Quotes About Adversity

I do tend to apply myself to projects that make me uncomfortable because usually when that happens I try to find a way of existing in the project that is more creative.

I don't want a life without my mom in it, but I'm not someone who curls up in the fetal position and says, 'Mommy, take care of me!' I don't like people catering to me. It feels so awkward and uncomfortable.

I think actors get too comfortable. I like being uncomfortable as an actor because it keeps you alive. I don't know, I think it's important.

I like to put myself in the most uncomfortable position.

Everyone has an uncomfortable club in their bag.

Not being able to grow in comfort is a beautiful thing when you're uncomfortable, so just embrace it and roll with it, and you'll come out stronger.

I think I've been in a lot of really uncomfortable situations, and I think when you're in uncomfortable situations, it kind of polishes you up a little. It shines you up.

My whole thing is I don't want to break mentally. I want to find comfort in uncomfortable situations.

You've got to be able to hang in there in some uncomfortable pockets and uncomfortable situations, where you're going to take a hit and deliver the football.

When things come up, you deal with them. However uncomfortable that is, let's have this discussion right now.

You have to get uncomfortable to meet your goals.

I'm going to force Danny Garcia to fight me, to be uncomfortable and to do things he's not used to doing in a fight.

The trouble is, I don't read aloud well, and never have. I grew up dyslexic, and it's remained uncomfortable for me even as an adult.

At one stage, I didn't have any money, so I slept on the streets for a few nights. It wasn't uncommon in the 1950s, and it wasn't uncommon to be out of money. There wasn't anywhere to go to get money.

There are few relationships that give as unconditionally as food. I have opened and shut down restaurants and slept on the streets, but I have always bounced back because my belief in the relationship has been strong.

My mother had to make an unconventional decision. We had to run away from home. She made a really difficult decision to leave financial stability behind and undertake raising two girls on her own.

No matter how many plots we uncover and disrupt, no matter how many terrorist organizations we degrade or destroy, another individual or group will rise to take their place.

A hero has faced it all: he need not be undefeated, but he must be undaunted.

Muhammed Ali is my favorite boxer, and the reason that I love Ali is because he's not undefeated. It's because of the fact that he risked it all at times and lost - but then came back.

I've faced the undefeated, young up-and-comers, everybody counting me out before, on a big card, with big lights, TV.

All of the great fighters have had losses but are still considered among the greatest ever. The undefeated record is not as important to me as facing the toughest challenges out there.

There's no way to recover after tarnishing an undefeated record.

Ronda had her time and that buzz around her. She knows it has cooled down now. She knows she lost. That's the problem. She was undefeated for a long time and doesn't know how to deal with a loss now.

It's just part of the game that we just have to get used to. Sometimes it goes our way, sometimes it don't. But it's still a sport, and you want to be undefeated.