Quotes About Adversity

Trouble was almost inevitable. I grew up with so many at-risk kids. Kids had things go wrong.

If I allow the fact that I am a Negro to checkmate my will to do, now, I will inevitably form the habit of being defeated.

'How I Built This With Guy Raz' asks entrepreneurs to tell the story of how they made their name and, in some cases, their fortune. Whether they're in the business of selling burritos or dating apps, there's inevitably something you can learn from their stories.

My biggest satisfaction was to learn, inexperienced as I was, that it is possible to find ways out of the deepest difficulties.

The more challenges you face in life, the more of life you experience - this lived experience gives one the 'influence' to impact others' lives.

My father and one of my grandfathers died very early, and female figures have been an influential part of my life.

When most people hit failure, they give up, but good entrepreneurs simply treat failure as a learning experience and use it to fuel and inform their next move.

Being a doctor, lawyer in war-torn countries isn't easy when the infrastructure isn't there. The money, the food and education is not always accessible to achieve those dreams.

Growing up homeless many times, it's always ingrained in me this fear that maybe I won't have a roof over my head or maybe things are going to be taken away from me.

There was a point where I was just saying to myself, breathe. Inhale, because I felt really heavy - I felt like those cartoons when they experience G and your face is just sagging down.

Failure is inherent in the game. So if you don't respond well to adversity, you're probably not going to have a long career.

We all understand there's an inherent risk when you step on the field in football.

My reading of history is that we continually inherit trouble.

False stories used to affect me initially. But now, I've come to understand that if false stories are created, they are also forgotten in the long run.

Initially it was a journey about one girl who wanted to go to the Paralympics but over the two years it has become something I was doing for everyone else. The reason I wanted to do it so badly was so I could stand here and show it can be done even if you have setbacks.

There's a difference between playing hurt and playing injured.

Most of the players can get injured, small ones and big ones. But when you get the small ones, you have to fight against them and play, play, play.

Before I got injured, football was very easy, I didn't have to work out.

I fought Swanson when I was injured and I shouldn't have but I wanted to.

There's a difference between being injured and being hurt.

People ask me why I keep getting injured but I have just had to accept it is one of those things that happen.

At Benfica, I started playing because the starting goalkeeper got injured.

I was injured many times, but life is like this, and I have to accept this.

When we began filming, these people had legs, but as we were filming, they had been injured and they were brought to the hospital to have their legs amputated, and that's where we found them and asked them to come and be part of the film.