Quotes About Adversity

People are like tea bags–they never know their own strength until they get into hot water.

As a professional athlete a lot is going to be said about you - but I just try to move forward and try to achieve my goals.

As a professional athlete, I've been booed by 18,000 people.

When all you've done is work toward being a professional athlete, and then you injure yourself, and you know that you're going to be out for a while, it's gut-wrenching. It almost feels like your life is over because that's all you've ever worked for.

In professional football, there are always going to be critics.

I was fighting a war on two fronts. I was fighting the best defenses in professional football and I was fighting the media. At that level you just cannot do that. You just cannot do it. I couldn't stop it, and I didn't try to stop it.

Even if you sulk after a failure, you have to put on that exterior that you are fine. You could be going through a series of nonsense in your personal life or failure in your professional life, but you have to put on that exterior.

If things are just gliding along easily and there's no real obstacles or hurdles, those typically aren't my most productive times, personally or professionally.

I would never think of crying about any loss of an office, because that's always a possibility, and if you're professional, then you deal with it professionally.

The truth is that we have all gone through failure. I have personally as well as professionally experienced failure.

There's been times when it has been tough professionally.

If you play professionally, you can expect to go broke at some point.

My parents were not professionals. They were products of the Depression.

I've had people break into profiles on my Internet; they got into my accounts. This was at the beginning of my career. There is a fair bit of alarm when something like that happens. It definitely bothered me a lot at the time. But you move on from these things.

It's so weird, like, it's not like Gamergate is the only bad thing to happen to me. I've been homeless before, I've had to come through other stuff. A profoundly abusive childhood, but at least that stuff feels like I got to move on from it, that stuff is in the past.

Real style is not having a program - it's how one behaves in a crisis.

A crash is when your competitor's program dies. When your program dies, it is an 'idiosyncrasy'.

They killed my character off and as God would have it, just when they told me I would never work again, I got cast in a little program called Roots, and as they would say, the rest is history.

Some people are genetically programmed to be difficult.

There's no perfect program. And everyone deals with stuff. You know, when you're Ohio State or some of these other big-time programs, stuff becomes a major deal.

In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up - or else we all go down.

You don't get the good without the bad, but you really do have to see it all in order to make progress.

All my life, the naysayers have told me that I can't win because I'm a progressive... because I'm a woman... even because I'm a lesbian.

I never doubted my football, it's just a lot of things happened that prohibited me from playing.