Quotes About Adversity

I have learned it's not how you fall but how you get up that truly matters.

If I fall, I'll take the fall and get up and keep going.

No matter how chaotic it is, wildflowers will still spring up in the middle of nowhere.

Growing up in the ghetto is pretty hard. It's poverty; it's frustration.

I had a bad background just growing up as a child.

My dad always said, 'Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.'

I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up.

I'm taking each day one day at a time, and building up my strength and endurance. It's crazy because it takes no time at all to lose everything you have and then so much time to gain it back.

Just because Fate doesn't deal you the right cards, it doesn't mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.

Things go up and down. If you can survive the down, it will come back.

I like to think that I can run, but I remember once running up and down through different terrains while on set in Iceland, and I face planted.

In the rainy season, sometimes to get to the first lesson we had to run really quick, because we had to cross the river to school and we'd have to go up and down the bank to find a place to cross because there is no bridge.

I feel like everybody's got their health issues and their battles, and yeah, mine go up and down. It's never really over.

I am one of those players who has many scars up and down my legs from being kicked, but I know I have a job to do, and beating my opponent is my goal.

Anyone that plays knows football is up and down. As much as you want to, you can't control everything. You take what positives you can.

My recovery has been backwards, forwards, up and down - and still is.

Life is not going from bad to good, but it's a balance of the two that kind of goes up and down. There are bad things and there are good things.

My career has been up and down through injuries, through different coaches that I played for.

I don't quit and can't be broken. I have been through every up and down you can imagine in the world of sports-entertainment and I am still here running strong.

As a manager, the more consistent you are, the better off you are. It's easy to be up when things go well. When things don't go well, the players will follow your lead. So you have to be consistent and upbeat, which takes some work sometimes.

My upbringing wasn't overly comfortable.

Fighting comes down to who you are as a person. With B.J. Penn, he has no problems, not a hard upbringing and came up with money or whatever and he's just a fighter, he enjoys the fight and he refined his skills so I don't think it necessarily has to be a rough upbringing for guys to be great fighters.

My father was very clear; I had to have an ordinary upbringing. I was put to work as a lowly-paid trainee after college. I didn't like it at the time, but I can't help but feel that that was probably the best thing for me.

I had a pretty modest upbringing; it was no pleasure cruise. I don't think I would be as happy today if I hadn't been through that. It was tough; I made some bad choices myself.