Quotes About Adversity

I've never had any issues with racism or racist people at the track for as long as I've been racing in NASCAR. All of that stuff that has happened to my face took place when I was coming up. And a lot of what I get now on social media is 13- and 14-year-old kids just trying to act tough. Well, I'll call them out.

I thought I'd become a welder if my racing career ended.

You can't really learn, not in car racing. You have to make your own mistakes.

I got the biggest gut-punch in racing, for something I didn't do.

Mistakes happen in racing.

Luck is just a stupid word in racing.

I seem to struggle when it comes to racing on road courses.

I hear poets complaining: 'We face what our forebears did not face. We face TV. We face radio. We face this and that.'

Oh rage! Oh despair! Oh age, my enemy!

I have lived poverty. I didn't choose it. No one would choose humiliation, pain, and rage.

My life has been sensationalised into a rags to riches story.

Comedians can't afford to get too comfortable; we need something to rail against.

All human beings are inherently good, so when someone goes off the rails, there must be some mitigating factor - he was bullied, was a loner, had an abusive father, or a domineering mother, etc.

I went off the rails for a few years with drink and different things.

There's times where I go off the rails like anybody else. For the most part, I try to keep it, 'Hey, this is what we're dealt and this is the situation, so let's make the best of it.' Keep a positive attitude.

There's no one who, at some point, hasn't had the feeling their life is on the rails and they can't do anything about it.

So many of these former child actors and actresses seem to go off the rails.

I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will.

No Rain, No Flowers' is an inside look into my journey of healing and growth.

I've spent 35 years sitting on a motorbike in the rain. It's not had too good an effect on my bones.

It's like when people talk about driving F1 cars in the rain. I have absolutely no problem with it.

'Singin' in the Rain' and childbirth are two of the hardest things I ever had to do in my life.

Shooting all day in the rain is not where you want to be.

A Mudboy is just somebody who came from nothing: you know, who turned nothing into something. You know, when I was in Africa, in the rain, I walk around in, like, mud, you know, the sand would turn to mud, and you are not getting out of that.