Quotes About Adversity

I have my moments when I am down and low. But I gather myself when decisions are to be taken.

My fight-or-flight mechanism... had served me well in Gaza, in Afghanistan, and all the places I'd been.

And generally the shows I'm in fail really big.

The fact that I have a risk genetically for Alzheimer's and blindness is not great news. But the reality is that any one of us will have dozens of these risks, and what we have to learn is how to deal with them.

I have written in a lot of genres, that's true, and I'm not sure it's always served my career well.

So I got a chance to meet a whole bunch of those old real, real rough but gentle men. They lived hard, but they lived good - in one sense, you know. But you had a lot of fun. Didn't make much money, but you had a lot of fun.

It's important for that to exist in a society that doesn't present you with any genuine problems.

Losing has nothing to do with geography.

Fightin' George Foreman is like being in the street with an eighteen-wheeler comin' at you.

I'm a black Catholic raised in Decatur, Georgia, which was very gang-infested. Then, I went to an all-white private high school and excelled in sports and wrote poetry, then played football at the University of Georgia, minoring in drama.

I got to Germany without being scouted, and without any experience of playing for my country. But I was given the chance to excel.

I was brought up in Germany, born in 1944, and there was nothing to eat.

In between being born in Nazi Germany, and marriage to my dad - of which I think marriage to my dad might have been worse - my mother had a very difficult and complicated life.

Every ship gets rocked sometimes.

Wally Amos is the classic example of a man who gets up again and again.

Everyone gets depressed. But what do you do? You just go through it.

Nothing ruins your day more than getting a bad review.

I hit adversity when I was at the top of the world. Most people hit adversity when they're just at the beginning, when they're just getting started. I hit it when everybody was watching, and everybody had comments and everybody was doubting me. It was a tough situation to be in.

It's dangerous to be a child star, but it's dangerous to be a child in the ghetto, or to be a child at school being bullied.

I grew up in the ghetto, and the thing is when there were problems, I knew when to get away.

I am from the ghetto.

Very few men can fall as far as I have and come back. People see me and it's like they've seen a ghost, like I'm back from the dead.

I think coughing up slugs was quite hard. Ron has a scene where he has to cough up these giant slugs.

Certainly, with my giant overinflated ego, playing in the CFL would have been like failing.