Quotes About Adversity

I never went to drama school, but I did learn a couple of things along the way.

I'm drawn to failure. I feel like I'm contending with it constantly in my own life.

I'm drawn to opportunities that are going to challenge me and cause me to look outside of my own experiences.

I find that I'm just drawn to anything that's going to challenge me as an actress. So, anything that's going to help me grow.

Divorce is something that I never dreamed would happen to me. But it did.

I'm not afraid of Wolfsburg and I know my dressing room is not.

I've been double-teamed my whole life. I know when a double team's coming. I know what side the guy's coming from. I know how to dribble out of it.

I love pressure. I don't know why, but I love the pressure of, 'oh it's third-and-five' or it's the two-minute drill and someone has to make a play. I'm that guy.

As a driver, you have to accept that some years are more challenging than others. That's part of the game.

Any time that you're criticised, it drives you on, and you try to prove people wrong.

Even in the face of the greatest adversity, the key is to never lose hope, never lose sense of the dream that drives you.

Life is going to hit you some line drives, and sometimes you'll have to think fast. However, it's better to think first than to think fast.

It does make me proud to know where I've come from and how hard I have worked, but I'm also scared of it, because I know what I've had to do, and I don't ever want to go back to that situation. It drives me more to be better.

People always ask me what I did when things went wrong on stage with AC/DC. Nothing ever went wrong. I might drop a drum stick, maybe, but that was about the only thing.

That's what my life has been all about: Every time I get dropped, I come back and win.

I've been dropped. You get up, and you win the fight.

When I got dropped, no one really wanted to work with me... I felt like my career was over and I didn't really know what to do.

I've been hurt in fights. I've been dropped.

A lot of people have tried to dull my light.

I've never been one to dwell on reverses.

People tend not to dwell on drama.

I can't dwell on something that has nothing to do with football at all - it will hold me back.

It's all about being professional. You can't be dwelling on mistakes.

I come from a completely dysfunctional alcoholic family, so we kind of parented ourselves a little bit.