Quotes About Challenges

To be an elite athlete is really hard when you're depressed.

There were very depressing days when the whole year everyone was working, and you were sitting at home because half of the people weren't giving you work and then there were some who didn't like you.

I had a lot of depression as a kid.

You never really shake depression and that's a tough road you have to deal with.

My depression is not something very special. A lot of people go through depression. My divorce is not something very special; a lot of people go through divorce.

In the Depression especially, I think you learn to face problems and not run away from them.

Depression is something I've dealt with every day of my life.

Almost everyone I know is battling something, whether it's allergies or depression. Whatever it is, it makes you feel less than who you are. I believe part of life's challenge is to work through that.

I have anxiety and have had depression in the past.

I personally dealt with a lot of depression and anxiety in my life.

I never thought I'd be somebody dealing with anxiety or depression.

Anxiety has been a big problem for me, but I think my biggest struggle has been depression.

I dealt with depression for my whole life. That's not something that was caused by being trans.

I had a couple years of depression. I started drinking too much. I had to up my antidepressants. I cried all day, every day, and I lost weight. But I had to take care of two kids. It wasn't about me anymore.

I went through an extreme depression.

For most players it's hard to accept you've ended your football career and that you have to go out and do something else. But the way it happened to me, so suddenly... I went into depression and had to deal with that, being depressed, something that had never happened to me in my life before.

Post-partum depression is real and while I was told about it, I wasn't sure what to expect.

I knew I didn't have post-natal depression because it wasn't all day, every day. But I felt very low. As a woman you think you should still be making dinner and looking nice. You think, 'I can do a million and one things.' But you can't.

I grew up in one of the most deprived parts of Britain. I know the problems which inner-city children face.

I am not Pollyannaish about the depths of the challenges we face.

If the ascent of women has been much exaggerated, so has the descent of men.

Anybody who's ever been in a large organization realizes that 'optimizing' is not a word that would often be used to describe any large organization. The reason is that it's full of people, who are complicated.

I crossed the Gobi desert to be free and now I thought I live in a country where I can say what I believe and have my freedom to think. However, now I have to constantly censor my speech because in the name off a 'safe place.'

Everybody deserves the opportunity to fight and fight with everything that they're given.