Quotes About Adversity

The worse things are on the world stage, the more fodder there will always be for comedians. But at the end of the day, I trust in my abilities to make comedy and create art, with or without Donald Trump.

A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.

When guys get competitive and get under each other's skin, it brings you out more. Some people fold.

Everyday I meet folks who show me how to look at challenges differently.

My folks were drunks, and I had a rough childhood - really rough - in fact, rougher than I thought about.

Great breakthroughs are always followed by great catastrophes.

Social media was a little hard for me to handle at first, when I was nine. I have a lot of followers, but that came with a lot of people I didn't know bullying me.

When you have this many losses, you don't have a following.

Everything's always about being homogenized and following in a group. The people who stand out always have the most problems.

I think we've all done things we're not particularly fond of. Everybody goes through it and comes out the other end, and goes on with his life as if it didn't happen.

I'm fighting the best guys in the world... I would be a fool to think I wouldn't leave with a little blood and a few scrapes here and there. You've gotta learn how to like that stuff.

I was born on the back foot and have to play with the cards I have been dealt.

When I was a small boy, I was bullied more than most, mainly because I was a foot shorter than everyone else.

When I was a kid, I had serious athlete's foot and nosebleeds.

My left foot is severely damaged from TSS, and I'm probably going to have to amputate my left leg. I could be super depressed about it, but I have been given a second chance. I'm here, and I'm living.

I did the long jump and hurt my foot. It was a stress fracture in the left foot, which even now, 12 years on, is the bane of my life.

I broke my foot in college.

It's football. There's emotions.

I'm not going to lie: not playing football will be very difficult for me.

We don't always get our respect but you've got to deal with it and go out there every week and just win football games.

Physically I was not strong enough to play at Celtic and I know myself it was not my best time as a football player, for sure.

You don't meet many comics who came from rich families or were captain of the football team and had a nice car.

When you have a lousy football team, you learn to be funny.

To me, any time you're playing a Peyton Manning-led football team, there's a challenge - but that's what you dream about growing up as a kid.