Quotes About Adversity

Be soft, even if you stand to get squashed.

If you're soft and fuzzy, like our little characters, you become the skinny kid on the beach, and people in this business don't mind kicking sand in your face.

I think every soft child in the world gets damaged. All of of us come into the world and get damaged. It's just a matter of how much.

I play Sophie in 'Koode': a very strong and soft woman who has been through many atrocities yet holds herself together through conviction in herself.

Sometimes footballers, we get soft a little bit.

I was picked on as a kid. I had a nose the size of a softball plus braces and acne. It was rough.

After giving up softball, I didn't know what I was going to do. I thought I would try bobsled, but I wasn't really sure what would happen. I thought my athletic career was over.

When I was trying to write a novel, I ran out of money, and I was delivering packages on a bicycle. And I finally connected with these guys who started a software company, and almost serendipitously fell into that. I felt like they were goofy guys and that I was a goofy guy.

A people that has experienced all that the Germans have been through, naturally offers fertile soil for the extremists.

I was forced to leave my hometown, and Napoli sold me to Juventus.

I made a record in 1996 called 'Animal Rights' that was a very difficult, very dark punk-rock record. Of all the records I've made, it's my favorite one. It's also the one that got the worst reviews and sold the worst.

Guys like Todd Bridges never overcame being a child star. You can't have any big failures. I've always felt regular. I played organized ball at the rec league. At 13, they told me I sold 3 million copies. I didn't know what that meant.

In 1995, I sold the rights to Harry Bosch to Paramount. They had several screenplays written, but a movie never happened. Harry Bosch went on the shelf, and I had to wait 15 years to get him back.

When I was being sold into marriage, it was hard to see a future for myself.

My mum was sold for $65 and I was sold for $260 - at the age of 13.

I come from the slums; I come from a hard background; I come from a poor family; and I was a soldier.

The scene was not a happy one yet we looked upon it in the cold stoical spirit of a soldier; a slight chilling pang and then a return soul and body to the enemy before us.

When I was a lone soldier I didn't have a penny with me. Everybody was eating hummus with tehina and ate falafel, and I couldn't buy it. I was a little hungry, but I managed.

I shot down some German planes and I got shot down myself, crashing in a burst of flames and crawling out, getting rescued by brave soldiers.

I've learned our soldiers are so much like everybody else. They're just put into an extreme situation.

Considering Messi's quality and everything he represents, I don't think I've seen him playing with a guy following him around the pitch the entire time with the sole purpose of not letting him play.

I have solid decent people around me, and I believe that is all it is, because you will get destroyed if you have people bringing you down.

I was so deep in red ink coming out of ECW that I had to make a good solid living just to get my nose above the water line because of ECW.

They put me in solitary confinement, and although I went on to do 8,755 days of solitary in total, the first two were the hardest. I almost went mad, beating my head against the wall.