Quotes About Adversity

Most terrible memories are a lesson and don't want them to be forgotten.

I once used a fork to comb my hair because there was a time when I didn't own a hairbrush.

Like everyone, I am formed by my background, and mine was - well, we didn't have a lot of money. I didn't live in a cardboard box, but I did live in a place where, at the end of the week, the money was gone.

There's only two choices when life goes wrong. You deal with it, or you check out, and, like 90% of people, I go for the former.

I forget a lot of things sometimes. I'm not one to sit here and complain. While I did not know the severity of what continuous head traumas could do to an individual and the mind and so forth, I'm not going to sit here and complain.

I think, fortunately and unfortunately, I've got a lot of experience in playing for teams that have been in this situation where we lost a few games and we've got to stay the course, we've got to right the ship, and we've got to do all of that stuff.

Some people don't like the 'comeback' because that suggests they went somewhere, which they didn't. That isn't what I mean. In my mind, people were doing well, and then they went right down, and they made a comeback. It's not that they went anywhere. It's that their fortunes went way down, and then they came back.

My mother was widowed twice before she turned forty.

I look forward to the challenges.

After everything I've been through - the foster care, the losing my parents and stuff like that, I was never one to kind of go, 'I'm gonna just not try.' I used it all as ammunition.

I fought the best; I've never been afraid of anyone.

Every time that we've ever fought, we fought to keep from bein' destroyed. We've never started a war.

I was painfully initiated into boxing, because the guys I fought were a lot bigger than me.

I never went through an easy fight. Every fight has been hard fought.

I ended up moving downtown with these three dudes that I didn't really know. I came into the house, and I didn't realize how things worked. From, like, 15-18, I was just fighting them. I fought, like, every day, and these were, like, older dudes. It was every man for himself.

Who I have fought and how I have fought, it says something about me.

I've fought the best guys in the world, and I've beat the best guys in the world.

When I was harassed and discriminated against, I fought as hard as I could - because I hadn't gone through all of that, I hadn't worked so hard my entire life, just to have someone take it away from me.

I've always fought the best guys.

I've been around. I've fought in the big fights.

I've been in the ring. I've fought in a title fight. I know what it is like to lose a fight. I know everything a fighter has been through.

I knew I wanted to be an actor the first time I thought it wasn't going to be possible and decided to go another way. I was filled with this incredible sadness - and every time my life led me away from it, I fought to get back to it.

I've even fought with a broken hand, against Brian Magee.

There have been times I've fought just to fight.