Quotes About Adversity

Even my closest friend said I was finished, but I think I may be a little different from the others.

My mother never finished elementary school. My father didn't, and that was a reality for many of us.

Things not always go the best way, also when it comes to finishing, but only those who play miss chances.

Most bands, if something goes wrong, they cower and walk off stage and fire people.

Cold and fire has a way of creeping into the tiniest crack in your courage and finding that coward.

When you can light your water on fire due to methane contamination in your ground water, what else can you do but laugh?

What are people going to do? Fire me? I've been fired before. Not book me? I've been out of work before. I don't care.

After I was fired from Disney, I did some of the worst movies ever made.

Eventually I became involved with somebody, and I was fired.

Getting fired is hard.

I got fired when I was a dishwasher at Denny's. That set me back a little bit. You don't realize how important dishwashers are until you do the job.

I got fired from being a lunch-shift bartender because I had a reading of a play.

I dropped out of school; I got fired from my job. Those were my roughest moments, but I always knew through it that I was going to be great.

Early on, I had five jobs in a row where I was either fired or canceled.

I often joke that I've been fired from almost every job I've ever had.

You coach long enough, you're gonna get fired.

I've been in a lot of fires.

The best piece of life advice I've ever been given is to not take every no to heart - especially with my Little Fires Everywhere audition story.

I'm definitely confident I can beat Timothy Bradley. It would be a great night of fireworks. We are both competitive, fast and strong. I work extremely hard and I would be ready for everything.

I firmly believe you don't get better until you've been at your worst.

I believe first of all it's always a disappointment to lose the players at an important moment of the season.

If you think about where I'm from, I'm not supposed to be singing in the first place. I'm not supposed to be alive right now.

One of the first things I did on arriving at school was to break my left arm falling into a bomb crater.

Deliverance is about what I went through the first time. And I chalk it up as a learning experience.