Quotes About Adversity

Don't be scared...Women can handle the worst kind of pain. You'll find out one day.

I did everything he did but backwards & in high heels.

Many of the most successful men and women in the world never graduated from college. They attended the school of life instead.

What doesn't kill men makes them stronger. What doesn't kill women makes men breakfast.

Other women who flew were women of independent means. But I had to do something with it.

Most women who have done something with their lives have been disliked by almost everyone.

Toughness doesn't have to come in a pinstripe suit.

Women were different, no doubt about it. Men broke so much more quickly. Grief didn't break women. Instead it wore them down, it hollowed them out very slowly.

You know, I came in as a rookie and didn't get to play much at all, really. Became a sponge. I had to go through the rough, get cut a couple times, take the G-league route, which was the D-league back then.

I've never had a car sponsor or all the things that most others seemed to have had.

I was not born with a golden spoon in my mouth.

Most of us weren't born with a silver spoon in our mouth, but if life dealt you all the wrong cards, you still have to play.

When you are dining with a demon, you got to have a long spoon.

I was born with a plastic spoon in my mouth.

I was not born with a silver spoon in my mouth.

I love my story. I wouldn't change it. It gives it character. It's never been on a silver spoon.

Men are the sport of circumstances when it seems circumstances are the sport of men.

If the champion can't fight because of an injury, it's not my fault. It happens in this sport. It's normal.

If you're going to be a man and get in there and do this sport, you better man up and understand your own mistakes. There's no way to get around that. There's absolutely no way.

Up until the age of 16, I was very focused on sport - I played a lot of football. Then I tore my ACL and had to stop playing.

Sport, like life, hardly gives you second chances, certainly not in a pandemic era.

I'm not a great athlete that can play any sport. But one thing I could always do is... fight back.

Stuff happened in every sport. Every sport can become abusive.

I enjoy the sport, I enjoy the challenge that it brings and it certainly does bring that for me and it's not an easy one.