Quotes About Adversity

Everyone wants to beat Manchester United, but that's something that we are used to coping with.

My mom's coping mechanism was to be strong and resilient. She is very compassionate and nonjudgmental.

I think when you're coping with grimness perhaps you do get sillier and more escapist in what you want to see at the theatre.

There are a lot of battles to face, and if I didn't have that religious core - that base to turn to - I would be truly lost.

You can never get complacent because a loss is always around the corner.

I always felt like I needed to be backed up in a corner to push myself.

If you put people in a corner, you see what their character really is.

You back me into a corner, I'm not going to lay down and die. I've been down that road too many years in my life.

When things get you in the corner, and it feels like you can't go on, you can fight back. You're never out of the fight.

If you put us in a difficult corner, we will stand our ground - that is the kind of country we are.

When I don't feel that I'm good enough, I put myself in a corner.

Listen, there's always a pitfall around the corner somewhere. You know it's coming, you don't know when it's going to come.

No, I never felt cornered because I was not a big director's son or a star's son.

I know I've cut corners in every single fight I've had because I've used my ability to get through.

It is not good thinking - either at the corporate level or at the personal level - to believe you can simply walk away from your circumstances.

I've been around the bend in corporations.

Our mom was a super strident, capable, and strong individual. I think because she was a military wife in the Marine Corps, she had to push back the things that she believed, and she had to really scrape and fight to have her space.

Cancer is something that can happen to anyone, like a sportsperson who is eating right and doing his bit correctly. Cancer really takes your life away.

People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of compensatory excesses.

We must fight against negativeness - especially bureaucracy, corruption and wastefulness.

My own belief is that people can come back from anything. It doesn't mean that it won't come at a huge cost.

Any time you have change, it costs somebody. Somebody is a loser.

I never felt bright enough. I never felt confident. I felt that kid coming out of the council estate, like I was never good enough.

I've been told to go back to my country so many times, I can't even count.