Quotes About Adversity

I try to be optimistic, but in this business it's so hard. The craziest stuff can happen.

Me going to college was not an option.

I wrote 'Option B' because I want other people to know it can get better, and I want to help people make it better.

Some people are born and train their whole life to be an NBA player. But some people, if it doesn't work out, then they have no other option.

If you look at champions, they came from nothing. That's where they get their drive and determination and hunger. They know they have no other option to succeed, because they had nothing. I had everything.

My parents are hard nuts. Especially my Dad. He never wanted me to struggle and he always wanted me to fight my own battles. He would never give me the easy option or the easy route.

But Id missed the boat in rugby, I was stuck in a rut and I needed a change. I was lucky to have darts as an option.

My parents sacrificed everything because they wanted a better life for me and my little sister. That's why we came to the U.S. So it wasn't an option not to step up to those high expectations. So I didn't go to high school. There was an early entrance program at California State in Los Angeles, and I started college at 13.

Many comedians and comedy writers have shared the childhood experience of learning to joke to protect themselves from neighborhood bullies when challenge or physical defense were not among the sensible options.

As a woman in Saudi Arabia, you have one of two options. You either lose your mind - which at first happened to me because I fell into a deep depression - or you become a feminist.

When you're out of gas, you don't have many options.

I think I put myself in a position where I have all kinds of opportunities available to me, if God forbid something doesn't work out, at least I have other options.

We are pretty firm believers in the fact that you make your own fate, with or without the Facebook ordeal.

I went through an extremely trying ordeal, but I never forgot the world outside was a beautiful place.

Sometimes, growth isn't always equal to success. You may fall forward and continue to make some mistakes, but it's all about growth and really finding the lessons that needs to be learned in order to get to the next level.

No matter what you do, you're going to run into haters online. We're not talking about ordinary, disgruntled customers who should be addressed with empathy and understanding. Haters are a breed apart.

I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances.

I'm an ordinary person under extraordinary circumstances.

I lost my spleen, I lost the hearing in my left ear, so I had a lot of internal organ damage.

To force something that was not organic to who I am was tough on me, and so I can relate to all those girls and guys out there going through the same thing.

This medal goes to show that you don't always have to have the best facilities, the best organisation, the best of everything to achieve.

That first loss in the UFC was a tough one. I hadn't fought in a year, and you start again, different organisation, different scenario, and it all plays into it.

Challenges need to be given to an organization.

I was leaving probably one of the greatest organizations in hte world at that time for what was probably one of the least like, and, by God, this is America.