Quotes About Adversity

Pressure lets you know what kind of person you are.

There ain't nothing from the outside that can lick any of us.

I've learnt from my life experience.

From every life experience, fighting experience, I took the right lessons.

Everything in life is a fight. Everybody wants this microwavable life, and it doesn't work like that. I'm here to say, 'See what I went through? Look at me now.'

Everything that happens in your life is a lesson learned.

There's instances where you do everything right and you work hard and things don't work out. That's part of life, and it ends up being life lessons for some guys.

I didn't really want to write something about my life story. I've kind of had a pretty smooth-sailing journey.

I believe sometimes I make some mistakes. And I don't think they are life-threatening mistakes.

I'm a lifelong stutterer.

I was able to see the lights coming from China. If maybe I could go where the lights are I could find something to eat, that's why I escaped.

I used to think it was good to kind of work within your limitations.

I don't know what it will bring, but definitely it's a nice feeling to know I can drive an F1 car after such a difficult period and having my limitations.

I am creative with both my limitations and my sense that everything is possible.

If I ever end up on the worst-dressed list, it's not going to make me fall apart.

Sometimes you have to look at a start and say, 'Nothing is wrong.' Even when you get lit up, you still have to say 'Nothing is wrong.'

I would rather have not gone through any of the litigation that I've had to go through.

You learn about people when they do go through a little bit of adversity.

When I was a little girl, my imagination was what helped me deal with some sort of negative elements in my childhood.

Since we had little money and few documents, we had nothing.

We couldn't get the car back until well after the end of the race and we had very little time for repairs.

I didn't have much of a childhood, but that's O.K. I have a livelihood.

This is Liverpool, we will always come back when it's tough.

Since I was probably eight years old, just about everyday, all the way until I was 14 or 15 years old, just about everyday my mom and my stepdad would roll around in the living room fighting.