Quotes About Adversity

The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold.

Some of the stuff in Season 3 on 'Game of Thrones' - the amount of mud I had to eat, not intentionally but by accident - was pretty tough.

I can easily be lying in the gutter with someone kicking mud in my face tomorrow as easily as I can float in the clouds with angels sprinkling fairy dust in my hair. So, I make an effort to treat both success and failure equally.

When I was 18, I went to the East Coast of America, got mugged, and came straight home.

Essentially, my hero-role model is Muhammad Ali, because when I watched this one fight of his with my dad when I was a kid, and I watched him not go down... I think him just taking a lot of blows and not going down, it was so moving.

I have experienced sexism multiple times, and I'm sure I will a lot more.

I have been trolled multiple times, and it doesn't affect me anymore.

My artist career failed pretty miserably multiple times.

I've been dropped on my head multiple times.

Anybody can be beaten by one pass once. Are you getting beat by that same pass multiple times in the same game? That answer is no.

Most teams won't really focus on one player because they've got multiple players to defend and that will open up a lot of things for me.

I always say don't be scared. It's not that bad - there's always something worse - and there is definitely life after multiple sclerosis.

I got really, really sick with a horrible disease called transverse myelitis; I lost my legs. I couldn't play anymore. It was a form of multiple sclerosis, which I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy.

My father, he left the family when I was 13, so mum looked after us.

As my mum still candidly says, I was the runt of the litter.

When my dad died, I was eight. Becky was seven. My mum had cancer, the first of two bouts that she's fought and beaten.

I feel like a semi-single mum.

My mum wouldn't let me go outside. Coming back from school, the gang men sometimes would say things, but I would walk by, never answer, and my mum would go tell them leave me alone.

My mum and dad got divorced when I was nine and my brother was seven, and all they strived to do was to make sure we weren't affected.

I am bouncing back despite being a girl from Mumbai who didn't work for two years. A lot of others girls in the same situation would have had to walk away from the industry.

With Bayern Munich, we had a lot of problems against Dortmund, always.

My first year in Munich was definitely not easy.

The Muppets are always really positive when they come across adversity, and they always have the ability to see the good in people.

I'm just waiting for the day when my songs aren't flying. Because I kind of believe in Murphy's law - if something can go wrong, it eventually will.