Quotes About Adversity

I grew up knowing only war, so for me, it was the way things were. It wasn't pleasant by any means.

You cannot please everybody. You keep marching forward.

I took a lot of bad things after Athens. I just learnt to deal with it. The problem was beforehand I had this feeling where I was trying to please everybody - I wanted everybody to like me.

I've learnt so much over time and with the experience that I've gained. You can't please everyone.

You can't please everyone... you win some you lose some!

My childhood was full of shocks and alarums, and I had to work a long time to make a life that pleases me.

I am not fearless. I get scared plenty. But I have also learned how to channel that emotion to sharpen me.

There are plenty of people who have legs who are way more disabled than me.

I've boxed many people in their own backyard plenty of times - in China, I boxed a Chinese girl in the final of the world championships, and I've boxed Russians before in their home nation as well.

I grew up in an area of inner-city Liverpool. There were plenty of opportunities but also plenty of challenges - you could go down the right or wrong path, depending on one moment.

I've had plenty of bad breaks you know.

Relegation has happened to plenty of players who were bigger names than me.

Even when I had plenty money it was still a struggle.

There are a lot of reasons why guys can miss - it isn't always just black and white - but you just have to learn to move on from it. That's just the approach I take. I've missed plenty of kicks before.

I do like to think I'm a bit of a fighter. There have been plenty of times when I have felt like not getting out of bed. Things do hurt me, but I dust myself off and get on with it.

For me, the path of failure exceeded by far the joys of success. My plight was hopeless.

In order to have a plot, you have to have a conflict, something bad has to happen.

People ask me why I can still smile on the pitch when we're losing. I tell them that if you lose your smile and stop being happy, you should find yourself a plot in the graveyard.

I don't even like to talk about it. I hated being a number and not merely because I was a very small one. I let them bellow at me for just as long as it took me to find enough pluck to bellow back at them.

I didn't have indoor plumbing. I'd go to school dirty. I didn't have lunches.

Ever since I took the plunge into active politics, I faced a fair amount of attacks and criticism from political rivals, and I had learnt to take it with a pinch of salt.

The Mojave Desert was plus 50. Now, I've cooked duck eggs at 50 degrees celsius. You can imagine what it's like on a bike.

Obviously, that off-the-ice battle I went through, plus injuries I came back from, I always felt the fans are really knowledgeable there and respected and appreciated guys that gave whatever they had and guys that fought through things.

Cutting one side of your head for a few months is not a big deal compared with what other people have to deal with in the world. Plus, hair grows back.