Quotes About Adversity

I had some physical problems with my back that caused me just some really bad problems.

I love it when the people celebrate when they beat you.

You're going to find out who your friends are. Anything that happens in your life is one of those challenges. It may not be at the level of celebrity, but everybody's going to travel that road.

I had nothing in my cell. Most of the time I recited the Quran. The rest of the time I was speaking to myself and thinking about my life and the worst-case scenarios that could happen to me.

I've been through a lot, and England has been my salvation. One million per cent.

Money came in left, right and centre; you just thought that's how it was for everyone and that's how it will always be.

I started wrestling in Coventry in a run-down community centre just on mats, we didn't even have a ring.

Any team can have a bad century.

We all struggle in life at a certain point.

Once you reach a certain point in your career, every fight is a new big fight, biggest fight of your life, biggest fight of your career.

At a certain point, you get banged up a lot.

Anything can happen in life, but you have to be a man and sometimes say certain things.

There are certain things that bother me and certain things that don't. Personal attacks on me? I think I'm just so used to it.

Well, I grew up in a certain way, through the experiences that I had, so I don't know how I would have turned out had things been different.

If you are a junkyard dog, you assume that that's what life is: chained up, barking all day.

Failure's a marker of success in its own right because you went out and tried something... If you really don't want to fail, go find a comfortable chair and stay there. Just don't go out and do anything.

When my doctors said I would never walk, I didn't believe them. I knew I wasn't meant to spend my life in a chair.

I have always liked a challenge.

You need to beat the best, and it's a great challenge, and I like that.

I've always loved a challenge.

I've never been one to run from a challenge.

Life's a challenge, but that's the best part.

It's amazing: when you are challenged with less, sometimes you can produce more.

We're not going to go 82-0 and blow everybody out. We are going to be challenged.