Quotes About Adversity

Even going back to the haters, it's messed up what they say, but that's made me stronger, and it's built me into who I am today, and I am completely fine with that.

Messi gets kicked by everybody, and he gets up and carries on. Doesn't scream, doesn't fake injury.

As a goalkeeper, it is a challenge to face Messi.

Messi is a great player. Playing against him is not good - it is bad.

I've played against Messi a lot of times, and I've already conceded goals through my legs with him.

Not everyone is Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo. Even Cristiano Ronaldo's first years at Manchester United were quite difficult.

I can honestly tell you that playing against Messi is very difficult.

In life, if you're not learning from every experience, even the bad ones, you're really messing up. That's the marker of a smart, intelligent individual.

My mom tried to get me on ballet. 'Walter Payton did it! Walter Payton did it!' I'm just not messing with ballet.

The majority of the world - including myself - we all have problems and difficulty in life, and life's messy. But there are great rewards in life, too.

At the time me and X met, we weren't homeless, but we were basically homeless.

Almost every woman I've met has encountered bullying.

I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.

Boxing is a metaphor for hitting back and showing you can win in life.

'Hedwig' is not autobiographical, but what she goes through is clearly a big metaphor. She doesn't want to be what she is, but she comes to an understanding that what happened to her has actually made her whole.

I could always talk about being a Latino and having a Mexican mom and a Honduran dad and being from Honduras. That was always an easy go-to place. But on the other hand, it was a crutch.

In Mexico, you need to be a bulldog to make a movie because everything is set up for you to go back home and get depressed and not do the movie.

Losing Michael Jackson is a handicap. It's the Lakers trying to win a championship without Kobe Bryant.

Michelle Obama, one of my inspirations, said 'when they go low, we go high,' and it was a thing that I really carried with me.

'Fortitude' is like the world in microcosm. It's like watching America or Russia, only you're isolated. Once you're inside, you can't escape.

I grew up with Microsoft. I know the leadership of Microsoft.

Microsoft is a much bigger company than Qualcomm - a much bigger company - and there were a few days where I thought, 'I don't know if I can do this. It's huge.' My job was to come into the company and grow new businesses, and I thought, 'I'm not sure,' but it's all worked out pretty well.

When I was 7, I started playing with a club. The only grass on the field was in the corner. There was no grass in the middle! It was just sand.

My life has always been - there's never been a middle. Either I had or I didn't. Either I was up or I was down.