Quotes About Adversity

The Prescott fight made me change from a boy to a man: it took me out of my comfort zone because when you lose a fight, you look at the mistakes and everything. That is what happened. I've changed from a boy to a man.

I love pushing myself and I think being in a comfort zone perennially can restrict your growth.

It's in my blood to welcome all possible challenges. So something that makes me step out of my comfort zone is what I love doing.

People are so ready to cut you down if you take a risk and leave your comfort zone.

When you are pushed out of your comfort zone, that's when you realise you may have to learn a little bit more.

But if you look at a fight, it is anything but comfortable. So when you're fighting tough guys and you're not willing to go out of your comfort zone, you lose.

I've learned in my life that it's important to be able to step outside your comfort zone and be challenged with something you're not familiar or accustomed to. That challenge will allow you to see what you can do.

It's definitely good to play out of my comfort zone, especially in the Sydney Premier League which is one of the toughest leagues in the world.

I like extreme situations: people pushed out of their comfort zones; the civil veneer stripped off.

People have to be pushed out of their comfort zones to be able to see things for what they are.

Professionally, I made my first film at 20 in a war zone in Kosovo.

We have to start encouraging people to step out of their comfort zones and start doing new things. Anything anybody does new, there are a bunch of naysayers.

Whenever we have penalties and take a 10-yard penalty down the red zone, it gets tough.

I fell into a safety zone where I didn't want to risk losing my fighting life with the UFC, so I wanted to go the safe route instead of taking risk and being the fighter I've always been.

But every time the crowd boo me I try to turn that negative into a positive and seem to have done that better. Sometimes it drives me to play better and concentrate more when theyre booing. Sometimes when theyre not on my back, I cant get in the zone.

When I was younger, I had such awful, poisonous things written about me: male critics likening me to unattractive animals, and suggesting I should be in a zoo.

Nick spent his first years on walks in his stroller and Snugli, playing in Berkeley parks and baby gyms and visiting zoos and aquariums. His mother and I divorced when he was 4. No child benefits from the bitterness and savagery of a divorce like ours.

The only way round is through.

Acceptance is not submission; it is acknowledgement of the facts of a situation. Then deciding what you're going to do about it.

Misfortune comes to all men.

The real world is not easy to live in. It is rough; it is slippery. Without the most clear-eyed adjustments we fall and get crushed.

Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.

A wise man never refuses anything to necessity.