Quotes About Adversity

I wanted my faith to look the same to everyone else and to be the same for me regardless of what was going on - whether I was on the Super Bowl podium holding the trophy or when I was being benched two years later and people saying that I would never play again.

When I used to fight in the amateurs, guys wouldn't show up for the finals and I won the tournament. They wouldn't call my name when it was time to get the trophy. They called everyone else's name. Believe me, you remember things like that. I'd say there was disrespect there. It's followed me into the pros.

In order to do 'Amores Perros,' I had to skip some time at drama school, so the director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu came up with a great Latin American solution, which was to say I had a tropical disease and had to stay in Mexico for a while. Everyone believed me.

When trouble comes, focus on God's ability to care for you.

Life is funny. If you don't laugh, you're in trouble.

Basically, if you go looking for trouble, it'll come find you.

Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.

Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.

I'm not sure that I want to be without some lack of confidence. If you are too sure of yourself, you don't grow. You may feel confident in some things, but other fields come up as a challenge. And if you don't anticipate trouble, you will be in trouble.

Trouble is only an opportunity in work clothes.

Never meet trouble half-way.

Life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to unfasten your belt and look for a fight.

Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.

A friend got attacked outside a nightclub just for being deaf. I stuck up for him but ended up getting in a bit of a trouble myself. I played with a tag at Stocksbridge. I had a little curfew. Luckily, it didn't stop me playing football. Being put on a tag, I could have lost playing football again.

Progress often masquerades as trouble.

I don't care what you have done before or what you are capable of: if you come up against a guy like me, you are in trouble.

If you don't have trouble paying the rent, you have trouble doing something else; one needs just a certain amount of trouble.

Don't believe everything you read in the press. If somebody starts with me, I try to mess them up, but I don't look for trouble.

I was never a big guy in pubs. I was never the main kind of aggressor or anything like that, but I found myself in trouble because I always had a mouth that would come back with something, and there was just never anyone who could make me be quiet.

The way out of trouble is never as simple as the way in.

I experienced bullying a lot. I was an only child, and I was kind of a small kid with a big mouth, and so I always got myself in trouble.

My films do have characters who have trouble escaping the world around them.

I grew up in a house that had a whole lot of trouble. As much trouble as you could imagine.

Just because I get in trouble or into a situation outside of boxing, don't let that make your statement on my boxing.