Quotes About Adversity

The United States is not just an old cow that gives more milk the more it's kicked in the flanks.

I don't know what happened to the millennials. I think too much coddling is not a good thing.

Jim Miller is an important fight for me. It's just like any other fight, but it's important for me because Jim Miller was the first guy to defeat me.

I always imagined myself going up against Reggie Miller, Michael Jordan, guys like that, and I had to make the shot to win the game.

I made my first million by the time I was 31 and promptly lost it when I got divorced.

You can't push the envelope at 10,000 RPM and expect to come out smelling like a rose and feeling like a million bucks on the other side.

Money comes and goes. I may make a million dollars, then get a divorce and damn near lose all of it.

I used to play snooker in millionaires' mansions with marble floors and eat at the best places, but that's all over now.

Although it may seem callous to say so, millions of Americans are lucky that Magic Johnson was infected with H.I.V. There is no way of calculating how many lives he has saved. No advertising agency could have invented a better, or more effective, role model.

There were certain people who were out to get me. I know who those people were. They exist, believe me. They know that I know. They spent millions of dollars in order to try to get rid of me. I'm happy they lost most of their money.

Just because you are living the dream making millions of dollars doesn't mean you don't go through problems.

I've just kept going, like millions of people do every day, because life does not allow them to do anything else.

From where I come from, it's gutter, dog. I look back on that and I think, 'That's strong.' Without growing up where I came from, I wouldn't be the man I am today, a strong minded individual.

Life is just experience, whether it's good or bad, whatever you're doing you should learn from it if you've got the right kind of mindset.

I approach every match with that mindset, that this guy is trying to beat you, and it will change his life if he does.

Just knowing you can get into a cage and do that is part of how the mindset of a fighter can be applied to pretty much any situation really.

When I see somebody, I try to beat him on both ends of the floor. It's the game within the game that you've always got to win. That's always been my mindset. That's how I was taught how to play the game. That's how I learned. And that's what I enjoy.

Creative comedy is like growing geraniums in a mine field.

On the day when I was shot, all of my friends' faces were covered, except mine.

You're trying to improve every year. And you're trying to make improvements on what you learn about yourself, when you're successful or struggle. You try to minimize those stretches. And you realize what you do when you're successful, and you try and lengthen those.

I've been on successful teams pretty much my whole career, but even those two seasons I finished with Memphis and Minnesota, you learn just as much from adversity and losses as you do from success.

When you've already experienced great challenges in your career, it gives minor setbacks a different perspective.

I think about my dad and how tough he had it. They treated us a lot better in our minor league system, especially with the food. But the bus rides were no joke.

Minorities have been hustling backwards from check to check.