Quotes About Adversity

Like everyone else, I've had moments when I've felt that I've been losing my grip.

Even in your darkest moments, you'll think of something that'll crack you up.

It's curious how we act in moments of personal despair.

The American story is a story of great moments and dreadful moments.

Ay - 'The Green Fool' business, the libel action over the head of it - did me a lot of damage. It destroyed the momentum.

It's not just about women's cricket, but everywhere, every athlete's momentum has been broken because of Covid-19.

I never got with Dre for money because he didn't have a driver's license, a car or insurance... or a house. We lived with his Auntie, who I ended up calling mommy.

It's almost like the Monday Night Wars for me all over again. That's the kind of feeling I get with Reality of Wrestling.

For a while, the world for me was like a set of monkey bars. I swung from one place to the next, sometimes backward, sometimes forward, capitalizing on my own momentum, knowing that at some point my arms... would give out, and I'd fall to the ground.

I was a monster, a problem child.

Matt Brown did exactly what he said he was going to do. He kicked my butt. But it was a war. I would love to do it again. Matt Brown's a good dude and a great fighter. He's made it up to the top and man, he's a monster.

If you battle monsters, you don't always become a monster. But you aren't entirely human anymore, either.

We have nothing to fear but fear itself - and monsters.

Once you come to America, you're fighting top fighters. They're not going to let you get away with the guys you're fighting in England: you're going to have to fight constant monsters.

You give a team a month - three weeks - to get together, and you're going to make mistakes. You're just not going to be as sharp.

When you're 22, 23, living in New York, you're just scrambling to live on people's couches and in rooms that you're sure you're not supposed to be in. You're not on the lease; you're paying weird amounts of money every month trying to make it happen.

Every single one of us has a few months here or there that feel like dark months.

When I get in a bad mood about anything, I realize, 'Hey, I'm still working. It could always be a lot worse.'

I accept that it is not always moonshine and roses, and you can't expect things must always go your way.

It is difficult to play a team with great morale and passion.

The more desperate you are, the more mistakes you make.

Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult.

The writer's shortness of breath became more and more distressing as he rose.

I'm sure there are many more people who can identify with failure and hardship in life than with the success of an Alexander Hamilton or a John D. Rockefeller.