Quotes About Adversity

Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?

Whoever has lost a fight in the UFC and hasn't wanted to fight that guy the next day shouldn't be in the sport.

All you can do is the same as any other fight: whoever they put in front of you, you go in there and try to get the W.

Whoever they want me to fight, I'm going to fight. So I really don't care.

Whoever gives in to terrorism has to be prepared to do so many times.

When I get in there, I try to really make sure there's no quit in me and that whoever I fight is going to have a long night.

I work for the UFC, and whoever they say I fight, I will.

I stay in character at all times regardless of whoever's playing well, the team isn't playing well. if we're up or down, I'm going to stay in character.

I work hard. And whoever they put in front of me, I guess that's who gets beat up that day.

I understand when results don't go well, it gets broken down and people blame whoever. You've got to take the good with bad.

I'm ready for whatever and whoever.

I get the job of guarding the 'tough guy' every night so I just try to bring the same energy every night with whoever it is that I'm facing.

I've fought my whole life. I've fought whoever they put in front of me. Whether it was in boxing or in the street or whatever, I've never backed down from a fight.

I'm always going to be a problem for whoever is standing across from me.

We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.

My whole life, people have doubted me. My mom did. People told me in high school I'm too short and not fast enough to play basketball. They didn't know my story. Because if they did, they'd know that anything is possible.

My whole career, the ups, the downs, the victories, the defeats, the lessons I've learned and kept rolling, that's what's made me the fighter I am today.

The surprise is half the battle. Many things are half the battle, losing is half the battle. Let's think about what's the whole battle.

Being that I went to jail and came back, I went through a whole new experience in life. I went from being at the top to back down at the bottom again. In jail, you get stripped of your freedom and everything, so I experienced different things, learned more.

I've been told what I can't do my whole life.

I understood, through rehab, things about creating characters. I understood that creating whole people means knowing where we come from, how we can make a mistake and how we overcome things to make ourselves stronger.

Our whole life is set up in the path of least resistance. We don't want to suffer. We don't want to feel discomfort. So the whole time, we're living our lives in a very comfortable area. There's no growth in that.

They did it to try and belittle me, to try and to take away my pride. But I went through the whole system with them. And at the end, I - I wanted the public to know that I was okay, even though I was hurting.

I am very thankful that I have lived the life I have lived. I am thankful for my Graves' disease, and I tell people, if I had my whole life to live over, I would have it, because it has really made me into the person that I am.