Quotes About Adversity

It will not matter, the pressure I always had it, I was mediated early, I learned to handle it, I got used to it and it's part of my environment.

Pressure doesn't intimidate me. I take it as a challenge.

There's a lot more pressure on me at United. There are people out there trying to shoot you down.

I had nerve damage. It was going to lead to amputation. I had high blood pressure, high cholesterol.

When there's pressure, I believe people will break under it or a diamond will be created.

Under so much pressure and the situation that I was in, that was the personality that came across with me.

I do really well under pressure.

I won't pretend that being booted out the cabinet wasn't painful.

My natural disposition is pretty joyful, but you know, I have bad days and sad moments like anybody else.

When people tell you you're on the brink of death, you've got to dig pretty deep to get it together.

If I can make myself laugh about something that I should be crying about, that's pretty good.

For whatever reason, I'm pretty good with pressure. I kinda just flip it over and think of it as positive.

For the first five years of my life, things felt pretty good. A lot went wrong after that, family-wise.

I'm pretty good at playing with foot injuries.

I love adversity. It really reveals people, and I think I've handled it pretty good.

I mean, defending isolations is easy, but it's hard at the same time. I think I'm a pretty good defender, but when you go against guys that can make tough shots, it makes you feel so bad, like, 'Oh, man, these guys just made a tough shot on me.'

As a dancer, you get trained to carry on no matter what happens. You have to stay professional.

When my mother died when I was 15, it felt like the end of my dreams of becoming a dancer - I had a sister and a brother and we had to pull together to look after the house and my father.

At Treviso, my entire career was in danger; I lost all self-esteem and confidence.

When the danger is great, one must not run away.

To be against something or someone, it's a dangerous thing.

When I dropped Daniel Cormier I definitely tried to finish him off.

I don't think comedy necessarily comes from a dark place. But I do think what a lot of us have in common is that, growing up, being funny was a coping mechanism.

Showing just the dark side doesn't always work. The important thing is to show what we can learn from dark things, what good we find there.