Quotes About Adversity

In judo, you get your arm broke. You get choked. You can tear your ACL.

They'll take everything, even your tears.

I'm a big believer in the idea that while we are the sum of our tears, we are also the product of our choices in how we deal with those tears.

I went through a lot of hard times. I went through a lot of struggle. A few times, I was in tears. It brought me to my knees just about.

I have shed many tears of pain and indignation.

But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example.

I've had to walk through a lot of my tears.

I never wanted to do anything but get into show biz. But believe me, success didn't come overnight. And I shed a lot of tears - like in school, when all the other kids in class made fun of me. They just hated me because I could sing and dance.

There was a kid that used to pick on me... he used to drop my food and beat me up in little corners. Nothing serious, but tease me. I remember knocking his food out of his hand one time when he in the middle of explaining something to his friends, and they all laughed, so I thought that was pretty nice. 'Well, there you go buddy.'

I was teased horribly as a child and beaten up a lot.

Everybody either wanted to take care of me or push me around, you know? I was teased a lot, sure I was, of course. Fourth grade, fifth grade, sixth grade, everybody was taking their spurts except me. I was not growing up.

Being named Michael Jordan - I think growing up playing sports and having a name like Michael Jordan - and I was extremely competitive - I used to get teased a lot. But it made me want to strive for greatness and be able to compete at whatever I decided to do.

I paid for my name a lot when I was growing up because other kids teased me.

I was definitely teased and bullied in my junior school.

The real technical problems came because people working on the project didn't really follow my proposal at all, but set out to do other things instead of making a laser.

Technical problems are like gremlins. They come and go.

As a child, I played on the road against bigger players. Due to my technical skills, I've always got by.

I was 17 and living on the streets. I had the education of technically an eighth-grader, but in reality, I had never had a formal education.

Living by yourself, technically by yourself, at the age of 16 is not easy to do.

I played international football for England, and in many games, we were technically inferior to the opposition.

I guess, technically, I went to a New York City high school, but I wouldn't call myself a New York City kid. But I've played against city kids all my life. So that kind of instills something in you.

One of my favorite things when I fight, even when I used to grapple and do jiu-jitsu, I would face opponents who were better than me technically but I would just stay on them and be as relentless and resilient as possible and eventually the gap would get a little bit closer and a little bit closer and a little bit closer.

Once I became number one, I started working even harder. I changed my technique, but injuries started creeping in - it was a big mistake, as I was doing something right to get to that spot in the first place.

This is one technique - going into my shell - that has helped me get over my disappointments.