Quotes About Adversity

It's hard to put your shoulders back and say, 'right lads, let's win this game,' when we're not actually winning anything.

My father was a trader and my mum was a teacher but she was laid to rest when I was 14, which was really hard for all of us.

Like so many families, we were dealing with limited means. We weren't poor at all, but we had some challenging times financially. When my stepdad got laid off... we were really trying to find our footing for a couple of years.

If you've been laid off, you know how it goes: Everything you thought you knew and liked about yourself gets called into question.

In my two and a half years with the Lakers, I didn't win much games.

I got joked on. You had people saying I was stupid, that I was lame, that I was feminine, this and that. I was like, 'OK, but I'm still gonna be successful, and you're not.'

It's not until after you've been hit by a car and landed all right that the fear kicks in.

While most kids turned their heads in disgust as a plateful of broccoli landed before them, I ate what I was given. My mum would harp on about how 'life is not a cafe' - I still hear that mantra in my sleep.

Lands of great discoveries are also lands of great injustices.

As a woman, and as a working mom trying to get things done, you find yourself meeting adversity a lot, but you never talk about it because you don't want to bring attention to it. You don't want to go there.

I've had meetings where there were literally, like, 12 angry men in a room and me. And even when everyone shot me down, I somehow dug in one more time.

If I were immersed in constant melancholy, I would not be who I am.

I've just seen it all - I've seen the bird flu, I've seen the Asian economic meltdown, SARS, 9/11, economic cycles.

It's more interesting for me as an audience member to see a movie about a loser.

I was told that my best-case scenario would likely consist of writing my memoir and then disappearing.

After my marriage ended - a hundred years ago - I had a few memorable Christmases on my own: what doesn't kill you makes you stronger.

You've got to embrace whatever is given and make the most of every opportunity to make it funny or to make it memorable.

I don't really have childhood-type memories. I had to grow up very young.

Other than my memory being a bit woolly and my knees being a bit creaky, I don't really think there's anything I can't do.

By indignities men come to dignities.

They really do a disservice because these men and women came out of the Depression, they came out of the war.

You can't learn mental fortitude in a book. Those things are earned, not learned.

I don't believe you have to have eating disorders and mental illness to screw up.

I had my job, which I loved to do, which I was really good at. I was at the top of my career, and I had it all taken away because of a mental illness.