Quotes About Adversity

Coming from the projects, we used to sneak into the United Center, watch some games; they chased us out and everything.

Everybody's going to play in tough-weather games - snow, rain, sleet - but you've got to hold onto the football.

I don't know if you've ever tried to run through waist-deep snow, but it's next to impossible.

We hid from the Nazis in the mountains. Sometimes there was nothing to eat but snow.

You get a good win, you take extra confidence into the next game and it shows in the result. You end up with a snowball effect. You are in a rhythm where everything is going well. But, if you start losing games, one thing can lead to another in a bad way and, if you begin to believe nothing is going for you, it can be dangerous.

Mistakes can happen. Sometimes they can build up over the course of an innings and put people even more on edge, which makes it snowball further.

I didn't even think about snowboarding until after my accident.

No matter what era you're looking at - war affects things in so many different ways.

I think we have challenges, but we have so many opportunities to get it right. I like it when we have a little bit of a headwind. The kite actually lifts when you have a headwind and doesn't when there is lift from the back.

There have been so many people that have come up and embraced me as an example of what it's like to face something tough and just get up the next day and keep pushing.

God, I mean I had so many people tell me, 'What you're doing doesn't work.' I used to have to get on stage and apologize for talking the way that I speak.

There's always going to be someone out there who doesn't like what you do, doesn't like your style, your face. That's part of life. But I feed off that. I don't think I'd be where I am today if it wasn't for that. It puts a little fire in the belly, keeps me going so I can prove so many people wrong.

I know so many people that were really able to lead 'perfect' lives. They meet the right person, they make the babies, they get the jobs, they get the house and it's essentially a smooth ride. That really didn't happen for me.

I still remember 2002. It's a very hard time for Hong Kong industry, no movies in Hong Kong, and also at this moment I start my new company, so many people said, 'You're crazy.'

In my business, you should be very strong in mind. You have to be sure about yourself and about your work and your career, and you have to be strong inside because so many people come around and try to say bad things about you.

I know so many people who've been through situations where they've gone from one career to another and have had such a tough time because they didn't have any support doing it.

I've been called so many names and been written off by so many people who just say, 'Whatever happened to this guy?'

I literally crossed through the middle of the Gobi Desert to be free. But what I did was nothing, so many people fought harder than me and didn't make it.

My five years in Arizona were so much fun because we were winning and I knew how to enjoy it because I knew the other side of it.

I spent so much time fighting that I didn't take the time to reflect on what I was actually going through.

I spent so much time in the closet in the Marine Corps and I wasn't going to hide who I was. If it meant I was going to lose out on opportunities, they weren't meant to be.

It came to him in the night sometimes with a sudden appalling shock that the boys he was fighting were boys he had grown up with. The war had come as a nightmare in which you chose your nightmare side. Once chosen, you put your head down and went on to win.

You two are more fucked up than a one-legged cat trying to bury shit in a frozen pond.

And he knew that if you could not adapt and overcome, then you were totally hosed. Because conditions were always going to change on you. These days, probably for the worse.