Quotes About Adversity

When I'm up against a wall, that's when Billy Mays performs best.

Sometimes you'd come up against a brick wall... or sometimes you go into a fill and you'd know halfway through it was going to be disastrous.

And we... right from moment one, we were always kinda up against the wall a little bit when it came to the future of the show. There were always rumors.

Before I was humiliated I was like a stone that lies in deep mud, and he who is mighty came and in his compassion raised me up and exalted me very high and placed me on the top of the wall.

I tend to be attracted to characters who are up against a wall with very few alternatives. And the film then becomes an examination of how they cope with very few options. And that's, I guess, what interests me in terms of human behavior.

Having hit a wall, the next logical step is not to bang our heads against it.

There's nothing I've done that I feel a lot of regret over because I stuck to my guns, even when it got uncomfortable - and it will get uncomfortable because you're going up against the wall.

We may be up against a stone wall, but we don't have to bloody our heads against it unless we choose to.

At one point, I had 10 UFC fights under my belt. But at the same time, I had no money and no house to live in.

Ben Henderson is a unique challenge.

I've always gotten doubled. Coming off the bench, people try to eliminate bench scorers, so that's been my experience for years now. You just find ways to beat it.

If you think that I got to come off the bench, then I am going to put you in a position to try to prove you wrong. Then after a while, it was kind of fun, and over the years it was my makeup.

I married my best friend when I was 23, but when I realized I wanted to move to L.A. to follow my dreams, we separated and eventually divorced.

That's all we're looking to do, make great fights, baby. That's it. And may the best man win.

For me, I just began, eventually, to embrace what I had. This is what I have to deal with and, not just deal with, but this is what I have to share, and how can I do that the best way.

I'm a guy that learns from making mistakes. Sometimes that's not the best way to learn, but that's how I learn.

I really like to face great attackers, to be able to raise my level and train in the best way. That is what makes you improve and grow every day.

Get on with your life and learn to become a better man and that's the way I live my life.

One emerges as a better person after going through the wringer.

Not having my father around has made me a better person.

When I came over, there was a lot of criticism that I was too young to go to England. I just wanted to take that experience and be a better player.

I seem to get the best out of myself when the pressure's on. My senses are heightened. I feel sharper. I do better things.

When I think of what has happened in a larger sense, beyond myself, then I would not change anything.

I never had a single big break - because few do online.