Quotes About Adversity

Life - life is not fair. But it can be extraordinary.

Life's not fair, I guess.

I think, when you survive any intense experience, people try to moralize you; a lot of people just try to raise you high, and it's so not fair to you and to everybody else.

I don't mind someone saying I'm not good enough. It hurts more when someone says you're faking an injury.

Paper Doll' is about being bullied, and about having someone in your life who is constantly trying to put you down, and trying to make you feel like you are not good enough being who you are.

I'm not interested in a film about golf but I am interested in golf as a metaphor.

If I'm not completely daunted, I'm not interested.

At the end of the day, I'm still an African-American woman in a male-dominated industry, so sometimes you have to deal with people not taking your ideas seriously. But I look at it as, I'd rather have adversities in something that I love than doing something that I hate or where I am not interested.

I'm not interested in passion and love for their own sake - without the struggle of life, they're just fluff.

Every time I do a project, it always comes with a level of discomfort and not knowing how to do it.

It would be fair to say that the start of my life in Manchester was not perfect, but there have been many other times when I've had setbacks, and I have never given up.

Life is not perfect.

It is during difficult times like this that the true American spirit reveals itself. I am not talking only of the response of local, state, and federal governments, although they will each play an extremely important role in this effort.

After a couple bouts with cancer and everything, black cats are nothin', you know?

Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.

I ain't never had nothing good in life.

If there was something that kind of molded me into who I am now, it would be my dad. Whether it be going through adversity with a smile on my face, understanding that nothing matters other than winning and what it takes to win. All of that I think came from him.

Attacking me and Fox News is nothing new - it's a cottage industry.

Foreclosure is nothing new. And it certainly will always be a fact of life for some.

I've heard all my life how I'm too short or not big enough to play this game. It's nothing new.

You can't go back and change everything because it is incredibly expensive to do. You just have to learn to live with your mistakes. If there aren't too many of them and they aren't too big, people generally don't seem to notice them.

It doesn't matter that I'm taking a fight on a month's notice. I've taken many fights on two seconds' notice.

I didn't notice pain in the way that most guys would.

Fight fans always appreciate a fighter who is willing to step up on short notice.