Lucy Lawless Quotes

If anyone has followed my career, they know that there's been a lot of obstacles and a lot of ups and down through my career. But day in and day out, and in the square circle, I went out there and always did my best.

You have to play the cards you are dealt and if it has made it harder, it doesn't matter, you still have to get the deal done.

I've learned a lot from the experiences that I went through in high school, through college and overseas, and just everything in life. That is what prepared me for coming into the NBA, being undersized, no recognition, not getting anything easy, and I have been fortunate to prosper in this league.

When I was 4 years old, my brother and sister died of hunger, so I achieved my success through confidence, self-motivation and my hard work.

I'm proud of my triumphs. I've dreamed of being world champion, I've had some difficult times and they've made me value the good times.

I experienced firsthand what it means to be poor, what it means to go hungry, and that, I think, may be the reason, the root cause of why I'm able to work so hard, even these days.

Everything that I've ever been able to accomplish in skating and in life has come out of adversity and perseverance.

When you lose a couple of times, it makes you realize how difficult it is to win.

You can't dodge them all. I got hammered plenty of times through the years. But you just get up and keep playing. I can tell you from experience, though. Sometimes it hurts like hell.

It frustrates me if I'm not good at something, so I do it until I get good at it.

I am determined to go through the horror of this world.

I've been beat up pretty badly. Pretty badly. Yet at the end of the day, everyone says I'm doing a pretty good job.

You'll encounter difficulties at any job, and the best way for me to get through them is via endurance.

Man. I've been through a lot as a kid. But at the same time that upbringing just made me stronger and made me more determined to make it out of where I made it out from and just fight extra hard to not go back.

Things are not going to be easy, things are not going to be fair. Just do your best.

The first time I was in the ring, I wasn't good at it, and I honestly thought, 'Maybe this isn't for me.' Then I went back the next day and the next day and the next day... because I loved it more than anything.

Not everybody gets to play their first year or second year. Some people have to go through adversity.

Sometimes when you stare adversity in the face you've got to go back to those basic principles of football and do them right.

Something's bound to happen to you in a tough fight: cut eye, broken nose or broken hand or something like that. So you could make excuses out of anything, you know, but you got to keep on going if you're a champ or you're a contender.

I look at the opportunity to play football as a blessing and I think what doesn't kill you certainly makes you stronger.

I've always had to fight. Throughout my life, it's been a fight to get to where I am now.

I've dealt with adversity before, had injuries before. I didn't let that slow me down. It just changed my attitude about the game.

I've never chosen the easy route to world titles or the easy route in fights, and I came up short against Stevenson.

I've always gone through adversity in this game, and I've always overcome it. My middle school coach told me that I was probably a better hockey player than a football player, and that still drives me every day.

There have been plenty of stories of people who go through adversity and had a bump in the road. The guys who persevere and continue to work hard, it turns out OK for them.