Quotes About Adversity

I wanted to look like Mike Tyson. But then I started to realize, in a twelve round fight, you must be patient.

Fighting behind closed doors is like going back to be an amateur, or your early days as a professional. Up and coming fighters can do it but for your bigger guys like Anthony Joshua, Tyson Fury and me, I don't think we can do that.

Our music's kind of about taking something ugly and making it beautiful.

The combat environment has the effect of flattening out civilian identities. If you're young or old, or a graduate from Harvard or the son of a farmer from Alabama, or if you're gay or straight or good-looking or ugly: none of those things matters much in combat, as long as you can conform to the group expectations.

I am a woman like any other and ugly things happen to me like any other women.

I've been booed on stages. I'm a little bit tougher than to walk off a stage because someone says something ugly.

Kids threw rocks at me, told me I was ugly and left death threats in my locker.

I've always been pretty independent, no matter what situation: good, bad, ugly, happy, sad. I dig deep, and I get over it.

Of course, people told me, 'Mikey, you will never be an actor. You don't have the look. You're ugly.'

We've been playing ugly. Without all of our bodies, we've been kicking it all over the shop, but fortunately we've been able to make the big buckets and rely on our defense for once.

I was told my whole life, you're fat, you're ugly, you're never going to amount to be anything.

Very ugly things were said about me.

Basic training is horrible. It's dirty, and it's ugly. But you learn it's not just about you. It makes you part of a team, which helps you to survive.

I used to be in a street fight at least twice a week, so locking me in a cage with somebody, with a set of rules and a referee to jump in if something get ugly, and a time limit, like, it don't scare me.

We had to leave Norway and go where it was all happening, which was London. We loved it there, but it was hard. We had no money - we were literally starving. It started to get ugly.

Bullying made me feel insecure, alone, ugly, powerless, and hopeless at times.

We can't have a show where we only show the good parts and when things turn ugly, as life often does, we stop pack up our stuff, apologize to the millions watching, and just go home.

There are beautiful things about the sport of boxing and there are ugly things.

Gradually, we fell in love with camper-vanning. It's a strange business to begin with - rather like driving a large, rather flimsy cardboard box. It's ugly, the suspension's appalling, you rattle around like pebbles in a tin, and you can't hear yourself speak above the engine.

I'm a player that has sat, literally, on every side of the good, of the bad, of the ugly.

The area I grew up in is a beautiful sight in an ugly picture. At 13, you're 18. At 18, you're 25, and the reason being is that the streets raise you. You have to grow up really fast. The decisions you make could be one of life or death. There's a lot of stress.

Born in the UK, brought up in Ghana, it was a sort of childhood of hardship and difficulty.

My mom Marina and I were poor and hungry. We could sometimes not afford to eat - seriously. We lived together in a small town, called Berdyansk, in Ukraine. I was an only child. I don't think we would have survived if there had been more kids.

Growing up in a very poor orphanage in Ukraine, there wasn't much food.