Quotes About Adversity

I went through a tough time after leaving 'tennis.

It's hard to focus on a fight when your heart is broken and you're not happy in your relationship, especially if that's your coach. That's like fighting without one leg.

My legacy isn't about what I did playing football, but how I use the opportunities that came from playing football.

When 'Legend' came to me, I was down. I thought my career was over.

Losing my legs was one of the greatest opportunities of my life.

I always felt really lucky that I only lost my legs, because it could've been so much worse.

My legs haven't disabled me. If anything, they've enabled me.

I'm just happy to have my legs back, cause at one point in time, I wasn't even walking.

My legs were my life.

In the movie, I deal with the loss of my legs and adjusting and trying to become a new person, essentially.

When times were good, we made more money. When times are bad, we make less money.

If I make a mistake I try to use it as a lesson and try to improve on it.

You can work through most things and come out on the other side feeling like you've learned a good lesson and you'll get better.

It's tough, but you learn your lesson from all the mistakes you make.

You gotta learn a lesson as you go through life.

I think 2020 for me was the biggest learning lesson of my life.

As long as you walk away from any experience, good or bad, with lessons and things you can take into the next experience, I don't think you can do anything but look back on it with an appreciation.

You always learn lessons in business.

Everything don't work out for the best. You have to use a lot of those things as lessons in order to build yourself up.

I think the greatest mistakes have been my greatest lessons.

I got let go at City, but I always believed I could play at the top level.

As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.

Let us not alter our course simply because it leads into a dark thicket of work.

I am not someone who lets my head get down.