Quotes About Challenges

From having no money and coming from a very proud working class family, it was tough. But then all of a sudden we had loads and loads of cash. I realised that this was a great opportunity to do what I love for a living. I was going to tournaments up and down the country and I was able to win anything from five to seven thousand pounds.

My career has been up and down through injuries, through different coaches that I played for.

That's what the Premier League is, that will never change. There will be periods when you're up and down.

My first year in Germany has been something different for me. I think it's been a big step for me, a different style of football, and I think it's been good. It was a very up and down season for me.

Rehab is always up and down for the mind and for the body.

It's been up and down in my Arsenal career, to be honest.

But the IPL is a long tournament and results keep going up and down invariably.

Life goes up and down. So I just incorporate it with my music. I'm just blessed.

Actually my tennis career is a little bit up and down.

When you're up-and-coming in your career, yes, maybe you have to dodge certain guys. 'Hey, my wrestling isn't good yet, let me get it on-point and then I'll come back there,' or, 'I'm not going to fight that guy right now,' because whatever, when you're up-and-coming. But once you're already at the top of your game, you're in there, man. That's it.

We all have baggage from our upbringing! That's life!

I grew up with this crazy upbringing of living many places and always being the new kid in town, not like a service brat where you're always going to school with other new kids in town. I was constantly arriving in small towns and going to school with kids who'd been together since they were in kindergarten.

I had a normal upbringing, studied in Chaitanya Vidyalaya till class VIII, went to Australia for two years, returned and did my Inter at Oakridge. I wasn't inclined towards academics. I barely scraped through.

You can't separate me from my upbringing as a child overcoming learning disabilities and having to make my way through that.

My upbringing wasn't overly comfortable.

I would never wish my upbringing on anyone... but I wouldn't take it back for the world.

I had a pretty modest upbringing; it was no pleasure cruise. I don't think I would be as happy today if I hadn't been through that. It was tough; I made some bad choices myself.

The harshness of my upbringing did not affect me in the negative. But it has affected many people in the negative.

In my own upbringing, my family lacked the ability to provide a stable, nurturing environment.

I had a very difficult upbringing.

My home and my upbringing and just the problems in my family within my extended family were such that it truly was a mix of the good, bad, and the ugly.

What's helped me is my childhood, my tough upbringing. I learnt a lot from that; it helps with any problems I might encounter.

I get emotionally spent answering questions about my dead father and my criminal friends and my upbringing in a hippie environment in a marginalized community.

I had quite a turbulent upbringing. It was middle class, and everything was quite comfortable, but everyone was mental.