Quotes About Adversity

No, the only things which do not bother me are the elements. I can overcome them without a fight. All one has to do to get the best of the elements is to stand pat and one will win.

I used the same hand to pat my back and to pick me up when I get shattered after losing out on a film due to reasons except your credibility to that role.

I have to thank Pat Curran for a second war. It was one of the hardest fights of my life.

I used to have really bad skin, and when I was younger, I had a lazy eye. I had to wear a patch and pink-rimmed glasses.

I remember, in middle school, I went to four different schools. That was a rough patch. But it's also what shaped me as a person.

The reality of football rests on that patch of green between 90 and 95 minutes. Whichever team is going to win has to do it on the field of play and by scoring more goals than the opposition.

Every team goes through a lean patch.

I'm that person at school who always had a cold and an eye patch and asthma.

A lot of people see the highs but not the lows. But I've always believed in my ability and that's why I got through my rough patch.

I'm the guy who come through a lot of hard patches. I've seen a lot of hardships.

I went through some pretty rough patches in my life, and I've come out of them a stronger, more inspired, and energetic person.

Every player goes through rough patches.

Every season has its bad patches.

I grew up in a broken home, working class. My paternal grandmother raised me and my brother; my father was with us, and my mother lived in Jersey.

If there is one thing you can count on in your life, it's that your path will not always be easy.

One door shuts, and another one opens, and you just kind of follow that path. My path has been a little curvy, but it is what it is. It's all good.

No matter what happens to us in life, we must get back on our feet and continue on the path.

I have learned to know God. I have recast my social belief... All my admirers are married; most of my friends are dead; and I stand with all the world before me, where to choose a path to make in it.

I could describe my career in two words: who knew. I was on the path to becoming a professional baseball player, but I got injured in college. When I decided to move out to L.A. to try acting, nobody was betting on me, not even my family. But it's always been that way for me; nothing has come easy.

Yet in all those cases I finally steeled myself to seize the opportunity, and find a way to muddle through and eventually conclude that I had, in fact, chosen the right path, as risky as it seemed at the time.

I could have gone down a very different path, but my parents would not let me give up football.

It's an odd feeling, knowing someone is trying to kill you. On the front line, you learn quickly that if you're in the path of a bullet, you will get hit.

I have had my share of flops and it's very discouraging. It's pathetic to be on that side.

When you get a bit older, life can start kicking and it was mainly the area I grew up in that began to lead me astray. I went down the wrong paths to some degree.