Quotes About Adversity

The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away.

We have these ambitions that are very hard to accomplish because life puts us in our place. We have this battle with mediocrity.

Any man who puts a pair of gloves on deserves respect because lots wouldn't dream of it. To get in there and go one-on-one, you need your hand shaking afterwards. Many men wouldn't get involved.

When you lose things like football, which is the game I love - and this is the most important thing in my life - it really puts everything in perspective.

When you're not good, and you are losing, and a team puts 50 on you, you gotta figure something out.

When you're in a situation where somebody puts something on you that you don't even know how to defend because it's not true... how do you defend that? It's just like, 'You know what? I'm going to take what you said about me, flip it, and make it lucrative.'

Missing a game or getting a little bit of a bump up or getting a scolding once in a while puts everybody in their right place.

You understand what your eyes mean to you, but it's different when you have to go through something like I did, where it's a possibility you could have lost your eyesight. It puts things back into perspective for you and humbles you a little bit.

After being temporarily paralyzed, it puts a lot of things in perspective.

You know, we live in a time when if somebody wants to kill you, they're going to kill you, and you can either go in a hole and, you know, pull the roof in over you, or you just continue putting one foot in front of the other and hope that you're doing some good in the world.

When I was 10, I was hit by a car, which turned my right tibia into a jigsaw puzzle.

When I get hurt, I fix it and go back fighting.

The more you learn about everything, the more you learn that everything's fixed not in your favour.

I'm the flag man. That's been happening to me since I've been in the league.

Don't be afraid to fall flat on your face.

When I was born my parents lived in a flat so small that it now legally can't be rented out as a dwelling.

No one gets beat by 61 and then come out and plays flat the next game.

I was born with a flat nose, that's not because of boxing.

I built my first flat. I had to, I was going to run out of money badly.

I've made mistakes, usually when I felt backed against a wall or faced enormous pressure. I'm human and flawed.

People like to see a guy being built up; they like to see a guy go from the bottom to the top, but then once you're on the top for a little bit, people wait to see you fail, and they want you to fail, so they find flaws and they find reasons, whether it's being too nice or trying to make you out to be fake - that's what they do.

If you go long enough without a bath, even the fleas will leave you alone.

I don't take success very well, because I know it's fleeting. And the next day, it can all fall apart. I know that, too. So I don't get too high, and I don't get too low. You get through the world a lot easier that way.

What would it take for me to eat human flesh? If that was the only way to stay alive, I would. I would eat anything.