Quotes About Adversity

I think sometimes people project things on you, but I'm trying to handle everything that's happened to me with a certain amount of grace, dignity and good manners. You just can't necessarily win all the time.

I get beat up on every project.

When I am about to have a difficult project, I dream I am climbing a mountain. When everything is going fine, I dream I am going down the mountain.

I grew up in the projects. You have no choice but to fight. My jokes used to get me in fights.

I do seem to try to make things harder and harder for myself. In some perverse way, obstacles interest me and I'm drawn to projects that end up being incredibly laborious.

I'm from the housing projects, where people can't afford $150 shoes.

Living in the projects helped me with this role.

I have done so many stupid commercials and terrible other little projects that never went anywhere and just ended up being terrible.

I didn't grow up the popular girl or the popular cheerleader. I've never been to a prom, I didn't have a lot of boyfriends, so I'm used to being on this side of life.

I come from North New Jersey, where nothing's promised.

Didn't get promoted? Good. More time to get better.

I just want to thank police for all this great promotion that they're giving me, all these cancellations, which are making me more powerful.

I don't want to be that guy they say that's injury prone.

I'm living proof that whatever happens to you in life, you can turn base metal into gold.

Is there any proof that I'm a bust? All there is proof of is that I have bad luck with injuries.

Any time you experience adversity, whether you lose a game or maybe have an official who makes a poor call that costs you the game, you've gotta handle yourself properly. Just like in life, not everything will go your way.

You didn't eat some days for two days you didn't eat properly.

There was a time when I was not able to speak properly because of my medical condition. But I managed to fight against all those odds.

I had TB as a boy. They said my skeletal frame never developed properly.

I don't know if there were many pros for me playing early. I feel like I dug myself a pretty deep hole that rookie year.

The guy who enters pro sports hasn't run scared from the 7th grade on. Until he enters the pros, it's been nothing but roses.

We've all got different ways to deal with adversity as pros, but if you want it and you want to be great, you've got to make it happen and fight through it.

I have no enemies and no hatred. None of the police who monitored, arrested, and interrogated me, none of the prosecutors who indicted me, and none of the judges who judged me are my enemies.

Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.