Quotes About Adversity

I signed schoolboy forms for Watford when I was 12, but then my parents got divorced, and I never kicked a ball for three years. I rebelled, I left home, but getting back into football sorted me out. It was the second chance I needed.

He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported with the later.

I like stories about people who have to go into darkness for a good reason and then have to figure out how to deal with the darkness that seeps into their souls.

'I'm Broken' was a sound check riff.

This is going to sound shocking, but being born with two club feet was quite a good beginning. If you pull through that, you're very unsentimental. My earliest memories are of really agonising pain.

If anything's going to go wrong, it'd go wrong during 'Peter Pan,' not 'The Sound of Music.'

Finally there was a moment when it just hit me. John wouldn't want me to sit on my butt for the rest of my life feeling sorry for myself or sorry for him. As cheesy as it sounds, he would have wanted us to go on.

I do think - as self-serving as it sounds - that I was the right person, given the very, very strong headwind we had from the economy and our own issues, to come back and rewrite the future of the company.

It's interesting when you talk to someone who has really been through something very, very terrible. They are less likely to talk about it. People who have had a bad day because their soup was cold can talk about their 'suffering' all day long.

It's always in the second administration when things start to go sour. They circle the wagons.

I've always found poverty a source of strength.

If you took ISIS' oil, that would not stop them. It's not their only source of revenue. It would be a setback, but it would not stop them.

South African cricket, we're pretty resilient.

And I'm part of the generation of South Africans who feel we're lucky to be alive.

Leaving South Africa was very difficult.

I grew up in South Africa, but like many people at that time, I couldn't bear living in the country. The main motivation for moving to Britain was to get away.

I don't mind snakes. Growing up in South Africa there were a couple a snakes around... and I'm not talking just about the government!

Living in South Africa has had a very profound impact on my career.

It's pretty rough in South Africa. It's a rough culture. Imagine rough - well, it's rougher than that.

Nobody thought a white girl should learn to cook in South Africa. I went to drama school. My mother was an actress, so I thought I'd be an actress.

I was held up at gunpoint a month after I won Miss South Africa.

The tour of South Africa is a tough one and if you start thinking like this before it then it is not helpful for anyone.

We have to be mentally strong to prepare to face a team like South Africa in their own backyard.

I learnt in South America and in Africa that people who have really big problems in the ghetto always keep a sense of humour and remain positive. If not, you go down.