Quotes About Adversity

My whole life I've worked. My whole life I've been counted out.

I've been counted out a lot of times, but always find a way to win.

Sometimes things go wrong in 'football. You can lose games, own-goals, you can buy the wrong players. But you do it in the right spirit and you do it honestly. That is not how it went wrong at Notts County.

I had a couple of car accidents when I was in my early 20s, and I used to have such a bad back.

I can't dwell on having a couple drops. It's going to happen - it's the NFL.

Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.

People have told me that I'm courageous, but I have seen greater courage.

My biggest strength is I'm courageous, or if I am afraid of something, I do it anyway. I do what I feel. It's nothing personal against anyone, so that courageousness has been very good to me.

It is difficult to constantly make courageous choices.

I think it's such a courageous thing to look around and say, 'If I don't get to be one of the lucky ones who are born with a family, how do I put that in my life?'

I enjoy hard golf courses.

At the end, I have to take the court I get scheduled on.

In high school, I could get beaten up all the time, or I could be something better. I became the court jester.

Reading a brief filled with ad hominem attacks is like listening to my kids fight, except that I have to wait until we're in the courtroom to tell the attacking lawyer what I think about it.

Ever since I can remember, I played better against bigger players on bigger courts.

While my cousins were gang-banging, I was trying to learn what the Internet was about.

Press coverage is nothing different. I mean, you win off the line, you win. It's that simple.

I have learned to avoid the coverage, good or bad - and it's mostly bad.

I have always been of the belief that whatever the conditions, you just crack on with it.

I broke my leg and cracked my pelvis.

One thing I take pride in is that I never cracked and stopped playing hard. There's something to be said for that, because life doesn't always throw the best situations at you.

The road can become a very lonely place. It's not what it's cracked up to be. Of course, it's what you make it.

There is always someone who is going to look for the cracks.

Having your adolescence at an all-male boarding school is just crap.