Rose Namajunas Quotes

I went through a really low period about 13 years ago, when all aspects of my career and everything went completely wrong.

Going through that traumatic time of being heartbroken and then being pregnant turned my whole life upside down and inside out and just knocked the wind out of me. But I got so much out of that.

Every single one of us has a few months here or there that feel like dark months.

I struggled for many, many years following 'Music and Lyrics' - I mean really struggled.

The '80s were a difficult period for me.

When I was in Portland, there were some dark times for me.

I never enjoyed life in my twenties, not one minute of it. It was a test of endurance that I'm surprised I survived. Professionally, of course, I was doing very well but personally it couldn't have been worse or more difficult for me if I'd been living in a mud hut in Leeds.

If you had told me when I was 18 that I wouldn't have made it until I was 29, I would have said, Forget it.

I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.

My parents' divorce made an important change in my life. It affected me. After that, when I can't play Wimbledon, it was tough. For one month I was outside the world.

I couldn't do it at all. I was never really good at it, but I can't imagine what it can be like as a fortunate person not having to deal with it. I mean, people of all ages, not just my age, 25, 35, all the way down the line.

We rarely grow when we're happy, we grow when we hurt.

I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.

I exist in a world that's pretty gruesome. All I can tell you is this: I'm trying to keep my balance.

Everyone goes through a hard time in their life.

You're not fully you until life has booted you in the behind.

I had to fight my whole life to break out of my circumstances. That's just part of my makeup.

Because nobody goes through life without a scar.

The truth is, everybody falls into an incinerator of some measure or other. Not literally one. The question is what are you going to do with those bad times? Are you just going to let them gnaw at you?

By my mid-20s, I was a total mess.

You may feel singled out when adversity enters your life. You shake your head and wonder, 'Why me?'

The truth is, we all face hardships of some kind, and you never know the struggles a person is going through. Behind every smile, there's a story of a personal struggle.

I chose to go down a very dark place, and I can't change that, but those moments have served as an education for me.

Everybody's gone through some kind of struggle in their life, and I'd like to be the type of voice who talks about it.

Life's been a rollercoaster for me, but I think we can all agree on enduring ups and downs. I've yet to meet a person who hasn't gone through something major in their life.