Quotes About Adversity

Only guys who fight for a living know what it's like to be hungry and beaten and tired, mentally, all the time. The average person has no understanding of what that is and what that could be.

I would audition for 50-60 ads in a month and would get nothing. It affected me not just mentally but also physically. I put on 14 KGs in those two years.

I got really strong living in the States, because I wasn't mentally really strong and I wasn't really like the fighter when I was little.

We're so trained to be 'mentally tough,' in sports.

People are always going to be negative when they mention my name, but I can accept that and that's what makes it easier for me to go on.

As good as that first year in Ring of Honor was, the second year was really, really bad for me. In retrospect, it was great for me, but at the time, it was a tough situation to be in. I didn't have anyone around to mentor me where I needed to be.

I was raised by the state of California, and then various families and mentors.

Some mentors are more challenging than others.

Let's be honest: the implementation of the United and Continental merger has been rocky for customers and employees.

I was a pretty scrappy, tough kid; I got in all sorts of fights at school. I defended myself - boys didn't mess with me. But as one of seven children, you have to fight for everything anyway.

I was in a terrible mess in my childhood.

I don't blame Le Havre. Back then, I wasn't an easy person to handle. I was always one of the first to mess around. So there were a lot of reasons why my adventure stopped at that point.

Mess up and draft somebody at my position, because you are going to sit around and watch him sit the bench. That's always been my mentality. I see it as a challenge.

When you mess up, what are you going to do? Just keep going. And speak loudly.

There will be times when I mess up. I'm human, but I want to be a role model for the good things I do and the bad things I do. And the times I do make mistakes, learn from those mistakes.

You need to stay hungry and not allow someone like John Ruiz to come over and mess you up in front of all your fans.

My career, it's been a mess.

I learned as a fighter I know how to go out there and mess somebody.

One thing people don't realize is coaches, we pick up our families. We rip them out of their homes. We rip them out of the places that they are. Sometimes you do that until you get to a point where you find happy. You shouldn't mess with happy.

When I was declared bankrupt it felt like I was in a financial mess I would never get out of.

Even after I retired I'd get messages about my injury and certain things, and you almost think it's another message and I'll just ignore it, but these things shouldn't be acceptable. They aren't acceptable but they just seem to be ok to happen.

In the past, we might have lost a game, and you get fans messaging you, saying, 'Ah, don't worry, you've done so well,' and it can be a bit patronising, do you know what I mean?

I've messed myself up more playing music than when I played football.

When I was born, they put casts on my legs 'cause I had some kind of dysplasia or something. My legs were all messed up.