Quotes About Adversity

2014 was a pretty bad year for me. Quite a lot of loss.

Lollapalooza, that was one of my worst shows. We just played at, like, 3 in the afternoon; it was like the hottest, most miserable thing. My shoes were melting. I just thought I was going to die. It was the most horrible experience. I lasted, what, four songs? In front of quite a lot of people. That was one of my least favorites.

So I went to WCW for three years and quite frankly, it was the most miserable three years of my life in terms of business.

All the things that you would have thought would have made me a professional A1 criminal... wrong. I decided that was too lazy and easy, and because of the way British society is, quite frankly you were denied an education, so I got one of my own.

My job is to defeat the guy in front of me, do it until he quits, and then wait for them to send in the next guy.

I'm not a quitter. All my career, I went through a lot of physical adversity, injuries. It's in my nature to be a battler.

I'm a positive person. Things were cancelled? So what? Wally's going on. Why are people so negative? I'm not a quitter.

Boxing is an imitation of life. You get knocked down and you get back up. You don't quit no matter how dark it gets, or whatever adversity passes your way. You just got to keep biting down and fighting, coming up the other side and not quitting, no matter what.

The reality is we live in a world that's filled with stuff, but quitting is not an option.

I thought about quitting filmmaking, just because it was becoming so difficult for me.

The buffalo is all gone, and an Indian can't catch enough jack rabbits to subsist himself and his family, and then, there aren't enough jack rabbits to catch. What are they to do?

There is no friendship out there. When you race, you have to fight. That's it.

Looking back, my life seems like one long obstacle race, with me as the chief obstacle.

At the time I was asked if I would ever step back in a race car, but what was very important for me was to go into the bathroom and pee on my own, but I could not do that. I had to be helped. That was my number one priority.

Even in the middle of races, when things don't go well, I don't let it bother me nearly as much as I used to in the past.

I am a racing driver and I am not just some guy who has had an accident and gone back to racing because that is what he enjoys.

Racing is what I live for, and it makes my world go around. Having said that, without the support of the diabetes community, I may not have gotten back into the race car after my diagnosis in October 2007.

The competition in today's world of racing is so tough.

Racing is full of 'what-ifs.' Like anything else in life, you learn from your mistakes and move on to the next challenge.

I've been a part of this before, where you think the racing gods are against you, then next thing you know, you can't do anything wrong. You're winning races and doing things you feel like you shouldn't have done that particular day. It all comes full circle in this sport. It has a funny way of doing it.

Capsizes kind of go hand in hand with 49er racing. I've had four to five capsizes in races and still won the event. It's just the nature of this type of sailing.

And Dale Jr., Dale's son, and Dale and I all raced to the checkered - were racing toward the checkered, which would have been the greatest race in NASCAR history, I'm convinced of it, had we have made it that last quarter of a mile. But instead it became the worst race in NASCAR history when Dale crashed and died on turn four.

I think I did a pretty good job - particularly when I was racing with Hakkinen. It was maybe the first time that I have been challenging with the big boys, and I really enjoyed it.

I started racing when I was 14 and remember guys like Denis Dunne and Martin Hanrahan dropping me by 10 minutes.