Quotes About Adversity

Twice I let people talk me out of good ideas.

I have broken my collarbone twice in a year.

Meru was the most challenging climb of my life. Not once but twice.

I had been imprisoned three times and had twice been incarcerated in a madhouse.

I've been jailed once, put in police lock-up twice, and was under house arrest twice.

I've lost 'Drag Race' twice. I know how, with one bad day, it could just end.

I remember a kid throwing an orange at the back of my head in Spanish class and calling me four-eyes, and I remember saying, I said, 'That's true, and I have two more eyes than you.' I felt like it was better. If I have four eyes, I'm twice as good as you.

As a white fighter, you get twice as much criticism.

Boxing changed my life twice.

If Kurt Angle's leg fell off, he'd hop twice as fast to make up for the loss of mobility, man. There's no quit in him.

I had to move away from home at 14 and live in a club house in Romford for three years, only seeing my mum and dad twice a week.

Fifteen years ago, I suffered a stroke, which caused me to lose my speech. Now, what does an actor who can't talk do? Wait for silent pictures to come back? I work with a speech therapist twice a week.

Well, listen, you know, the Czech saying is, you know, when you are drowning you are grabbing even a little twig. That's what all Czechs were doing, grabbing for... with the hope for this little twig.

When things are not going the way you want them to go, you start to press.

Boy, it's a tough planet if you want it to be. But a great planet if you let it.

The cholerick man never wants woe.

Everyone is born into a certain era. I wouldn't want to see anyone faced with the circumstances that prevailed at the time, when there were few or no alternatives.

People can say whatever they want to about me... and I don't get too affected. But I didn't want them to think I was a failure.

Political and social change is always a stagger-step process. One step forward, two steps back. They want you to give up.

The unhappy never want enemies.

There is a good and a bad light in which every thing that befalls us may be taken. If the human mind will busy itself to make theworst of every disagreeable occurrence, it will never want woe.

Let's play it safe. I'm not in the mood to run right now and I know fighting is suicide. Last thing I want to do is make my enemies happy by dying. (Syn)

Ive been taught very early on that if you want to win a tournament youve got to beat anybody, and hopefully I play well and enjoy it.

The Chinese are like a tank through a corn field, they just keep mowing through it. Senators want sanctions against countries supporting cyberattacks.