Quotes About Adversity

The 1980s were tough for most of Britain, but nowhere more so than Tottenham.

I would eat fruitcake if there'd been a nuclear war and I'd run out of canned goods.

When I got divorced, I knew I needed to step it up, so I taught nutrition at a college, modeled, and built my dietitian practice all over Canada.

I think being a little nuts is helpful.

I'm nuts, I'm rich, and boy, do I love a fight!

Any coach out there that wants to lose, you make sure they put raisins in the breakfast oatmeal. You'll go down, don't worry about that.

The last thing the devil wants you to do is be an obedient Christian.

I think too many obituaries have been written about me.

Everybody in life has something that they get knocked down on. The object lesson here is not that you get knocked down - it is that you get up.

Problems and issues will always be there, and they'll never leave our side, so the object is to have a good time and make fun out of whatever we do.

Personally, I was oblivious to any financial hardships that my parents endured.

Hardship makes the world obscure.

We're a sport that was in obscurity for so long, we started to get used to that.

We had no money. My family was in Southie; I was in affluent Brookline. I don't know if it's my personality or the circumstance, but it all kind of led to this feeling of being an observer on the outside.

I think the best time to learn things is when you're hurt. Just sitting back and observing to see how you can be effective in certain parts of the games is important.

I was a mad obsessive cricket player as a student. Then during one local match I nearly lost my eye.

I'm going to learn from every obstacle.

It's an obstacle being a girl when you move all over and don't have half the things you need. It's like everything is wrinkled in your life.

In the NFL, you're always facing an obstacle.

Combating any kind of obstacle is much easier if you know that it's real and not your fault, and it's something you can fight against.

The secret in life is to make every obstacle into an opportunity.

Every time I step into the ring there is a different obstacle but I'm very confident in myself and my ability.

I don't believe in giving up. Though there are a lot of obstacles, heartaches and disappointments, you shouldn't allow these things to break you.

In hard times, North Carolinians have shown that we bounce back. But that's not by chance. It's because we are determined. Determined to tough it out. To help each other, and leave no one behind. Determined to turn our obstacles into opportunities.