Quotes About Adversity

Growing up, I didn't have any role models that were sick that were doing anything with their life, ever.

I tell people that anything that could ever happen to you on stage has happened to me. My clothes have fallen off. I've fallen off the stage. I've gotten sick - anything.

A lot of racers have some of their best days when they're sick.

I kept my head; I mean, I've never been one of those people who ended up in the gutter with sick in my hair.

Being sick is the reason I went into comedy.

People want me to say that I'm sick of playing Leia and that it ruined my life. If my life was that easy to ruin, it deserved to be ruined.

I've played in Boston and New York, and it doesn't matter if you're sick, aching - once you step on that field, you're a completely different animal.

A lot of the things that happened to me came out of the blue, but I'm exactly the same person now as I was when I was sick. I'm still a very optimistic person.

This is the thing: I get motion sickness.

Everything being equal, no sickness or crashes, there's nobody who can beat Lance Armstrong at the Tour de France.

I love fighting. I don't know what it is in me, whether it's a sickness or a gene, but I just love standing in front of another fighter and going for it: they can hurt me, and I can hurt them.

When you look on the bright side, you're acknowledging that there is a dark side at which you are choosing not to gaze. If you think that the darkest hour is before the dawn, you accept that you are moving from darkness to light.

It's always been said that comedy comes mostly out of the dark side anyway.

I've been on both sides of the boos.

Let the people on both sides keep their self-possession, and just as other clouds have cleared away in due time, so will this, and this great nation shall continue to prosper as before.

I have three favorite politicians: Reagan, Truman, and Bobby Kennedy - Bobby for showing remarkable political courage despite being loathed by many on both sides.

When you are running for the presidency of the United States, you have to expect that you are going to have attacks by all sides.

There are two sides to being pigeonholed. There's, 'Oh, no, I'm going to be Chandler for the rest of my life,' but there's also the fact that getting to play Chandler opened up doors to me. It's now my job to find things that shake it up a little bit.

I grew up very poor in a fractured family that was dysfunctional on both sides, but I sort of put up these reflectors to most of the negative things that have occurred in my life. I don't carry around much baggage.

When you play constantly for strong sides, then the pressure is always on you.

There's good sides and bad sides to life and you're going to come up against obstacles. The only way you get through them is your passion level for the path that you choose.

My career got sidetracked after fighting Holmes.

I don't feel as if anything that has happened to me in my life was sidetracked because I was a woman.

I think there comes a time with a quarterback, especially when things go a little sideways, that players begin to try to do things a little uncharacteristic of what they've done in the past.