Quotes About Adversity

I work best when there is adversity: I seem to get calmer the more the fur is flying.

I always think that trying to push yourself as an actor in a direction that you've never been before, developing characters which are more difficult to get into the head of, or are more interesting and further away from yourself, is always a challenge.

There are times when hard fouls are just a part of the game, and then there's times when they're a little bit further than that.

The future doesn't belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.

For years, I did whatever I could just to pay the bills and gain experience and work with as many different people as I could.

You're going to lose points and gain points throughout the year.

Every fight brings out something different in me, and it will be no different in this one. I have learned and gained from all of those experiences. And as I've often said, the public hasn't seen the best of me yet. I need someone like Mayweather to bring that out of me.

I like the thought of gaining revenge over WBC light-heavyweight champion Adonis Stevenson, who beat me in 2013.

Being with Dortmund and playing in more big games there, it's just gaining experience.

Gains achieved at great cost against our enemy in Afghanistan are reversible.

Right before 'Brian's Song' there was a period when I was very despondent, broke, depressed; my first marriage was on the rocks. The role of Gale Sayers had been cast with Lou Gossett, and then he hurt himself playing basketball. I was called in to read for the role. I was their last choice, and I knew it.

I used to have a gambling problem.

When you get down, your game plan changes a lot and what you're trying to do is eliminated.

I lost my fight against Brett Rogers because... I didn't follow my game plan.

There are always bad games and bad afternoons.

When I was young, I thought it was normal to go to sleep to the sounds of sirens. People on my block were in the biggest gang in the city. They were my close friends - they showed me the ropes, who to watch out for.

But I was also a brat. I used to belong to a gang that went looking for fights with other gangs.

I know people in gangs; I could have went down that route.

Most of the guys I grew up with let the streets and the gangs influence them. Maybe one or two of them made it to college. All the negative things were all around me.

I came to the U.S. to have opportunities. I saw a lot of people in gangs. I just didn't understand that - you live in the U.S., you have all these opportunities. And then you get in a gang?

When you're a kid, you're just not equipped to deal with some of the stuff that life brings you. It's why you have parents. And then, when you don't, there better be somebody who fills in that gap, or you're going to be rudderless for a while.

If people wanted to fight me in the garage, then bring them on, and I will fight them in the garage.

I come from garbage.

We were living in a tough situation, but my mother managed; she juggled. Sometimes we'd pay the light bill, sometimes we paid the phone, sometimes the gas went off.