Quotes About Adversity

Baseball fans are collectively the '10th man' and needed most when team performance is shaky. When mistakes are made, there's no need to heckle your team - that's what the other side is for!

I'm from Colombia, and we've been through a lot of hard situations.

People in Colorado are resilient.

I loved playing football. In this particular match the ball happened to hit my right eye, the only one which I could see light and colour with.

Being in combat is not unending high-five moments.

My 15 years of freedom have been harder than all of my death row years combined.

To have a comeback, you have to have a setback.

I have watched a documentary on Caster Semenya. I am inspired by how she made a comeback.

As a comedian, you have everything working against you.

How do I comfort myself? Well, I say, 'Life is just like that.'

If there's comfort involved, it's probably not for me.

You love the game, but it's hard to do the things you do when you're feeling like you're a leg down all the time, literally. Or you're always beat up, even coming into the season. So it's just not as fun when you're down, and you got to work your way up. And you can't really get there because you're so beat up.

If I saw negative comments I tried to look past them.

I get really tired of all the comments saying I should change my approach.

I would never become a big, big model in the commercial sense because I was such a type; you couldn't use me in everything.

People who haven't done commercials, don't appreciate how hard it is.

I commit to the controllables. That's one of the things I live by.

We can help companies committed to addressing global challenges such as climate change.

We all have a common enemy, and it is evil.

I fled communism as a child. That's an experience that can shape you forever.

I lived under the Nazis and under the Communists.

I grew up pretty poor - not poor compared with people in India or Africa who are really poor, but poor enough so that the worry about money really cast a pall over your life a lot of the time.

Nothing compares to when you are in coma and you hear voices and think you are dying. Then you come out of the coma and hear more voices saying you will not walk, not play sports, not be normal. And all the time your mind is fighting back saying, you will be strong, you will fight.

It's not easy when you lose Flamini, Hleb, Senderos, Gilberto, and Lehmann. When you lose all these players - and Flamini, for me, was the best player last year - it's really difficult to compete against Chelsea, Man United, or Liverpool.