Quotes About Adversity

The knee was all deformed, bloodied up and leaking with puss. I just couldn't move it. Stiff. It was like I had a spare leg. All of my quad was skinny. It was like a pole with a pineapple in the middle of it.

Even with me going to prison, it could have put a bad stigma on my name. But you keep going. When people see you in a low situation, when people see you fight, they respect you for it.

Adversity is a stimulus.

I'm not the only one who feels the sting of continually losing.

Being aware of challenges doesn't make them sting less, but once you see them, you can assess the best way to handle them.

The sting of losing is bad.

Coaches often sting me to get the best of me. I am used to it.

The court of public opinion should not matter, but we're all human. And sometimes things sting. But I think you have to be willing to shake it off, and to not fall in love with the applause either.

Everybody's got a 'thing.' Some 'things' are nice and quiet. Some 'things' have fangs and claws. Some 'things' stink and have slobber everywhere.

Practices for me, when your team is not going really well, it can stake a lot of stink out of the air.

Losing definitely does stink.

Keep your eyes open. Make mistakes - because you will anyway - and remember that small stuff stinks but that it's also essential.

I was born dirt-poor with barely a stitch on my back, and no name or prestige attached to me, and no real clout or connections.

We gathered all the stock we could find, and made an attempt to move. We left many of our horses and cattle in Wallowa. We lost several hundred in crossing the river.

The depths of the Depression. You didn't ask what the job was, what the pay was, you didn't ask about stock options, or - you said yes.

I've done so many funny jobs. I worked at a farmer's market through high school. I worked in the stock room of Ralph Lauren. I graduated to salesperson at Ralph Lauren, which was a big deal to me. I've been a P.A. I've been a stand-in. I've been an assistant's assistant.

I have always considered myself a very resilient person, I come from very down-to-earth Northern stock, pragmatic by nature and with that bounce-back-ability.

I was 5 years old when the stock market crashed; I lost everything.

I think I'm very stoic. Death and dying are things that I'm used to.

I lived on nothing for years - squatted where I lived and where I worked, stole electricity, made things from stuff I found in skips, used paper that had been discarded - you do everything you can do to keep going and not have to get a job.

I've never stabbed, hurt, killed, stolen, anything, but I went to jail for a year. What is that? My pastor said to me the fact that I'm not living under a bridge as a crazy woman, talking to myself, is amazing.

I had a 325 - a little red sports car, but it got stolen.

When my three children were little, I took them to Rome. On our way to our destination, we went to see the Colosseum and returned to the car to find everything had been stolen. Trying to buy everything for a week, including clothing for three small, very tired children, was a low point in my life.

When I have that sinking feeling in my stomach before a fight and I have that dread that I'm going to step in there with a savage who is coming in there to hurt me... I have my best fights. I'm at my best under those circumstances.