Quotes About Adversity

I'm going to have fans and I'm going to have people who don't like everything I do. All I can really do is go to work and do my job.

I come from the school of being (stereotyped) since I was five years old. And I know that I should not be putting my personal issues on the table or letting them effect my work.

My parents instilled in me that life was going to be very difficult and that I'd have to work for everything.

I try to bear pain and not panic. I try to remember that it's got an expiration date, even if I don't know when that expiration date is. And I try to use it as fuel for my work.

If your dream dies, dream another one. If things don't work out the way you've planned, God has a better plan for you.

Just because something didn't work out your way, or somebody disappointed you, that does not change who you are.

Those who know me are aware that I stand by my mistakes or non-working strategies.

I started watching English news channels and would repeat after the anchor. Since coaching classes were expensive, I joined a call centre where, after undergoing training for a month, I quit. I followed this strategy in 15 BPOs. I could earn money and learn English at the same time.

The stratosphere is a hostile place.

I've been on such a losing streak that if I had been around I would have taken General Custer and given points.

Cub Swanson's a guy you either get through or you don't, and I fought him when he was on a nice winning streak.

It's funny. At one point you've got a 14-game winning streak and people doubt you, then you lose one game and people doubt you even more.

I remember what it's like, when I was 19-0, going on that awesome streak, feeling invincible. But it's like you eventually run into reality.

Ten, 20, 30, winning, losing streak, whatever it is, we've just got to keep pushing, keep getting better each day.

Life is an unending stream of extenuating circumstances.

Life is a never-ending stream of problems that must be confronted, surmounted, and/or solved.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

I've never been in a street fight before, like one-on-one.

I lost an apartment. l became homeless for 11 months and squatted in a building on Sullivan Street in lower Manhattan.

When I started in the clubs, I had to work places where didn't nobody else want to work. I had to do clubs where street gangs were, had to do motorcycle gangs, gay balls and things of that nature.

I've never been in a street fight.

Intelligent people should learn from their experiences. With people on the street, the bad experience has beaten them.

I learned a lot I wouldn't have learned roaming the streets of Dallas.

I ain't going to sit here like, 'My neighborhood was hard, and I had to get out there and grind.' We made it hard for ourselves. We chose to stay on the streets.