Quotes About Adversity

Everyone would like the world always to be in bubble times. But that doesn't happen.

I guess there's a part of me that loves institutionalism. And borstal is tailor-made for you to buck against. It was perfect.

It's on my bucket list, to get in a real fight.

I don't buy into this, 'Oh, poor us. We've got tough budget problems.'

We play sometimes against teams with more individual quality than us, better players, bigger budgets, whatever, but we try to play our football. We don't try to change too much in our philosophy, in our model.

Teams with limited budgets will always find times tough and results won't always go your way.

Jamie-Lynn Sigler

I think as an away team, if you like that type of atmosphere where everybody's against you, you know it's going to be just you and your guys there for three hours trying to get a win. When you can get a win in that environment, I think it builds great character.

You can look back on a lot of things and things that could have been changed, but ultimately those things make you who you are. It builds character. I'm OK with that.

I've had a good run. I've built a lot of things that work and a lot of things that didn't work.

Racism built me into a person that was set up to be self-destructive.

I'd go at anyone. I took all of my brothers' bull. It made me who I am.

Since I was growing up, I was always the younger one playing with older guys. They called me Young Bull and that just stuck.

You are going to fail in sport, you are going to win sometimes, you are going to be criticised sometimes, you are going to be applauded - so it gives you... well, it's certainly given me anyway, those real-life lessons that make you bulletproof.

I'm not afraid of IED's, bullets, mortars.

When you are being bullied a long way from home, when you face that challenge, that is where you find out a lot about yourself.

I was never bullied at school.

I would say that no one in this world can say that they've never been bullied or have violence against them.

I was bullied at school.

I was bullied a lot as a kid.

In school, I would run away whenever there was trouble, as I would get bullied a lot.

I was not popular. I was the kid in school that was bullied.

I was bullied at school, so I didn't much like it.

I really was bullied badly in school.