Quotes About Adversity

I feel like crying and sadness has brought an actual change to the shape of my mouth.

I've got a shadow on the lung as a result of being in intensive care, so I find running quite hard. I breathe mainly through my mouth because my nose is damaged, so I keep swallowing flies.

Sometimes getting hit in the mouth ain't all bad. It can even make you respond in the right way.

Some people from my past coming to extort me, put me in crazy situations, trying to take food out of my family's mouth and just a lot of outside circumstances.

No one likes getting hit. It's a normal thing... I used to make up excuses when the coach would ask me to get in the ring. I'd say I forgot my mouthpiece, or I'd say I had a headache or something.

I match up with the best guys in the world. I'm not being cocky; it's just always how I felt. But I got into trouble as soon as I got into the NBA, and it left a bad taste in a lot of people's mouths.

When you're cornered, there are two things you can do: move or fight.

As you move through life, it's not going to be a bright, sunshiny day every day.

Nobody's perfect. We make mistakes, but the important thing is we learn from them and move forward.

Just do what you do. Sometimes you do well, and sometimes you do wrong, but you have to just be able to deal with yourself and move forward.

Like everyone else, I've made a lot of mistakes in my life. The only way I know how to handle them is to learn from them and move forward.

Everyone's had a setback, but it's how you move forward and what you do with your future, that's what matters.

You've got to have a short memory in this game, and move forward. Pick yourself up after a loss, and check yourself after a win.

You have to talk about mistakes and then talk about what you have learned and how to move forward. You acknowledge missteps right away, you deal with them, and you move ahead.

I just move forward and not worry about the things I can't control.

I need to show my son that when things get hard and rough - not if, when - you have to keep going; you have to move forward.

I think any knock-back is a positive because it just helps you progress and move forward.

Life stuff happens. You get knocked down, and you get back up. That's just always been my mentality. I'm not really fazed by anything. It's in the past. There's nothing I can really do about it now. You learn from it, and you move on.

When you have something that you did so many jobs on and were so front and center on, and then people dislike it, you want to learn lessons from it, and you want to move on, and you want to move on too fast.

We all make mistakes but one has to move on.

Criticism, even when you try to ignore it, can hurt. I have cried over many articles written about me, but I move on and I don't hold on to that .

Our creator says, 'Here's your birth and here's your death' - and the rest are the things you learn on your journey. This was my experience - and the choice is, I can lay in the misery, or choose to learn from it and move on.

If you do something and it goes wrong, you learn from it and you move on.

Even when you've made mistakes in life, you can still contribute and pick up the stuff and move on.