Quotes About Adversity

When boxers are in the ring, they're simple. It's when the fight is over, that's when the other fight, the real fight, begins. That's the problem.

In boxing you never know who you're going to face in ring.

Boxing never hurt me at all.

I first got into boxing when I was quite young. I was about 12 when I won my first boxing match.

People can dress it up however they want to, but boxing is life and death.

Football and boxing helped me immensely. Those sports helped me become dangerous.

I'm a boxer, and every fight could be my last. You just have to remember Michael Watson to know what boxing can do to you.

I've definitely changed as a person because of professional boxing.

I was a bad kid. I was a bad and good kid in and out of the boxing gym.

Boxing is by far one of the best things to happen to my life.

One of the reasons boxing is one of the greatest things to happen to my life is because it made me human again.

I always wanted to be a boy scout but was too poor. Couldn't do it.

I get hate mail. I get bad mail. People say they will boycott you or the team.

I've not had a career like Brady or Rodgers with all the Super Bowls and the incredible things they've done. But for me, the adversity made me who I am.

You can't just drive with no brakes and think that everything is going to go great, and the minute something goes bad, you fall apart.

Whether it's Alexander Brand or Sergey Kovalev, I approach every situation the same way.

I always felt like the UFC brass kind of had it out for me.

I've lived in 11 states, but I'm not an Army brat. My father couldn't hold a job, so every six months, we'd move.

I don't know if I'm brave.

You want to try to put on a brave face, but I think I'm learning that that's not the case.

I wish I were braver, although I try.

I think I learned I'm braver than I think I am.

In Brazil, I didn't have it easy growing up.

When I come to the United States, I came here illegally. I didn't know I was going to be a fighter. I just thought I was going to work landscaping for, I don't know, three, four years, then go back to Brazil and live my life.