Quotes About Adversity

The internet is not for sissies.

I don't want to be someone sitting in my rocking chair at the end saying, 'Well, I passed.' My mum used to say life isn't for sissies.

Movie-making ain't for sissies.

Show biz! It's definitely not for sissies.

When I was 4 years old, my brother and sister died of hunger, so I achieved my success through confidence, self-motivation and my hard work.

I was 22 when my mother died; my baby sister was 12. We had nothing. We had each other, but we had nothing.

At one time, when I was eight years old, my mother and father, my brother and my sisters - we had to move back in with my grandmother, and there were 13 of us living in one house.

Everyone had legs. Even my younger sisters both had legs. It was hard to comprehend what I did wrong: Why me? Then I found out about the Paralympics. It really did completely change my life.

The message I want to give my fans is, always have a way to pull yourself out of the dark place. Don't sit and cry about it. Have your moment, and then get over it.

You never want to be in a bases-loaded, no-outs position, but dammit, when you're there, you better enjoy it. You better not sit there and sulk about it. You better rise up and figure it out.

When you lose everything, and I mean everything, you sit there in this empty room in the dark, and the only person who can get you out is you.

I'd really like to show women my age - who've had children grow up or lost husbands or retired after working all their lives - that there are options. There are choices. We don't have to just sit around and be invisible.

We certainly had our share of failures early on and worked on a bunch of canceled sitcoms, which were very helpful in learning.

When you are doing a site that you understand is not making money, you kind of understand when times get challenging or there is a new economic climate, you will be scrutinized very closely.

The body can do amazing things in a situation when it is really called for.

Congress wasn't built for members like me. For those of us who have young children, which is a minority, there's definitely the built-in assumption of a two-parent model... There is no template for how to do this in my situation as a single mom.

Detroit was a bad situation for me.

The expectations and pressure doesn't mean you change. That's something that's always been instilled in me, and doesn't matter what the situation or what the game means, I'm always going to approach the game the same way.

In your life, you go through a difficult situation or a very good situation, and you have different moods, but you learn things from your experiences.

You don't often get a choice in who your enemies are, who you're friends with, what your situation is, and the environment you're placed in. You just have to make do with what you have.

The more opportunities you have in any setting, situation, you're going to be better off.

It's the same thing as a competitor with anything whether it be a play, an injury, a distraction. You just put it behind you, you take the situation for what it is and you control what you control and the people that do that the best are usually the more successful team, person, individual, what have you.

You can practice against each other, but there's something about a game situation.

I was fired from my television job, simple as that. Well, downsized, really, a classic 1990s situation.