Quotes About Adversity

I had a hard time with bullying in school, so being creative was my outlet.

I hope to outlive my enemies.

At last we are in it up to our necks, and everything is changed, even your outlook on life.

When someone is outright nasty to you that hurts. I really try not to have a negative outlook. I mean, I'm not going to say I'm not disappointed when I read something bad about myself.

If you're doing something outside of dominant culture, there's not an easy place for you. You will have to do it yourself.

I am a strong competitor inside the ring, outside the ring, in the journey through life.

The more I show what I'm going through, the more I can give answers, the more I can help those on the outside looking in.

Sure, I've dealt with my own share of adversity as an outsider living in this country but I recognize my challenges were not made harder, or impossible, because of the color of my skin.

I've always been an outsider. I've always been attracted to roles that would challenge me and that wouldn't come around very often.

I was an outsider as a kid, and I grew up around a lot of violence.

I think, as an outsider, you are ready to deal with whatever comes your way.

Without boxing, because of my neighborhoods, who knows what would have happened to me. It was always about following the leader. And I definitely was not a leader. Boxing gave me discipline; a sense of self. It made me more outspoken. It gave me more confidence.

I didn't have outstanding numbers coming out of college and I'm not 6'6 with 230 lbs.

I take the good; I take the bad. I don't outweigh them. I just try to balance it all.

It's so much easier to count our disadvantages than tot up the mitigating circumstances that generally outweigh the despair.

I have my way of dealing with lows in my career: I just go on a holiday. Coping with a failure of a film is like coping with a break-up. It's sad and heart-breaking, and it's not like I got over it right after my holiday; it took me some time.

It was hell at the time, but after it was over, it was wonderful.

People say, 'I failed out of college! My life is over!' Well, it's not over. It depends on what you do with it.

My friend told me later he got the chicken pox. I told him I caught politics and never got over it.

I believe everything negative that happens in your life is for a positive reason. If your heart breaks, you know that you are a human being and it happens. But you can't mope over it. There's only one life. You better get on ahead and fast. Fast enough not to let your past ever catch up with you.

To me, I don't even think I had a childhood. From when I was a baby to 12 years old, yes. But as soon as I left the Bahamas, that stuff was over. It was just straight business. I'm on a mission. That's how it's always been.

The great lesson I get from 'Moby-Dick' is that when the times are bad, when there is great foreboding, there are still ways to go about living. It's through Ishmael that I find a kind of overall cosmic approach to a meaningful life in this meaningless world.

Even though I didn't do as well in the UFC as the rest of my career, I feel like I did everything that I could to have an overall successful career.

Once I overcame breast cancer, I wasn't afraid of anything anymore.