Andre Ward Quotes

Struggle has been a part and parcel of my life.

I've faced adversity throughout my whole life.

When one has had a life as difficult as mine, one doesn't worry about how others will react.

I grew up poor. I had no money. My family was poor. There's things I wanted to do and couldn't. I was an abused wife. Just - there's tons of things that I couldn't even mention. And for me to come up and to have all of this fame and fortune, it's just - it is a Cinderella story to me.

I'll always push myself because that's the journey of life. We do go through things. Some of it's incredibly great and some of it's really bad.

How many times do you read about 'the Cinderella story,' the story of the underdog, the story of the ordinary human being, often subjected to cruelty and ignorance and neglect, who somehow triumphs?

I don't consider myself a survivor; that's someone who has gone through something terrible.

There's always been adversity, wherever I've gone.

I was the epitome of rags to riches.

A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity 'til he has tasted adversity.

I come from a pretty tough background and I learned a long time ago not to be bothered.

I have definitely gone through my ups and downs and faced my adversity and my nay-sayers, but managed to do all right. It is a pretty classic tale.

I was lucky to come from a difficult area. It teaches you not just about football but also life. There were lots of kids from different races and poor families. People had to struggle to get through the day.

I grew up in the projects in Brooklyn, and I consider myself lucky and blessed to be where I am - just working.

We were very poor and my family lost everything during the war - our home and our identity. But I'm a believer in luck and think the social conditions you're born into provide the opportunity for you to prove your luck. And I suppose I've been lucky.

Adversity isn't an obstacle that we need to get around in order to resume living our life. It's part of our life.

Because of the life I've had, I'd grown up quicker than most people.

There's always difficulties and challenges in every life, I don't care how much money you make, where you live... and that's something this film speaks to.

No, I was two years older than the other guys. I was a war baby. My family were a lot poorer than they were. I'd had to fight too hard for anything I had in my life and to smash things up for me.

I was an outsider... but I was also sympathetic with people that were struggling to get up, because I struggled to get up.

My friend, I am going to tell you the story of my life, as you wish; and if it were only the story of my life I think I would not tell it; for what is one man that he should make much of his winters, even when they bend him like a heavy snow?

Fortune has, in the main, hitherto looked unfavourably upon me since I left home, but I begin to hope for better things. Still, in all my past distresses, one thought has consoled me - I have learned to appreciate a parent's love.

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.

Life smacks Tracy Morgan in the face, and I don't mean to talk in third party, but no, it doesn't stop raining when I come outside, no, absolutely not. I'm very in touch.

I didn't lead a very wise life, myself, but it was a full one and a grown-up one. You come of age very quickly through shipwreck and disaster.