Quotes About Adversity

Loads of people wrote me off.

When I was locked up, I went through a big personal change with my attitude and spiritual, everything. I went through some major changes locked up.

I'm learning to deal with my loneliness because then nobody can muck me around any more.

I grew up and learnt to hold my own. My mum was doing two people's jobs. It makes you grow up early. There's less people to talk to, less close people, innit? You're going to end up being lonely because you think a bit more.

Nothing's ever easy as long as you go on living.

We all deal with failure. If you're lucky to have a long career, it's part of the experience.

Any great, long career has at least one flameout in it.

Everyone wants to fight me. It's a long list.

If you aren't a loser, you fight; you continue to fight, believe.

I seem to play a lot of losers.

If you want to be ahead of a team that never loses, that's not easy.

From my three loses in my entire career I've always learned from them and came back stronger.

Often, when a player loses his starting place, he is a little left out.

I'm allergic to losing.

George H. W. Bush

Many people have asked me how I feel about losing my job.

I hate losing. I hate getting beat. I'm not used to it.

It's pretty tough to play some good footy when your team is always losing.

Every fight and every loss taught me something.

We all understand loss. It's about what you do with that.

I've been an NBA player, and a black man, for a long time, and I know how to take a loss.

When I competed in jiu-jitsu and judo, I had losses. We never accept to lose, but we learn that it's not the end of the world. It's not.

We all take losses and it's about getting up and coming back.

Obviously, you grow with mistakes and losses, you grow more.