Quotes About Adversity

The more people that write me off, the stronger I get. That's my feeling.

The more people that write me off, the stronger I get.

In 1994 I was doing a two-hander with Sean Lock in Edinburgh and there were more people in the cast than the audience. It was pretty grim, quite a chastening experience.

The more successful you become the more people want to put you down. I've always been very clear on where I stand with that and I'm happy with who I am when I go to sleep.

You learn from adversity more than anything because it allows you to see so much. It really allows you to see things in a different way.

Being labeled as someone who would cheat hurts more than anything else I've ever been through in my career.

Days were tough to pass. So, I used to work out in the mornings and sleep during the day. I turned day into night, night into day.

Heaven knows that I have done all that a mortal could do, to save the people, and the failure was not my fault, but the fault of others.

The war years were the most difficult time of my life. There was real famine in Moscow. The water froze inside the houses. There was no heat.

Boxing has been the most difficult thing I've ever done. The biggest challenge in my life. I was a boxer. That was hard. Everything else is pretty easy.

Finding that financial independence away from a broken relationship is probably one of the most powerful places a woman can get to.

There are a few things that make me angry. Mostly things not going my way.

My mother and father didn't love each other, so they were always fighting.

Although my mother and father were both completely legit, it was all around me, this crime and licentiousness.

Mother Nature and Father Time have not been happy with me.

Haters are our ammunition. They motivate us to continue fighting for our rights. That's why I continue to share my story.

Setbacks motivate me.

I like fighting people that scare me a little bit. People that scare me seem to motivate me, and when you motivate me, you get the best performance out of me.

Having been a fighter for 25 years, I know how to handle the fear. The fear is there, but I use it to motivate me.

You can't listen to every little thing that's bad or good said about you. I always used that - whenever I heard it, I used it as fuel to motivate me, man. That's how I was raised, whenever I came up.

You're always going to have somebody that's saying something about you in a negative form or fashion. I think for each and every individual you try to use that to push you, to motivate you whether it really meant something to you, whether it didn't.

Goals give you a mark to shoot for and keep you motivated when you face adversity.

There is too much said about me but this is what gets me more motivated to work harder and prove everyone wrong.

I left my band on my own, and it took me a long time to find major success again - almost a decade. And everything that didn't happen during that time just motivated me to do better.