Quotes About Adversity

My parents got divorced when I was around a year old. My dad was essentially a nonentity in my life until I got to be about 16 or so. My mom was a flight attendant for PanAm, so I moved all over the world. London, Rio de Janeiro.

I was the most emotional of the flight directors. Space really got me all honked up.

I was in Austin on 9/11, and there were no flights, so I couldn't get to New York to cover the story, so I had to find more creative ways.

Flint is a very tough place to live. The environment is definitely a different type of environment than anywhere else in the country, I feel like.

That's what you do with the worst day ever: you flip it on its back.

You just keep your feet on the floor. I never feel I get too high and I never feel I get too low about things. Everyone else may deal with things like that differently but that is just how I go about it.

Nobody ever sets out to make a flop, but it's going to happen. You have to pick yourself up, dust yourself down and say: 'Right, we go again.'

So if radio flops, and MTV flops and everything flops, it doesn't matter, as long as we're still playing and kids are coming to our shows.

Your film is a hit, you bathe in champagne; it flops, a single malt lessens the pain.

I am probably the best example of an actor who has built his career on flops.

I love my flops. Look at my life: my failure that broke my heart made me stronger.

There was a time when I used to have flops and there was nothing much to lose.

When I was 16, my mother moved me out of Brooklyn and sent me to Florida to stay with my family for a little bit because I was being bad, not going to school and stuff.

I feel like everybody is against Floyd Mayweather. I don't get any respect.

Despite the adversity that George Floyd endured, he was full of life and love for his family, friends, and loved ones. It was in honor of his life that millions took to the streets in struggle for a world where George Floyd would never have been taken from us.

The day I am not able to fly will be a sad day for me.

You fly. You aviate. You do everything you can to get the aircraft safely on the ground.

It's easy to have a good attitude when you're flying, but you need it when you're up against it as well.

At the top, I was flying high. I didn't understand what it meant to be down and out.

Boot Camp was great and very interesting. You got to use live rounds of ammunition and got to do a lot of crawling around with live rounds flying around you, so you really had to learn to keep your ass down - everything down for that matter.

If I still had my legs, I would be in line for a battalion command, and instead, I'm flying a desk.

I have had bullets flying at concerts, but I don't want to talk about that.

I love the idea that I can change the worst possible thing to the best possible thing: dying to flying.

Failure happens to everyone in this game. It's not something worth harping on. What is worth focusing on is how you respond to that failure.