this capture.

I know what it is to feel like you've gotten into a 60-mile-an-hour car accident after a fight. It's pretty rough. It's why we are where we are. We get paid to fight the best in the world and that's something you know going in is part of it.

My first playpen was a cardboard box.

For many impoverished people, living under a tarp or in a cardboard box is a way of life.

I've never cared who I fight. And that's something I just say - 'I'll fight anyone' - it's something I've lived up to my whole career. And I'm proud of that.

Everyone has bad matches or bad segments into their careers, if you get through it, you know there is going to be another segment another day.

One thing we've had to do in our careers, which is hard, is to put on a brave face.

The road can be hard on a kid if he's not careful.

We don't live in a world that nurtures and cares for Black girls like me. And if the world doesn't care about a Black girl like me, then what will happen to our Black babies who grow up to become Black children and Black adults?

I don't have an endgame. My game is to take on any bad guys I see out there. And do the best I can until they put me under the carpet.

I've been in football a long time and one thing you don't do is when things are going well, you don't get carried away. And when they don't, you stay positive.

I got bullied so much at 11 and 12 that I became the bully. I didn't want to get bullied no more. And that just carried on through my life.

Writing in certain environments carries with it an occupational risk.

As an athlete, the body can fail you. I know. The mind and your education will be there to keep carrying you.

Being called a huckster and a charlatan started several years ago, so that's something I'm accustomed to. In most cases, it doesn't bother me.

In football there for a long time, I knew even if it was a bad day, a bad day at the office, it was still going to be really good in most cases.

History devours, but at times it resurrects. Some lives must wait for history to catch up.

I always felt that I was, you know, smart. I just didn't have a lot of the resources that everybody else had... It was tough for me to catch up.

Whenever you don't catch a ball in a game, you really find out who loves you and who doesn't.

I took a couple footballs to the face before I learned to catch.

I was born on TV, meaning that's where I caught my break. So that's where I always have to be smart and revisit that medium as much as I can.

My life out of the ring caught up with me.

I just think you can't get caught up with who's on the other side. Everybody in the NFL is good. Every team is good.