Quotes About Adversity

I can see me continuing to make the best music I can, and let the chips fall where they may.

I'm continuing to figure it out every single year: Life is a challenge, and the ones that succeed in life are the tough-minded ones that are not willing to accept failure.

I can't change me and I can't change other people's thinking. All I can do is continuously get better. So if I'm doing that, even if somebody doesn't like me or respect me, I don't care.

I didn't have a big-time contract out of college like most athletes. In fact I had no contract at all.

I play the same, contract or no contract, because trade-talk is part of basketball.

Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.

I try not to think about the things I can't control.

There's so many things you can't account for that can happen during each race. I just focus on controlling what I can.

My family is used to all manner of controversy.

I am used to controversies.

I think I was born for controversies.

I lost to Lennox Lewis in a very controversial decision.

Yeah, I am controversy's favourite child. But I am of the opinion that I come back stronger after every controversy.

As far as controversies are concerned, as an actor for the first time when there was something written about me I was affected. But then I decided that this is part of my profession.

Because I didn't have a Mum - she died when I was a baby - my Dad was told by people in authority that it was best for me to go to a convent school.

I converted a problem into an opportunity.

There are so many things that can happen to us in life where you think, 'I can't cope. I can't deal with it,' but you probably can.

People ask, how do you cope, and all I can say is that you do.

We are all different. We all have different circumstances, and you have to cope with whatever it is, try not to dwell on things.

We can't be as good as we'd want to, so the question then becomes, how do we cope with our own badness?

There will always be a lot of pressure to cope with.

When life gave me tough situations, acting helped me cope with those situations.

I feel like I didn't really know how to cope with not playing well.

I feel I cope with pressure quite well.