Quotes About Adversity

At school, nobody thought I was smart and I became smart. Nobody wanted to be my friend and then I had lots of friends.

The more injuries you get, the smarter you get.

I think that's one of the things I've learned through my injuries is that I need to play smarter.

Coming out of college, I wasn't considered the fastest, the biggest or the smartest. There was no way around that.

I think I'm really powerful. They'll smash me, probably.

You want to get better even after people smash you down. You want to be better than you were before.

Rugby is a sport in which you can lose heavily one week and still come back and smash the opposition the next.

I've smashed myself around, been on crutches, and broken a couple of bones when I was a kid.

I come from a place where there's violence and inarticulacy. I worked in a pub from the age of 12 or 13. I used to see people smashing glasses over each other. I was never tough. I was scared of them.

I am just a young black man living my dream, people are trying to smear my reputation.

I've had a hard life. I smell and sense fear. I didn't get that from Catholic school; I know what fear is.

I got such a bad series of sinus infections while covering President Obama's 2012 reelection campaign, I lost my sense of smell!

Real men laugh at opposition; real men smile when enemies appear.

My natural reaction is to smile through things.

Just because a situation is grim doesn't mean you don't have every right to smile.

Life is a roller-coaster ride and come what may, one should embrace everything with a smile.

Even when times are tough, I learned to hide behind a smile.

I love to smile, even through pain.

Don't let people see when you're mad - just smile and laugh.

It scares you: all the noise, the rattling, the shaking. But the look on everybody's face when you're finished and packing, it's the best smile in the world; and there's nobody hurt, and the well's under control.

It's always something; it's never going to be something that's pleasing. People will always find something to say, and once you become comfortable with that, you can walk away and smile.

I don't know what other fighters do, but when I get hit and go down, I smile and I say, 'I'm going to hit you harder than you hit me, and I'm going to knock you out.' The times I go down and get back up - that's when I'm the most dangerous.

My worst day, I'm just going to try and smile.

God made me the way I am for a reason and I would never change that. I lead a normal life as much as possible and deal with the bumps in the road as they come along with my head held high and a smile on my face!