Quotes About Adversity

I understand being second-guessed and stuff when an injury happens - certainly I understand that - but that's football.

I don't want there to be a time where I'm 'too old' to box on, or where an injury retires me in or out of the ring.

If you get a career-threatening injury your career is done and you need something to fall back on. But if it wasn't for football I would have played rugby, if it wasn't rugby it would have been basketball and I would have just gone through all the sports.

I made it to the NFL and I had an injury, a really bad injury, actually, where I was out for 18 months in football. And the doctor said it was career-ending.

I feel I have experienced pretty much everything I can in football, winning, losing, the injury side and all the set-backs.

Anytime an athlete deals with an injury, it forces you to revaluate and refocus.

The initial thought is like, 'Damn. Most guys used to retire after the Achilles injury.' Nobody really but Dominique Wilkins has come back to be the same person as he used to be or better; but now, more and more guys come back and they're healthy.

I know what it's like to be excited for a big game. I know what it's like to be heartbroken after losing to a rival. I know what it's like to lose a key player to injury.

I had obviously a freak injury right when I got there and there's a lot of things that were kind of out of my control when I was in Boston.

I wasn't feeling well when I fought Joanna. I couldn't train the last few weeks because of a shoulder injury. I couldn't hold Joanna down.

Nothing is certain in a sportsperson's life. There can be an injury, performance can go down, others can do better than me.

I've seen how quickly a season can be over from injury.

I've been through things in life that are way worse than a foot injury.

I mean, when you grow up in the inner city and you grow up in a single-parent household, that's - those are humbling times, you know?

I could have ended up a casualty of a broken family, like so many of the kids around me in inner city Baltimore. But my life was forever changed the year I turned 10. That was the year my dad turned to Jesus.

I've always said, in India and England especially, but all around the world, it's hard to start your innings against good attacks.

I feel I lost my innocence to cancer.

I saw that there are people who will connive against innovation. They're hostile to it. And that has shaped my behavior ever since.

It is the essence of innovation to fail most of the time.

Having no choice doesn't result in innovation and performance improvement.

I've had no money, I've had a lot of money, I've lost a lot of money. I've been back and forth with everything. That's why other people's input doesn't really matter to me, because nobody's put me where I'm at.

I never thought I'd ever get stabbed in my life. The fact that it happened twice within, like, a two-month period is pretty insane.

I didn't have a choice growing up but to be more insecure because others had more.

As soon as someone finds out something you're insecure about or that bothers you, they will use that against you, which is awful.