Quotes About Adversity

I think most people, no matter what their situation, manage to find joy and comfort in their daily lives. I also think things fall apart.

We got such abuse on a daily basis. They were trying to harden us to the reality of the rock'n'roll world but how could we possibly know this wasn't the way it was supposed to be?

I only knew about daily life. It was said, well, it isn't everybody's daily life. That is why I started.

My parents getting divorced gave me the opportunity to play for my granddad and to meet my wife. I fell in the draft but I ended up in Dallas.

I think some guys are able to take more damage, some guys are more resilient than others.

I don't really know how strong someone is if they're compelled to a life of violence. Is that strong? No. That's damaged.

I have an abdominal hernia which I tore and had operated on, and it's not the easiest thing in the world to get over. I'm gonna go on down the road, but hopefully I can get over the damn thing.

I was bullied about everything, from the way I looked to the fact that my father had been a dancer.

I learned to work on a computer years before I was placed under house arrest. Fortunately I had two laptops when I was under house arrest - one an Apple and one a different operating system. I was very proud of that because I know how to use both systems.

I know firsthand how critical support systems are.

My dad grew up in a mud hut and studied by candlelight. He was 14 when he got a scholarship to Russia. He was super clever - the cleverest person. He landed in 5ft of snow, and was alone at 14, studying science and engineering. He didn't have a bed, and he slept on a table.

The big problem that UWink had was we were essentially building tablets because they hadn't been invented yet. That drove up the cost a lot.

I take 18 to 19 tablets a day, plus an injection every other day. I get side-effects from some of the medication that aren't ideal. Plus, I hate having to inject myself. It's painful and it creates a few dramas.

My career suffered massively because I had a reputation for being a very tabloid person.

I live my life with positivity, so even if there was a low, I'd find a positive in the situation. It's how I am with everything in life. With acting, I don't love the celebrity side of it and the tabloids, but at the end of the day, I love what I do so much, it overrides all that.

If you grew up the same way I grew up, don't listen to what certain tabloids want to tell you. They just want to steal your joy. They just want to pull you down.

I broke my finger in a stunt in a very not-too-romantic way. I was just trying to tackle someone, and I just flicked his forearm and then screamed in pain.

In Australia, we've always been a country that runs the ball right up the middle on the fifth tackle. We've never seen a challenge we didn't like, and we've certainly never run from one.

If you went and found my draft bio, I wasn't supposed to play left tackle, and I sure as hell wasn't supposed to play it for 12 years.

I didn't go out looking for negative characters; I went out looking for people who have a struggle and a fight to tackle. That's what interests me.

Nobody likes it when people dribble past them, me included, but I can't tackle.

As a writer, I challenge myself not to tell the same story - to tackle different characters with different issues.

I hurt my left knee playing left tackle. I had surgery on my right knee.

I want stories that tackle things.