Quotes About Adversity

My father died when I was 9 years old. The miserable condition of my family at that time is beyond description. My family, solitary and without influence, became at once the target of much insult and abuse.

The haters and the trolls have always used me as an excuse to make fun of something that is out of the ordinary, something that doesn't necessarily make sense to them. For whatever reason, I have always been a target that people love to attack.

I know my game is about trying to get past players and I know that if a bad tackle is coming my way, I have to jump or push my body out in front, but this is football. If they try to foul and target me, then I'm doing something good.

Photographers and people do try to take advantage of you. You just have to stand your ground and prove you're not an easy target.

If you're big at school, you've really got two choices. You're going to be a target. If you go to school, and you're me, you go, 'Right - I'm just going to make myself a bigger target. My confidence, it will terrify them.' That's how I felt in school.

I was very awkward as a kid. I was a square trying to fit into a circle and it never worked for me. The harder I tried, the harder I fell. For some reason I was a real target and I got beat up and called names.

I think everyone at school experiences some form of bullying. With kids at school, it can be anything - it can be your shoes or the wrong bag or anything. If you are big like I am, you are always going to be a target. So I decided at school to make myself an even bigger target, if you like: to make myself as big as I could be.

It's not for me to determine what a country artist has in common with a hip-hop artist. You go for those with long-lasting careers. And that's what I've had as my target all my life.

I was small growing up, and to make matters worse, I wore glasses, and my mother dressed me in attention-getting outfits. I was a target of bullies.

Being at NDSU and winning national championships, everyone's gunning for you. You got a big target on your back, and we had to be ready to go week in and week out. I think playing for a program like that, everyone's going to give you their best shot, and we embrace that.

For sure, I definitely feel like there's a target on my back.

Once you are first in the East, one of the top teams in the league, you have a target on your back every night.

The more you target me, the more fun it is for me.

I'm a target on and off the court. I've done some things I regret. But being a target is rough.

I think that anybody that is interesting and takes risks is always going to be a target.

The good thing about having the target on my back is that I am a very hard target to hit.

I suffered during the military intervention of May 27, 1960, and then again on March 12, 1971 and again on September 12, 1980, and I was targeted February 28, 1997. My respect for the military aside, I have always been against interventions.

We are targeted when humor is not taken in the right spirit, but that's a part and parcel of this profession.

I've been targeted since I was 17, 18, 19.

You don't go to tarot readers or psychics when everything's going well. It's always evidence of rock-bottom.

I think after overcoming breast cancer, you sort of become fearless and somehow going up to your boss to talk about a possible promotion doesn't seem like such a daunting task anymore.

The prizes go to those who meet emergencies successfully. And the way to meet emergencies is to do each daily task the best we can.

My task is becoming more and more delicate, while the difficulties increase constantly.

I feel like when the task is more difficult for me it's more exciting.