Quotes About Adversity

I'm grateful for rain because, when I was kidnapped, that meant that I had something to drink.

My life is not, you know, all rainbows and butterflies.

When it rains, it pours - figuratively and literally.

As soon as it rains, I am very good, very, very competitive; when the track dries it is not so easy.

Hollywood can jack you up and then help you fall, but it can also raise you up.

I was born and raised in war.

I was raised by my mother. My father died when I was 15. He was just 41.

I was raised by a single dad, and I've always kind of liked things that are typically more guy-oriented.

I guess the most seminal moment going early way back was my father died when I was 3 years old. I was raised by my grandparents, and my mother went back and got a degree.

I was raised by women. The men in my life were either not there or not good when they were there.

For some reason I am one of those people who act like they were born and raised during the Depression.

Whenever you play with better competition or play against better players, it raises your level of play on both ends of the court.

My mom was paralyzed from polio at the age of 2, abandoned by her husband, left with a 2-year-old, a 6-year-old and a 10-year-old, and so, we were raising her as much as she was raising us.

I had some good Alabama raising. You might do something wrong, but you wouldn't do it but once.

Growing up raising three boys on your own is either gonna make you strong or make you crazy. It definitely made my mom strong.

I went to public school, elementary through high school. I went to homecoming, to football games, pep rallies, I got detention, I got an F. I've done it all.

When our country has faced challenges before, we've seen North Carolinians rally around each other.

With experience also comes the understanding that you have to beat the rally before you can beat the competition.

Rallying is a sport in which accidents do happen. You have to respect the conditions you face.

Even bigger directors like Mani Ratnam and Ram Gopal Varma have faced flak, that doesn't mean they've shied away from filmmaking.

I was just a guy who ran away from home at 16 because my parents were getting a divorce and the judge was making me choose which parent to live with. I didn't want to make that choice. I ended up in New York City.

I was not a girl who grew up buying $100 candles. I was the girl who ran out of gas on her way to an audition.

I remember once, actually the first race I ran, I fell.

And I was booked once to go on 'Ed Sullivan' and I got bumped and ran out the back door crying.