Quotes About Adversity

When I was living in New York and didn't have a penny to my name, I would walk around the streets and occasionally I would see an alcove or something. And I'd think, that'll be good, that'll be a good spot for me when I'm homeless.

The streets will get you in jail.

I wasn't really into music. I was into the streets. I was too worried about the streets and how I was going to eat and how I was going to make the streets happen.

When I got divorced, it was another culture shock. It was going from this world I had been into since the age of 16 to literally standing on the streets of New York in kind of shock.

I lived in the streets for three years when I was a kid, and every day, I didn't know where my next meal would come from.

I like the streets. I grew up in the streets.

I was a quiet kid on the streets. The loudmouths would push me around but when I was boxing, I was beating them up and it felt good.

I grew up in the streets, but that doesn't mean I'm a bum.

I learned to play football in the streets. Every day of school, everyone came and played football. The street is a good school, and you learn many things there - resiliency, how to play against older players, and how to put up with or dodge kicks.

I was never good at school and was always fighting in the streets.

There's really no age limit when you out there in those streets.

Growing up in the streets of Bed-Stuy, it was hard, yo.

I had a calling inside of me. I had a sense that when I was going through experiences like living on the streets, losing my parents to AIDS, just having my whole world turned upside-down, there was this feeling inside of me like I was meant for something greater.

I feel like I'm married to what I do, to the streets. And I feel like when the streets are mad, it's serious.

The rocky time came right after I left school. I spent a lot of time at night navigating the streets of Paris trying to find something to eat.

I had to fend for myself from the time I was 17 years old. I was a high-school dropout. I wasn't quite living on the streets, but I didn't have a lot of hope.

I was skint, and I had to move back to my mum and dad's house, back into the room I shared with my brother when I was a kid. I kept getting people on the streets telling me that they loved me; it didn't mean anything to me because I was still borrowing tenners off my pensioner father to go and get some chicken.

I saw worse stuff inside prison than I ever saw in the streets.

I started out playing football in the streets, playing barefoot like all the boys there - we didn't have the money for football boots.

Boxing gave me the discipline and took me away from the streets and away from the corners. It changed my life, you know. Boxing dragging me away from all the bad potential I had.

The streets are tough but sport, and boxing especially, has put me on the right path in my life.

Your mom's working 9 to 5 every day and might get a second job. So you're really raising yourself, and you've got nobody else, so you go outside, and the streets raised most of us.

Problems are not the problem; coping is the problem.

Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.