Quotes About Adversity

There's something about taking the path of least resistance that makes a lot of sense. But at the same time, we have to figure out which things in life are worth struggling through.

If something is going on and you are struggling, embrace it. You are growing.

I was a struggling army wife going to community college who didn't know what to do with my life.

I don't think one ever stops struggling.

I experienced life in a struggling team at Eintracht Frankfurt, but I was still young then and didn't understand what it meant to be relegated.

Struggling has done a couple of things for me. It is an experience to have and it makes you appreciate the good stuff.

I had a really rough time from sort of July 2015 to July 2016. I was really struggling with my game.

The thing with sledging is it very rarely goes well. Usually, if I was sledging, I was struggling.

Sometimes people take struggling on the court to an extreme level.

People think because I was at City that I've only won leagues and cups, but I was there when we were struggling.

I was struggling, and I was struggling mentally more than anything, and that will carry over to the games.

I get stubborn and dig in when people tell me I can't do something and I think I can. It goes back to my childhood when I had problems in school because I have a learning disability.

I make myself have energy. It's stubbornness in the face of cancer.

The stubbornness I had as a child has been transmitted into perseverance. I can let go but I don't give up. I don't beat myself up about negative things.

If you're going through something, just know that you're gonna come out on the other side. You're going through it - you're not stuck there forever.

When I was signed to Quincy Jones before I went independent, he told me to rap what you know, and people will forever feel you. And I stuck to that, no matter how many people called me a devil worshiper, no matter how many people call me a cult leader. I stuck with rapping about what I know.

When I moved to Los Angeles, aged 54, I printed out Winston Churchill's phrase, 'Never, never, never give up', and stuck it on my fridge. I had no idea what was going to happen, but I knew I had to keep on going.

I got into a car accident and couldn't play baseball, hockey, and basketball. We stuck with golf for a little while, and it's panned out. I think it was a blessing in disguise.

I had me jaw broken, and so my chin stuck way out. That's how I became tough - I learned to pick up anything and fight back.

What you're looking at there is my arm, going into the rock... and there it is - stuck. It's been without circulation for 24 hours. It's pretty well gone.

First time I ever played a bad guy. I didn't want to do it. I got stuck in bad guys for 13 years after that.

When things could've gone really bad, rugby caught my interest and I really stuck with it. The sport brought me, maybe off the streets where we'd be fighting, into putting in a good effort in the rugby field where you're kind of rewarded for that rough behaviour instead of in trouble with the law.

I got my heel stuck in a drain as I was crossing the street and cars were coming. It was really scary. A girl in heels in New York is a hard combination.

I'm a rock god? I'm five foot seven. I had me jaw broken, and so my chin stuck way out. That's how I became tough - I learned to pick up anything and fight back... A rock god!