Quotes About Adversity

One game is never going to define a player.

One play don't define a game.

You can't let games define who you are and your character as a player.

I'm kind of used to people trying to define me or, you know, lying about me.

Courage? Well, that's a difficult quality to define. If a man has never known fear can you call him courageous?

Every day, we read about athletes who let their sport define them.

You should not be defined by one bad performance.

Every bad thing that's happened to me has defined me, has shaped, has moulded me.

When you're a leader at any level of any scale, leaders are defined at times of crisis.

Legacies are defined not by what happened to you or how it happened. It's how you pick yourself back up and you continue to fight each and every day.

Growing up and being bullied, it's not a sad story for me. It's defined me and what made me so strong.

You come up against challenges in life, and it's how you deal with them that defines you.

When I'm told absolutely no, it's a definite maybe.

I definitely have a chip on my shoulder after having transfered to Division I-AA.

I didn't come from a combat sports background where I had a real definitive background in anything to fall back onto.

I was born with legs, but they were so deformed.

I think everybody gets bullied in their own way. Even athletes probably get it from their parents. To a degree everybody gets bullied.

Everyone in Hollywood who is successful becomes less successful at some point. I'm just trying to delay that fall for as long as I can.

All the projects that I am part of get delayed for reasons beyond my control!

It's hard enough to celebrate being Asian in normal times. But now, when the whole world is kind of coming down, with all this rhetoric and people getting attacked on the street, you really need to deliberately try to celebrate Asian-ness.

I feel I've been deliberately sidelined by the mainstream filmmakers, but I don't let that bother me. If I start thinking about that, I'll lose focus on what I need to do and have to do.

If anybody had a reason to become a delinquent, to become a criminal, to be angry at the man, to be angry at the white man, to be angry at America, it's my dad, but he did not feel that way at all.

Everybody has their demons; everyone has their challenges.

Everyone has got demons and stuff they're dealing with.