Quotes About Adversity

I was top-10 once upon a time in this league, and I took a quick drop-off. Like, that's just not normal.

You don't learn anything from quick knockouts. I learn more about myself from hard fights.

After 'Maryada Ramanna,' I wanted to make a quick film on a shoestring budget.

My girls had to grow up quick because of everything we've been through.

If I had grown earlier, maybe I would have stuck with football. Maybe. But I was just too small. I was quick, I could outrun people, but if anyone ever got a hand on me, I was done.

The quick knockouts are nice, but going through a war now and again is a good experience to know I've done it.

My parent's divorce and hard times at school, all those things combined to mold me, to make me grow up quicker. And it gave me the drive to pursue my dreams that I wouldn't necessarily have had otherwise.

It does hurt that your parents are not together and they are fighting. Looking back, I grew up a little quicker than I would have normally. I spent half the week with my mom and half with my dad.

Being poor gets you thinking quicker.

There's going to be times where things don't go the right way, but for the most part, if we continue to communicate, we'll figure it out quicker.

When there's an adult person who's scaring you, you grow up pretty quickly.

I know as quickly as people come up you can go down and I'm just trying to enjoy it and experience things that I never got to have, that's all it is.

Everybody who goes through the business will make mistakes. The big question is how big will the mistakes be? How fast will they learn from the mistakes, and how quickly will they get the business in the correct direction?

I guess some kids around me had to grow up quickly, had all those problems. But I wasn't one of those kids, or around those kids, not at all.

Making the best of things is... a damn poor way of dealing with them. My whole life has been a series of escapes from that quicksand.

I was quiet, and I was artistic. I liked writing poetry, and that was very strange, so I was bullied a lot.

I am a quiet man who grows through adversity.

For many years when I was younger, I let negative things that people said about me affect my life. What I've learned is that it's really important to find the right support network, focus on the positive things in your life and quiet that negative voice in your head.

When I didn't become the quintessential Yash Chopra hero, I got into the 'struggle' period and became negative.

I will not quit this game because of what the media has done to me.

When I turned 17, that's when it all got a bit too much. I decided to stop doing pretty much everything. I quit football. I wouldn't get up in the morning. I wouldn't go out of my room. I was very depressed.

It can be a daunting prospect for any player to know that his opponent will never, ever quit.

I faced challenges as a kid, but who hasn't? A lot of people have experienced far worse. I was bullied, sure, and it was painful at the time. I even quit high school to get away from it. But I've never been the kind of person to let my past predict my future.

I had had to quit a few jobs in North Carolina because of how anxious they made me.