Quotes About Adversity

We have fought and cried. But I think, over time, one falls, learns, grows, and moves on. Shah Rukh and I have had our share of highs and lows.

I've done some of my best work in films that fell right through the cracks, so I try to not make career moves but to build a body of work.

You don't grow up with Hulk Hogan as your dad and not learn a few moves.

I didn't come up in a culture or society that looked on me as a movie star. I was the bad guy. I was fortunate enough to be cast in some roles that weren't bad, were positive.

My father being incarcerated for 25 years, 26 years, so I had a rough past, but me moving to Atlanta, I just thought that changed my whole identity - my thinking.

I didn't excel too highly in school, but I felt that I was moving ahead - and not just in boxing - but in life.

There's some real dark days where you just feel like the story is falling apart in every one. Just keep moving forward, even when you are bluffing, even when you don't quite know what is going to happen next.

All I can do is keep moving forward.

I believe that people make mistakes, but I also believe that you bounce back from those and I'm just moving forward.

The heart will break, but broken live on.

I have made many decisions that I probably shouldn't have made, but life is about making mistakes, learning and moving on.

Obviously it's hard to lose a coach; that's not fun for anybody because you care about him and you have a relationship with him. But as players, we just have to keep moving on.

I've been around the league for a while. I know the business of the league. Some stuff, like my mom said, you let it roll off your back like water on a duck's back. You keep moving on.

It's true that moving out of that fairly difficult environment, how we lived, which wasn't easy, can be seen as a success. And it's a good thing.

Keep in mind that in 1975, when you became a cook, it was because you were between two things: you were between getting out of the military and... going to jail. Anybody could be a cook, just like anybody could mow the lawn.

Life is hard, but we make it much harder.

It's easy to break things. Much, much easier, it seems, than building them.

Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.

Character is much easier kept than recovered.

If I beat Hughes they'll say he was done before our fight. There's always going to be those guys that play up the negative part of it, I don't pay too much attention to that.

If you see a defense team with dirt and mud on their backs they've had a bad day.

I'm a mudboy. I came from the mud, oozed out the concrete. I'm not a rose. I'm a mudboy: I came from nothing.

You have to lift your head up out of the mud and just do it.

I never had a budget, I never had a manager, I never had a PR. I never had nothing. I was getting everything straight out the mud.