Quotes About Challenges

The beginning of my political career was not promising. I ran for junior class president at Shortridge High school and was runner up. I ran again in the senior year with the same result. But opportunity came ironically, or fortunately, when I returned to Indianapolis after serving in the Navy.

When I ran for governor of Minnesota, I only raised $300,000.

I started FUBU in 1989 but ran out of money three times and closed it down.

I played small forward on the basketball team. I also ran the 300 hurdles.

The reason I actually ran for office is because of Hillary Clinton. Everybody was telling me why I shouldn't run: I was too young, I had small children, I should start at the school board level.

I had a really bad running posture: like, I ran, literally, dropping on my face.

I have been extraordinarily fortunate in my life, luckier than almost anybody on this planet. And whenever I ran into challenges, my parents did everything they could so that I could maximize my own potential.

When I got involved in politics and started running, there were questions about whether a woman could take care of her kids and serve in office. And that was never an issue when I ran.

I served on a lot of the local boards in my local community, and then I ran for the state legislature in '98 and ran for the U.S. Senate in 2006. I mean, it was just kind of one thing after another. A series of really bad decisions.

A lot of players have had it worse than me. Look at a guy like Andy Roddick, incredible Hall of Fame player, but he ran up against Roger so many times in big finals.

My mother ran away from my father after 16 years of being married to him. She was 16 when she hooked up with him. She left him after having six kids.

When I first ran for office in 1980, there weren't that many women running for office.

We ran into some bumps in the road at the University of Florida.

I didn't get a chance to shoot any threes at all in the offense we ran at Wake.

I think in 2012, I ran 28 races in June, so I probably ran 12 or 13 in a row, at least.

My life was a sort of series of random disasters.

A lot of things change when one is granted success: random people pop up, and a lot of the adjustments are rough. My way of coping with them is through focusing on the things that I have accomplished and the things that are yet to come.

There's random people calling my phone: 'Your mother gave me your number.' My mother has tried to set me up so many times long-distance.

They can't have Randy Johnson and Curt Schilling lose a game.

When my career took off like a rocket in '97 - me against the nWo and Randy Savage - I wasn't just a top guy, I was the top guy, and then in '98, I blew my back out.

At 185 in the UFC they had Rich Franklin and Anderson Silva, and I couldn't go to 205 - they had Randy Couture, Chuck Liddell and all of those big guys. I just wasn't mature enough, so if I hadn't fought at 170 I probably wouldn't have had the career I've had.

VR has a whole range of things it's very good at, and there's a lot of things that it's going to be deficient at.

Maybe the higher echelons of my range aren't as easily accessible, but that's OK; you change the key.

I represented women with unplanned pregnancies from age 14 to 40, and they range from living in their car to living in the nicest neighborhoods in town.