Quotes About Adversity

I've always been good at refocusing my attention away from something that was bringing me down.

The Lord has a way of working in our lives, and sometimes he brings us down low to bring new values back to our life.

I hope Gamboa brings the best out of me so that people can see that I'm not just a power puncher.

What brings people down is the same thing over and over.

It doesn't matter how big of a company you have: I always tell people that you are one job away from being broke. And if you don't live that way, you'll be broke.

I broke both legs, which is why I ended up lying in bed for three months. It was six months before I could walk on one leg.

I broke my right ankle. Four ribs. One rib went into my liver. My spleen. My back in two places.

I broke my leg is all I did. I didn't break my brain.

I'm fine, except, you know, I broke my pelvis. And that's not much fun.

Me and Iggor come from poor upbringings. We're broke, never had any money.

If you've broken the eggs, you should make the omelette.

The moment when I broke my leg, when I realized my leg was broken, I thought my career was over.

I came from a broken family.

I've broken probably every major bone in my body.

You find out what you are made of when you have a broken heart. If it happens early and often, all the better.

I'm from Brooklyn. I grew up very poor- seven people, four rooms. My dad had no education.

I was 5 when I got the speech about how I would have to work harder and longer than everyone else because I was brown.

I learned a lot during the Matt Brown fight.

I've learned to brush off many things.

When roles that mattered to me started drying up, I took to the brush and camera to connect with myself and the world.

The reason why I love people, and writing about them, is because they don't always respond with hate and anger. If they did I wouldn't have a story to tell. Who wants to know about someone who was brutalised and became brutal? I'm interested in the exceptions.

I know how hard it is to come back from a brutal KO.

This game can be brutal. As soon as you get comfortable, it bites you. You have to stay on it all the time.

You're always going to have a Dez Bryant somewhere in the league, somebody who has to go through some off-the-field problems in order to reach his potential.