Quotes About Adversity

Puerto Rico had a number of problems before Maria even hit.

Sometimes you get up in the morning and think you can't do it, and you just have to. The minute you stop it's like a balloon, you run out of puff - you sort of collapse in a heap. I think you live on adrenaline.

Nobody can pull you down more than you.

There have been instances of many trying to pull me down in Mollywood. However, I have no complaints.

My acting career helped pull me through the rough times.

This is a bad day for Boston, but I think if we pull together we'll get through it.

Sometimes when you're making more errors you want to pull back, but I just need to keep going forward.

People are always ready to pull you down.

I got hurt my senior year of college. I ended up breaking my fifth metatarsal after I pulled out of the Draft. That was a good experience for me to kind of find myself, figure out a plan for post-basketball because obviously it doesn't last forever.

I was born with a black eye. When they pulled me out with the forceps, they clamped them round my face, so I had a big bruise from that.

I've had stuff pulled for me on big shows and stuff like that. You can get frustrated all you want, but the show must go on, and there are reasons for it.

There's been so many times when I've heard people not pulling for me. So I just play and try not to think about it.

I'm beat up, but that's all I know; physically, I'm beat to a pulp. But I don't know anything other than pain since I'm 18 years old.

I was 19 years old, pumping gas and going nowhere. I was kind of a high school dropout at that point because I had left school to play hockey, but no one drafted me.

You can't learn to take a punch. Whether you have a glass chin or you don't, the only way of finding out is having it land.

Any punch can end a fight, so there's no easy fight.

My older brother used to punch me all the time because I was a nerd.

At the end of the day, when you're dealing with heavyweights who can punch, anything is possible. When you've got a big heavyweight who has knockout power, anything's possible.

When someone unloads on me, I keep my head moving; I don't freeze. I punch back with them. The occasion never gets to me. Not one bit. I enjoy it.

Angulo presents a difficult challenge because he's a fighter who can punch and take a great punch.

I've learned a lot about life besides how to take a punch. And I've taken quite a few in and out of the ring.

It's MMA - anything can happen. You can throw a punch from one knee, a punch from anywhere.

I didn't know how to throw a punch - why would I? Who knows how to throw a punch? Now I do it all the time, and it makes me feel strong.

You can sit there and punch me in the head for three minutes straight, but I'm gonna figure it out. I always do. I just know that about myself.