Molly Bloom Quotes

I almost wrote my career off. I wasn't quite good enough and I thought that ship had sailed. But I carried on, won the World Under-21 Championship in 2003 and got the tour card.

I was at Watford and got a knock-back when I was 16 and didn't get a YTS contract. They said I could find another club or go in and train three times a week after school. I'd been there since I was 10, so I got my head down and proved them wrong. Within a year, they had signed me up, and I haven't looked back.

I've never stabbed, hurt, killed, stolen, anything, but I went to jail for a year. What is that? My pastor said to me the fact that I'm not living under a bridge as a crazy woman, talking to myself, is amazing.

There is nothing as sweet as a comeback, when you are down and out, about to lose, and out of time.

When a young person is sent 'up the river,' we need to remember that all rivers can change course.

I was written off as a lost cause. But I'm living proof that miracles can happen.

I was in jail a couple of times, and I was probably heading back there for a long time. But martial arts saved my life and some of the choices I made with it.

A lot of fighters are counted out after a loss, and it's really what you do afterward that offers an explanation to your career.

The thing that I think about the most, and is the most rewarding to me, is the whole past. That I kind of went from nothing to something and I did it on my own, and I did it through hard work and smarts.

I was an opportunist and got away with things because I was very young, but I went to prison and came out and remade my life.

I had five years of failure, really, before I had the first initial sign of success.

I was kicked out of The Stars And Stripes twice, and finally got back in.

There's nothing as exciting as a comeback - seeing someone with dreams, watching them fail, and then getting a second chance.

If I wasn't a champion, I'd still be in jail. That makes me try very hard.

From Drew Barrymore to Robert Downey Jr., there's a long list of people who have faced their troubles, wildly overcome them, and succeeded.

I am no longer a criminal. I gave up that practice years ago.

I had to overcome challenge after challenge in order to take my life from nothing to living my dreams.

Some of us can be examples about going ahead and growing, and some of us, unfortunately, don't make it there, and end up being examples because they had to die. I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn't death.

I could have easily gone down the wrong path and dropped out of school, but I was given a second chance.

I just think if I can go from being a homeless kid with a dream of being in the biggest band in the world and making that happen, I can do a lot of other cool stuff, too.

I like to think that even if we make some really bad choices and go down some bad paths, we'll eventually emerge from it.

People wrote me off, but I believed in myself. I got the confidence back, and it grew and grew. I won my first major and my last at the place that changed my life.

During my time in prison, I told myself that I wanted to be a part of the solution and not the problem.

I'm really thankful to God, man. Like now, I'm really making a real comeback with my group. With or without a record, with or without a movie. And behind all the negative press behind this movie.

I came from a very poor background. I came from children's homes; I came from a violent family, and against all the odds, I succeeded.