Quotes About Adversity

That's the nicest part of football; you can't do everything to stop a player.

School was kind of rough for me. People weren't always the nicest with what I was doing.

When I fought Nick Thompson, I wasn't experienced enough. That was the first person that put me in a real fight. Before Nick, nobody had put me in a fight where I had to struggle.

My father used to be away for months at a time, and he'd never leave any money for food, so my brother and I had to go out and nick it.

I'm not going to criticise Nick Boles because he fought off cancer.

If I had a nickel for every time I said 'Why me?' I'd have probably said 'Why me?' more often.

I lived in Nigeria, Chad, and Cameroon when I was very young, until my mother divorced my father.

There's only so much cold a Nigerian family can take.

The world's not a very comfortable place if you have a nightmare to face.

Colby Covington is a nightmare match-up for me, but I'm ready to walk through the fire.

I've had a quite a few nightmares about being chased by walkers.

I went over a year without playing baseball. At 39, not playing for a year, a year and a half, there were a lot of nights I was saying, 'This is going to be tough.'

I've never had one of those middle of the nights when I go, 'Why me?' or 'I don't know if I can keep fighting like this.' No. Those thoughts don't even enter my mind.

Everybody is going to have tough shooting nights. It's natural.

Life is not only about dark nights; it's also about beautiful, sunshiny mornings.

I come from a family where some nights you don't know where food's going to come from. There's nights where you're going to have go to bed hungry.

You just go out there and try to do your best. Some days are great. Other nights, it's maybe not your day. It's the other guy's day.

Some nights, depending on who you're going up against, some guys are just capable of hitting tough shots.

I've been through enough competition in amateur wrestling my whole life to know that sometimes you have off nights and you don't perform and chalk it up to that and move on.

When I was nine years old, my family lost our home, and the six of us moved into my grandparents' converted garage.

After floating for nine and a half months in space, gravity is not your friend.

A cat, I am told, has nine lives. If that is true, I know how a cat feels.

It took me nine years to get through the fourth grade. When I got into television commercials, I had to take a crash course in reading. I was 32 years old, and I couldn't read the cue cards.

It was fun winning with the Nasty Nine, but it didn't feel good going into every game with the Nasty Nine, I tell you that.