Quotes About Adversity

I got hurt when I was 19. They thought I broke my neck. I couldn't move my hands or feet, and I had a very bad experience.

When you have a chain around your neck, you have to keep your head down and try to accept your fate without succumbing entirely to humiliation, without forgetting who you are.

It's depressing to think what it would mean to be impaired down the neck.

I was stabbed in the neck when I was 15.

I broke my neck.

Everything Maradona did, he did with a guy hanging on his neck during 90 minutes.

You don't need money to be creative. The ghetto builds champions every day.

Pretty much everything I carry with me, I learned I needed the hard way. I sweated, dry-lipped, dry-mouthed, soaked-to-the-skinned my way through all of these lessons.

There's nothing like necessity of needing to do something to cause you to come up with abstractions that help you break through the forms.

Once, even the simple metal needle challenged the conventional thinking of a time.

I'll always find the hardest path. Needless to say, not always a good idea.

I was 'Little Ty,' 'Little Tyrone.' I always got this negative feedback from the game of basketball.

You learn more from the negative things.

One way to make a positive out of a negative is that you can put it into your work.

The closer we come to the negative, to death, the more we blossom.

I should only look back at moments that were disparaging, look down upon, negative for me - moments where I could learn something. And if I have been able to use that learning in future, then I am happy about it.

When you go through a negative situation, don't think about it. Make it positive.

If you don't have negative experiences, you have no way to gauge the positive ones, and you have no way to deal with it.

I can't get caught up in the negative because that destroys you.

I don't let negative criticism, for the most part, bother me.

Negative politics have always been around.

I try to keep away exterior events that are going to make me do something negative internally to myself.

I just ignore those who say negative comments against me. Whether I'm doing right or wrong, they would still say the same things against me.

You can never really ignore negative comments. There will always be some comments that will hurt you.