Quotes About Adversity

I love a challenge. So when I did 'Friday,' I didn't want to do another comedy back-to-back. With 'Set It Off,' that was a little different from 'The Negotiator' and 'The Italian Job.' So for me, it's all about challenge. It's all about challenge and about just learning.

Italian teams are difficult to beat even if they play away.

Italians can not beat us, but we can certainly lose against them.

It's not just we Italians who are caught up in the difficulty.

We Italians need to feel like we're under pressure, we need to see an enemy.

It's always complicated to play against Italy.

Initially when I moved over to Italy it was really easy because I was living my dream. Everything was brand new. Then I began to get into the routine: training, school, home, home, school, training. That's all I did for 18 months. I had 20 euros to live on a week and I couldn't do anything else, because you can't with that amount of money.

In Ivory Coast it's very hard to have normal shoes, so just imagine football boots - they were considered a true luxury.

People have tried to keep me at bay with their jab, but once I put that pressure on, there is only so much you can do.

I feel like if I wasn't to go to jail, I probably wouldn't be the person I am - I wouldn't.

As horrible as jail was, there were some first-rate guys in there.

Taking the game away is probably the closest thing to jail that I'll get to.

I am not afraid to go to jail.

My parents got put into jail, both my mom and my dad.

If people want to see me as the bad boy because one of my friends has gone to jail, then that's what they're going to think, but they haven't a clue about my life and what I've had to deal with growing up and the things I've been around.

My friends, a lot of them have gone to jail, gone to the penitentiary, things of that matter.

People don't understand that where I come from, everyone is either a convict, been in jail, been in a gang, is a hooligan of some sorts, but those are my brothers, my family and the people that I travel with. Those are the people that I roll with.

Jail was probably the most exciting thing that's ever happened to me.

I had to go to jail, which was probably the most humbling thing I've ever had to deal with in my life.

I've lost a bunch of friends - some of them in jail, some of them made bad choices, some of them aren't where they should be.

I didn't know how to deal with real life issues the right way as a humble human being until I was humbled to the point of being put in a jail cell.

I've said many of my friends are in jail; some already died.

Going back to 2012, it was a bad year for me. I lost my dad as well, so burying him a week before I went to jail, just having all of that emotion, it just hit me hard.

I know friends who took what I call the easy way and some of them are now dead, or in jail, because they were involved in bad things.