John Hawkes Quotes

I've had my ups. I've had my downs, but I've been able to push through every obstacle that's been thrown my way.

In my early days in school, I had no shoes, no school bags. There were days I had only one meal... I walked miles and crossed rivers to school every day. Didn't have power, didn't have generators, studied with lanterns, but I never despaired.

You cannot understand a man’s work by what he has accomplished but by what he has overcome in accomplishing it.

I'm a plodder, one foot in front of the other. Life is all about understanding that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. And it's your ability with how you deal with that adversity that ultimately affects your success.

The hardest thing is when things are not going so well and you have got to dig in and get results.

There's always going to be bumps in the road. There's always going to be this and that, adversity. You just overcome it. It's what I've done all my life.

Young people need plenty of difficulties to achieve something.... If you receive a little money for this, a little money for that, everything becomes mediocre, and collapses ignominiously.

This isn't going to be easy," I grumbled as we headed toward the exit. Bones shrugged. "Nothing worthwhile ever is.

I never fight, except against difficulties.

Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.

Nobody's going to give you everything on a silver tray. It's going to be difficult.

I like struggle.

I look for struggle in the roles I choose - struggle and perseverance.

There is no success without hardship.

My dad grew up in a mud hut and studied by candlelight. He was 14 when he got a scholarship to Russia. He was super clever - the cleverest person. He landed in 5ft of snow, and was alone at 14, studying science and engineering. He didn't have a bed, and he slept on a table.

Easy is not an option!

I'm somebody who finds adversity is almost as good as encouragement. It's almost like, you close the door, and I'll find ten ways to kick it in and go around it or dig under it or something.

Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.

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

That's been the story of my life - obstacles: trying to figure a way over them, around them, under them; sometimes you have to go straight through them.

When I say 'fighter,' I am thinking about how you deal with adversity, how you deal with being in bad situations.

Nothing in my life has really ever been easy. I've always been someone who did it uphill.

Not everything happens as we want or desire. It doesn't matter. I'm a fighter, and I'm ready to fight every time.

Football is not always easy; you need to navigate through some adversity.

Nothing in my life has ever come easy.