Rodney Hood Quotes

If I played a bad game, there's gonna be people out there that want to try to bring me down. But I always stay up.

I said, God, the press and people, they just really hate me and I'm really trying. Geraldine Page said, Listen to this, Tab. If people don't like you, that's their bad taste.

Don't let what others think or say get in your way; their actions reflect on them, not you.

If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.

It doesn't matter what people say about me, I weather the storm.

Everybody is going to have their critics. It's easy to get discouraged in life.

I've had so many things, good and bad, said about me. I'm way beyond worrying about what people say.

Fear has been a big battle, it runs rampant in my sport so I love to overcome that, to challenge it head on, because there is nothing that feels as accomplished as overcoming a fear, and something that has blocked you in such a big way.

I think the rejection - if it's taken in the right spirit, it can make you a better person. And I think that is what I've always striven for. If one thing didn't work out, a project or anything, it doesn't mean that I lose my own confidence. In fact, I give myself a lot more confidence and opportunities.

Overcoming adversity not only makes you stronger, it makes you more hopeful.

Even going back to the haters, it's messed up what they say, but that's made me stronger, and it's built me into who I am today, and I am completely fine with that.

I believe the tough fights bring out the better fighter in myself.

I tried not to let all the criticism affect me, but it obviously does not go unnoticed.

You never want to hear your name get booed, but it's fine. I'm not going to let it bother me because I know what type of guy I am.

I don't listen to the critics.

I used to try to get revenge on the critics, but now I realize I've already won, and it doesn't matter what people say.

I dropped out of school; I got fired from my job. Those were my roughest moments, but I always knew through it that I was going to be great.

I have had a couple of situations where I wasn't the strongest person in the world.

My hardest lesson has been my most fruitful, too: that when people don't believe in me, I can prove them wrong.

I always believed in myself when I was not playing much.

It's not a good feeling when you get booed. But I don't want to be good because somebody booed me. I want to be great player because that's the way I am.

I have always been a very positive person and tried to bring the positives from the hardest moments.

The criticism I received only served to make me a stronger person.

Don't let ups and downs leave you down and out.

I think that we're our own worst enemies in a lot of ways, especially when it comes to doing work where you're criticized a lot or doing work where there's a lot of hater directed at you; and to not constantly second-guess yourself.