Quotes About Adversity

When 'Soorma' was first discussed with me, 'Bhaag Milkha Bhaag' was fresh in my memory because when I saw it and saw the hard work that went into making Milkha Singh an iconic figure, I felt that a biopic should also be made highlighting the odds that I've fought to make it so far in life.

I always go against the odds.

There are people who have incredible stories that we don't talk about. People who did amazing things, men and women who faced incredible odds, and there's nothing wrong with them being heroes for once, you know?

I had always previously really fed off of negativity and enjoyed being the guy who everybody hated.

Many offenders have had immensely difficult upbringings and do not have the support of loving families and friends.

I've been in international competition, and now I know what the big boys can do. You don't go out and just run. There's an offense and a defense.

When I was younger, I was thinking of ways I could get respect so people wouldn't bother me. I was down for whatever. I ended up going to juvenile hall, facing a good amount of time for a first-time offense.

I've been on some really good teams, but we weren't able to get over the hump. It's offense, defense and special teams, and then the ball has to go your way.

It's difficult when you step out there with somebody like me and my offense.

I was letting the lack of touches on offense really affect my defense.

There's absolutely nothing anyone can say about my mother or myself or my step-father that we haven't heard before. You'd have to be a Dickens or a Nabakov to come up with something really offensive.

If your best offensive players go down, all you can do is hang on.

When I was younger, I initially hated football because they put me on the offensive line because I was the biggest kid.

It's a scary thing when a team don't know who to match up to, whose night it's going to be on the offensive end.

I was depressed about the roles that were on offer, so I had to make my own stories.

Too many of my heroes have been cut down, but do I want security guards? No. I've been offered them in the past. But the more you present yourself as someone afraid of being attacked, the more people see you as someone to attack.

I have been fortunate enough to be offered characters and projects that challenge me and that are different from the characters that I have played.

When you get offered the captaincy, you've got to have a go. In India, where it went well, I was playing well ,and anything that needed doing, I'd do it myself. When I wasn't playing well, it was tough.

Call it my bad luck or whatever it is, after 'Pyaar Impossible,' people were offering me nonsense films. I was offered roles of no consequence.

A lot of fighters are counted out after a loss, and it's really what you do afterward that offers an explanation to your career.

When I went from Tottenham to China a lot of people said that was it, my career was over. I had a couple of other offers at the time but they were both loans and I would have had to go back at the end. I just wanted to play.

Some officers do so much to try and get at you.

Officials called a foul; there's nothing you can do. A foul is a foul. If it was a hard foul, it was a hard foul. There is nothing you can do. So you just move on.

Despair often breeds disease.