Quotes About Adversity

Before I became famous I had a very full life, and that gave me a lot to pick from. I always use everything. It always comes in handy. Working with animals... Well, I just enjoyed that. That was the most peaceful time.

Everything isn't always going to be peaches and cream. If it is, then it's fake.

I been through some junk. It ain't all been peaches and cream.

I was naturalized right before Pearl Harbor. Nine days later, I would have been classified as an enemy alien. I might have been sent to a camp.

When things become peculiar, frustrating and strange, I think it's a good time to start painting.

During a fight with Anderson Silva, I slipped on an imaginary banana peel.

If I had been censured every time I have run my ship, or fleets under my command, into great danger, I should have long ago been out of the Service and never in the House of Peers.

That was the lowest point in my entire life: The shellshock of not being in the NBA. All my peers are playing and I'm not because of boneheaded mistakes.

I wanted to build respect with my peers... I felt like I had done that throughout my WWE career. I really felt it and knew it was there when I got injured.

I couldn't write because my nervous system was so bad - I couldn't even use a pen.

One penalty miss doesn't change anything.

You pay a certain penalty for going your own way. A lot of people think you're nuts, and you're not as popular with girls as you should be.

Sometimes you'll go up against keepers like Casillas - the 'penalty killer,' as many of us call him. Other times, there's that one defender that, for 90 minutes, just destroys you. There is one in particular who will always stand out in my mind. Nemanja Vidic.

When I got married at the peak of my career, people told me that it's over for me. But I didn't let people's opinion penetrate my mind.

People say I've had a difficult time in life. I think I've had an exciting time in life.

I hear people say it affected your self-esteem to be segregated. It never affected mine.

I'm blind in my left eye. Contrary to what people say, it is not a glass eye, so I have to protect my eyes at all cost.

A lot of people say I'm bent, and I've heard it so many times that I've almost learned to accept it.

I've gotten a lot of people saying. 'That is awesome. You're so brave.' I hate when people say brave. I'm not brave. I'm just living my life. Why is that brave?

People say I'm difficult and sometimes that's a badge of honour.

I've had lots of people saying very nice things about the work. But I genuinely feel in the course of a writing career you're going to have people say very nice things and some not-so-nice things, and if at all possible you should try to ignore both.

I'm not bothered about what people say behind my back. I don't need to know about it. I believe in living my life and doing my work. God will give you success. And even if He doesn't, there's a lesson to be learnt.

When people say 'that's risky,' or when the odds are not in my favor, I'm more motivated than ever.

I never lost a game against Bayern Munich until Pep Guardiola arrived. He made them better.