Quotes About Adversity

Journalists, especially English journalists, were very cruel to me. They said I only knew three chords when I knew five!

I think of journalists as being bullet-proof in a way.

I had to face a lot coming through this journey, a lot of sacrifices, difficulties, challenges, and injuries.

I've always been more interested in what happens after the bad thing has happened - the fallout of the bad thing, when people are already damaged. I'm less interested in seeing people when they're fine and following their journey to becoming damaged.

What's a hero if not for its journey.

If anyone has to leave their homeland by boat, they all have difficult stories. But my parents had a difficult journey, and their story always seems like a movie to me.

I'm attracted to playing things that I find difficult, just because it's a journey that is much more interesting.

The journey from employee to entrepreneur was a complex and taxing one for an immigrant like me.

I'm attracted to the journeys of isolated characters.

Most people's journeys haven't been as disjointed as mine.

I came from a place where there wasn't a lot of joy.

You can't let somebody else kind of take your joy away from you.

My childhood was happy, joyful but very difficult.

I feel like, looking back, if I didn't have so many injuries, who knows where my numbers could be right now. But only God can judge me.

We've got to be judged by how we do in times of crisis.

I know first-hand what it's like to be judged and to have someone criticise your creativity, your hard work and your art.

There's some guys where I'm like, 'I won that fight and only lost because of the judges,' or I got cheated or whatever. I know I'm a better fighter.

In this business, you can be at the top of the world and at the bottom of the barrel, and you're grape juice. I've been at both ends. It can make you become what you really are.

Sometimes, you fall into a ditch without knowing it is there, without seeing it, but you try to come out of it. If you fall again, you will jump out again.

You jump on a bike and start peddling. You fall down and you get up again. I've always been a 'learn by doing' kind of guy.

It's tough to run fast and jump off roofs when your feet are freezing off!

LeBron's probably the best player in the world, so you just have to make it tough for him, make him take tough jump shots and things like that.

Fans jump on your bandwagon and desert you when you hit the harder times.

It's hard enough doing something bold without jumping into your bad reviews.