Quotes About Adversity

I remember I did a boxing class. I remember sparring one time, and the guy smacked me right in the nose, and I was just like, 'What is this? No. No. None of that.

I ruptured my bicep tendon in a sparring session.

When I get into the Octagon I look at it as another sparring session kind of.

You try to make your sparring sessions as realistic as possible.

My first sparring session I couldn't breathe.

The gifts given to us by God must not be relinquished to those who speak ill of them and who are moved by envy or ignorance.

I do not associate with and I do not speak back to negativity.

Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race.

I'm not the sort of person who gives up on things. The first time we crossed the Atlantic in the balloon, it crashed, and we went on and did the Pacific. First time we crossed the Atlantic in a boat, it sank, and we went on and got the record. So, generally speaking, we will pick ourselves up, brush ourselves down, and carry on.

Close to birth... I lost, like, 80 percent of my hearing, and I had difficulty speaking.

My life would have gone along perfectly well, politically speaking, if it hadn't been for girls.

Speaking is physically difficult for me.

There's always difficulties and challenges in every life, I don't care how much money you make, where you live... and that's something this film speaks to.

You know, I look at Britney Spears who can't even drive without paparazzi in her face, and if I ever get to that level, which I don't expect, but if it does happen and success does happen to come my way, then I'm going to be prepared.

The brighter the fire in your belly to achieve something special, the more hurts you'll have.

There's nothing special about me. Nothing has come easy.

Being in the special forces has really broken a lot of the limitations I thought I had. Thoughts like 'We've done this much, so we should take a break now' were ones that I had to ignore and overcome in my training. They taught me how to keep going, no matter how difficult a situation can get.

Stand-up keeps you alive. It is definitely the most specialized field in comedy because you need to stay sharp and well-tuned every night.

Human beings are remarkably resilient. When you think about it, our species has been teetering upon the edge of the existential cliff since Hiroshima. In short, we endure.

We all have that capacity to lose our humanity when circumstances force us to do so. It's not specific to people who live in Africa or Latin America or Asia. And equally, we are capable of regaining ourselves.

I don't know what it is about me that gets cast in specific roles. Some people would say, 'You're just a pretty face,' but on 'Battlestar,' I'm not looking pretty every day. I'm pretty banged up.

I've had a very specific path over the years. Sometimes they're not all we want them to be, but they create who we are.

The reality of show business - and I suppose a lot of businesses, but specifically show business - is that it is this business of 'no's.' It's mostly 'no's.'

Music and comedy, musical comedy, specifically, really helped me through my childhood. I felt out of place, I felt lots of adversity, and I felt scared all the time.