Quotes About Adversity

Football means everything to me. It's been my life from four years old onwards. It's given me the best moments of my life and the lowest.

You have to have the lows in your life so you can deal with them.

I've always felt comfortable, but in football, there are lows.

It takes experience to get through your lows.

I don't dwell on the lows too long. I kind of put them away and just start fighting back.

My losses were based on things I did in training, and luck also plays out during the fight.

Maybe I've managed to keep my head above water through luck.

Over the years, I've had torrid luck with things going wrong.

Sometimes, we didn't have enough to eat. I'd go to school with no lunch money, and my school would have to provide it.

Look, any amount I make, somebody's going to be mad.

I'm not mad when people talk bad about me; that's the way it is.

Madrid always come back.

When something wrong happens in your life and you read someone else's story in the magazine, you definitely get inspired that if she can do it, then I can also do it.

If you read fashion magazines, and you couldn't afford something, or you were living outside London, you had to make it yourself.

Everything was magnificent so far, even if I knew my part of dramas.

That's the thing with football: you have some good games, you have some bad games but the main thing is that you go back, you recap and next week you're ready to fight again. That's the main thing.

Now that the sport has gone mainstream, there's a lot of money in fighting. It's always what I've loved to do.

I've gone on streaks where I haven't shot the ball well here, but I was always making up for it in other areas, so it wasn't as big. It's just a part of the game. I got to do better with it.

My mama whupped me away from the penitentiary.

I just really know how to manage adversity.

I wanted to make films, but the films being made in the 1990s were not my kind. I couldn't break in, and even if I did manage to get a foothold, I didn't know what I would make.

I took a lot from that Ronda fight. What that taught me was one - just how to manage my time.

I've had alopecia since I was 3, so quite a few years. I grew up with it, and it was always very manageable.

I've learned a lot about pain management.