Quotes About Adversity

When I played and got abused by another player, called a 'black so and so,' I always said 'that's out of order' but I tried to ignore it. I'd be thinking: 'You're not going to bring me down to that level.' But there were occasions when something was said and the next tackle went in a lot firmer.

CIA has learned some tough lessons, especially when asked to tackle missions that fall outside our expertise.

Not every game is going to be perfect. Not every game is going to be an interception or two or a big-bang tackle, so to say.

It was my Old Trafford debut and it lasted about 60 minutes and my left leg and left ankle sort of gave way on me from a tackle from behind.

If your ankle is damaged and you get another heavy tackle on it the pain is always with you.

Now listen lads, I'm not happy with our tackling. We're hurting them but they keep getting up.

I believe in tackling things you're afraid of.

I've fought tactical fights in a gym, but never in a fight before.

I had my own battle tactics.

You play in different situations and conditions, and you have to come up with new solutions for the problems. It has made me a more rounded player, who can handle different tactics and positions.

There's nothing wrong with struggle. Anytime I look back at a difficult phase of my life and see what grew out of it - the creative survival tactics - I think that the good is way better than the bad.

The thing I learnt the most from the Kovalev fight, in all my other fights, when I hurt my opponent I was composed, but because this was such a big fight, I lost my cool, I started fighting with emotion instead of using my common sense and tactics to break him down.

There were times I'd be nervous walking home from elementary school, thinking, 'If that red tag from the power company saying our lights are turned off is on the door handle, I don't know what I'll do.'

I was born illegitimately and almost immediately, as I understand it, placed in an orphanage. So my very earliest memories were in an orphanage. It was the tag end of the Great Depression when I was born. People were desperately poor.

I would hang out with my friends, and they would make me sing in exchange for food. I'd tag along just so I could eat. Then we would go to the park, and I'd sleep there with other homeless kids.

I never put a 'last one' tag on my fights because you never know.

If you play this game long enough, you're going to get your tail kicked at least once.

Life is about how much you can take and keep fighting, how much you can suffer and keep moving forward.

Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.

When adversity strikes, that's when you have to be the most calm. Take a step back, stay strong, stay grounded and press on.

In 1978, I had a near-fatal car accident in the Bahamas. There was a point when I could have lost my right arm - but it was good because it forced me to slow down and take a break.

Sometimes you climb the mountain, and you fall and fail. Maybe there is a different path that will take you up. Sometimes a different mountain.

I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You've got to just stand there and take it.

You've got to take the bitter with the sour.