Quotes About Adversity

I'm frightened a lot. I feel like it's caused me a lot of obstacles.

If doing anything new, you're very used to having insurmountable obstacles.

Every walk that I do, there's obstacles in the way. There's always somebody or something that comes across negative, but I live for that sort of thing.

I've learned at the book signings that everyone has obstacles.

I really think if you take away a character's obstacles then there's no comedy.

I was always taught to let the obstacles be your guide because they lead you to places that you wouldn't have gone on your own. Instead of going through a rock, you go around it, creating a path.

I dropped out of high school when I was, like, 15, so I just focused on doing music. It's all I wanted to do; I didn't want to work or anything else. I took all the negativity and obstacles that came with life, and I just put it in the music.

That's been the story of my life - obstacles: trying to figure a way over them, around them, under them; sometimes you have to go straight through them.

As an athlete, there is no bigger compliment in my mind you can pay a guy when you say he can get the job done despite the obstacles he'll face.

Every time you try to do something different, you have to expect obstacles.

Little obstacles, if they don't go my way, I really don't even get down. I've been through so much.

I've come over so many obstacles over the years, so now when things get chucked at me, I know that I can get through to the other side with the mindset that I've got.

I like anything that is like an obstruction, something that I have to act through is good.

I could have begged. They made it obvious to me that if I wanted to come back and be a good boy... but I'd rather be in Roots than Good Times.

This game is obviously about failure. You're going to fail most of the time. It's how you handle it.

Injuries obviously change the way you approach the game.

Obviously I was challenged by becoming a Naval aviator, by landing aboard aircraft carriers and so on.

You deal with what comes to you. If it's something you don't like, you deal with it the best you can. If it's something that you love, you rise to the occasion.

Knowing that you have something you have to deal with, rising to the occasion, builds character.

I don't rise to the occasion when there's no occasion.

I always rise to the occasion for that big bet.

On one occasion I had to sleep on a stretcher balanced on two kitchen chairs. It wasn't glamorous.

Don't necessarily avoid sharp edges. Occasionally they are necessary to leadership.

What I do with my life is of my own doing. I live it the best way I can. I've been criticized on many, many occasions, because of - acquaintances, and what have you.