Quotes About Adversity

I came from a background where we didn't have bread. I know what it's like to live with money and no money.

There were times when I couldn't even buy a loaf of bread.

It's tough to break into this business - now more so than ever.

I grew up in a place where books were very, very scarce, and I loved to read. I used to read the writing on my breakfast Ovaltine over and over again because it was in front of me, and I couldn't help but read anything that was in front of me.

I had six brothers, we used to fight for breakfast, for food. I'm not going to be scared by anyone with two arms, two legs and a heart.

There are so many situations when you feel like your heart is breaking. I keep those emotions pent up, so I can create stories around them and shape what I would say from another perspective.

Nothing's a break for me. Not even the breaks are breaks.

You learn a whole lot more about a person if they have bad breaks and all those kind of things.

I didn't get good breaks on TV.

Sometimes you get hit on the nose and nothing happens, then you get hit and something breaks.

A lot of tough stuff, tough breaks happen, but that's just the NBA. That's just the way it is.

It was very clear that I had breast cancer. From a man's perspective, I'm thinking, 'Why me?'

As long as I breathe, I attack.

If you can't breathe, you can't do nothing.

In other sports, you get to breathe if you make a mistake.

When you are on the court and a guy shanks a ball off the line, and I think it's the end of the world, then I think about my brother being in a bed for three straight weeks not able to breathe on his own, and it doesn't seem as bad.

Losing exposes character, and winning breeds it.

Brexit will not be easy.

There were many batsmen who were very difficult to bowl at. Brian Lara was probably at the top.

You got to look on the bright side, even if there ain't one.

If the business were a play, Act One is, 'Woohoo, bright and bushy-tailed. We're going to make something great!' Act Two is, 'We're six months behind on back-end development.'

I always know how to look at the bright side because there's been a lot of dark.

There's not always bright lights. Sometimes you have to go through dark tunnels to be able to get to the success.

I'm not the best. I'm not the brightest, but we all have our problems.