Quotes About Adversity

I lost all my investments after everything crashed in 2001. Prior to that, I'd been living off the interest on my investments, which was very healthy because it allowed frequent travel, and I had a lovely apartment.

Physically my brain is in great shape. My motor functions are fine, but I think going through the whole ordeal... coming pretty close to death, may have affected my priorities.

I did almost a year in prison, a year in prison, just because my name is Foxy Brown.

None of my peers avoided prison. None of 'em.

I couldn't afford to get sick in prison. My sickle cell is no joke, so I couldn't eat poorly or not exercise. And everything in jail is designed to do the exact opposite.

As an independent person, I find it difficult being dependent for everything, for even my food and medicine, to the prison authorities. I have had to fight through the courts for everything, including even physiotherapy, which is my right under the jail manual.

I grew up in a family where my brother was in prison. My father was in prison.

It was very difficult when I was young because there are problems with violence, gangs, guns, drugs - a criminal life. I had friends that choose a criminal life. Some of them are in prison, and some of them are dead. They chose the bad way.

If it wasn't for prison, I was in a bad way.

People always think about what prison is. What prison really is - it's not a physical challenge, it's mental.

It's always crude to link Dickens back to the blacking factory where he was sent to work aged 12 when his father was imprisoned in Marshalsea Prison for bad debt, but it was obviously a huge part of him.

I've never been in prison. I've been in jail a lot. But I've never actually been sentenced to anything.

I wrote, exercised, ate healthy, and responded to life in prison very well.

Going to prison actually helped save my life, I believe.

No one wants to be sent to prison, including me.

After I won but then lost my world title I ended up with no money. Then my dad died in prison.

I had to grow up in prison for something I did not do.

I had a lot of friends who were also football players. Some of them ended up in prison, some of them had injuries. I think of my group of friends, I am the only one who is a professional footballer.

My biggest fear growing up was that I would end up in prison. That was the fate of growing numbers of my peers.

It's a long story, my life, growing up with my dad, my mom when she died, everything. I had bad moments in my life, my dad going to prison, I had nothing, and that's where I got my motivation.

I couldn't get on a 'Source' cover 'til I went to prison.

I could have ended up in a gang or in prison because Harlesden is real rough and I was always a naughty boy. That's how I got into boxing.

I thought, 'This is not going to drag me down, this is going to make me a better man.' So I came out of prison a man with a plan, determined to set up a business importing Italian ingredients.

When I grew up, my auntie was in prison.