Quotes About Adversity

I was bullied from fifth grade on. They started making fun of me because my mom was in a wheelchair, then they started making fun of me because I was poor and then it evolved to my size.

I just wanted to try and overcome my condition, with a lot of people telling me I couldn't do things and the only thing I could do was sit in my wheelchair and get bullied. Which is what I did.

I'm pretty physically vulnerable, just being in a wheelchair.

I never sat on a wheelchair during my recovery, never wanted to sit at all. Its also a bit psychological. I thought if I sat on a wheelchair once, itll remain stuck to me for a lifetime.

The toughest injury I've played with was I tore my planter fascia in my foot. As a receiver, as a skill position, anytime you get your wheels, so to speak, messed up, it's hard to play like you want to play.

Wheels come off? Get on with it. Cope. Survive.

I was at a birthday party and a truck backed up and the wheels ran over my chest. I lost part of my lung and my liver.

When all else fails, complicate matters.

When all else fails, dress beautifully and throw your food.

The easiest thing to do, whenever you fail, is to put yourself down by blaming your lack of ability for your misfortunes.

I've done it before, and I might do it whenever we need to as a big guy... I'll take it. A hard foul is part of the game, which is good.

Whenever I was upset by something in the papers, Jack always told me to be more tolerant, like a horse flicking away flies in the summer.

Whenever you're scared of something, don't let that define you. We all feel it, but step up.

I didn't have money to eat when I was 21. When I was short on cash, I would sometimes scam food from fast food places. I'd go into fast food chains and pretend I was from a movie studio, tell them they didn't send us the right order and demand they fix it. I've tried to make that right whenever I could.

I don't know what decisions they are going to take but if you take this Covid-19 situation aside, you want your family to be there with you to support you whenever you are on the tour.

Whenever there is a challenge, the key is not to get consumed by the challenge but actually to learn from it.

I have not lost an awful lot in my life, but the defeats have taught me more than the victories. Whenever I lose, I focus on the ability of my opponent and on the mistakes I made.

Whenever I lose, I focus on the ability of my opponent and on the mistakes I made.

Nothing in baseball can bring me down to the level where I was growing up in Pine Bluff, crying and broke. This is fun for me. Whenever you see me slumping, nah, I don't get upset; I'm all right.

Whenever I'm terrified of anything, I jump to it.

It's up to the UFC, but I'll fight whomever, whenever. Minus maybe Vegas.

Whenever you make the Super Bowl, so many things - you have to have the good general manager and the coach and the great players, and you have to have not too many injuries - everything, game plans and everything, has to fall very much your way for that to happen.

Whenever I have experienced failure in my career, those experiences have made me more mature as a player.

Whenever the occasion arose, he rose to the occasion.