Quotes About Adversity

My grades started dropping, and when I sleep all day and come to the gym I'd have a slow day. I needed rules, I guess, in boxing and to just help me, period.

I've dealt with adversity before, had injuries before. I didn't let that slow me down. It just changed my attitude about the game.

I've been on the side of it where you have bad luck and slow cars.

The worst things that ever happened to me were before I was 20. It has been slow, hard-won improvement since then.

I learned from my dad that there may come a time in life when you need to slow down and take a breath and deal with things, and that's OK, but whatever you do... Don't stop, and don't quit. Even if it's hard, you can't be lazy.

Men are slower to recognize blessings than misfortunes.

In the U.A.E., the wickets are on the slower side. You can't play through the line; you need to take your time and be patient.

People wrote me off when I joined the industry, my looks were criticised, my acting was slammed, my films didn't do well. These things changed only slowly, and after a struggle.

I slowly became less famous and less successful. That was very difficult.

I will always be prepared for the ground. That's my home, that's where my success started. That's always going to be my biggest strength. But all fights start on the feet; I'm prepared to slug on the feet.

Presidents fall into second-term slumps for different reasons.

Every team goes through a slump during the season. It's just a matter of how fast can you get out of it.

Everyone in their career is going to go through a slump, but the thing is how you react to it. You're either going to talk about it or you're going to try to shoot your way out of it and I'm going to try to shoot my way out of it.

Slump, and the world slumps with you. Push, and you push alone.

Slumps don't bother me.

I have been in slumps before where I've never lost confidence in myself.

Sometimes, guys are in a slump, or you feel like you're not doing anything with the company, and I felt like that for years. But it can all change.

In a season, you're going to go through slumps.

That's part of the game. People go through slumps.

I've certainly had shooting slumps in the past. It's nothing new. You go through stretches like that.

Why 'Do Bronx'? Because I'm from the slums, those are my roots.

You see, I was born in the slums, that was before the ghetto. The ghetto was kind of refined; the slums was right there on the ground.

We went bankrupt. My parents got divorced. I was going to a super-rich kids school and suddenly we had to shift to Shivaji Nagar slums. So I have had the experience of both lives.

The combination of landing the biggest interview of my career and having a drill in my back reminds me that God only gives us what we can handle and that it helps to have a good sense of humor when we run smack into the absurdity of life.