Quotes About Adversity

I purposely put myself in new, stressful situations so that I can continuously learn.

If you're getting stressed, it's OK, life is stressful.

I've got a great support system around me, helping me through the adversity, whether it's us having a stretch of games where we're losing or if I'm not playing as good as I want. I just try to stay focused and keep my head down and don't look up until it's over.

Actors usually tend to gravitate towards the evil things that stretch them.

A good role is something that will stretch your abilities and make you go beyond your levels.

Often my best work comes from somebody trying to stretch me in a direction that I wouldn't normally want to go in. It's not something I fight at all.

I grew up very poor, so I learned how to stretch a dollar. It's nice to combine high-end with low-end or whatever-end you want.

It's amazing how small business owners figure out how to stretch a dollar as far as they possibly can.

It would be nice to wake up and be able to walk to the bathroom. But even when I was 20 and at the Paris Opera, I had to crawl down the stairs; it is only when I start to work and stretch that my body begins to recover again.

There are a couple of things I would have liked to have done, but the producer or director couldn't stretch the concept to allow for my size. Whenever that happens, I just say, 'Deal with it, and try to get the weight off, and get on with your life.'

Alleged 'impossibilities' are opportunities for our capacities to be stretched.

Characters stretching their legs in some calm haven generally don't make for interesting protagonists.

When I was on 'The Walking Dead,' I was working with some great actors, but I wasn't working very much. It wasn't stretching me very much.

When my parents went off to Knoxville to work, I lived with my father's mother. She was strict - the kind who starched and ironed dresses. I had to sit more than I played. Oh, I was miserable. I liked being out with the animals. I'd come in the house with my hair pulled out, sash off the dress, dirty as heck. I was always getting spanked.

After I had my heart operation I got really into heart stuff. I did think it would be lovely to go on 'Strictly' just so people could see I wasn't finished. But, sadly, now I couldn't because of my joints. I'd be hobbling around.

I had bought a farm, was trying to rebuild my life and just looking to be left alone. Then I get charged with perjury strictly for political purposes.

I take my forgetfulness in a positive stride because I also forget the problems.

Rumors will always be there. So, good or bad you have to take them in your stride because you are a public figure.

Football's football. You're going to come across the good and the bad, but you've got to take it all in your stride.

If you take yourself too seriously, something like a bad review could put you off your stride.

Bad things written about me do bother me and affect me, but then I have learnt to take it in my stride. I have also learnt to keep quiet about certain things.

There will be good times, and there will be bad, but one has to, to the extent possible, take things in one's stride.

It's just what it is. It just all happened in my stride.

Young quarterbacks usually experience bumps in the road. I'll take them in stride.