Quotes About Adversity

I'm completely dyslexic, so academia was never really my path.

I just take it a day at a time, and that's how I get through each day.

I try to look at each situation and try to find a positive out of each one.

Every challenge brings something different and I get better each time I fight.

I can say, out of my whole life, my dad left the situation at an early age for me; he left. But my mum turned her back on me.

One year was so bad for me and my wife that we were going to have to sell our house until Elaine decided to change career and earn some money.

I grew from nothing. I have been through everything and I have earned it.

Growing up in Paterson wasn't the easiest thing.

It takes a great strength of character to arrive at Real at eighteen years and make a journey like I have so far.

If someone hit you in the face 7 times, you're not just going to smile on the eighth.

I love this country, and I won't let losing an election force me away from the process.

For me, I love the path that I have taken on. I take all of my experiences; I eliminate all of the bad and take all of the positive.

I've already been KO'd, embarrassed. Nothing is going to be worse than that, so what's to be scared of?

My day goes from one embarrassing moment to the next.

I was embarrassing against Spinks.

Early in my career, I was only being dissed by Chingy. Now, I'm being dissed by Eminem. Life is great.

We've been through a lot personally, emotionally and career-wise.

A hater is actually an employee to your progress!

I don't think the end of the world is the end of the world.

I think maybe because I do other things and they mean as much to me as movie acting, it takes the onus off me. It's not the end of the world if I can't get a film job, or if a movie doesn't turn out well - even though I don't like it when that happens.

It helps to know how to lose. You know it is not the end of the world, and you pick yourself up and move ahead.

In college, when you lose one game as a top team, it's like the end of the world.

It's not the end of the world if I lose. I try to keep it all in perspective.

If you lose it's not the end of the world.