Michael Irvin Quotes

I have weathered many different storms and I know who I am and my friends know who I really am.

You're going to find out who your friends are. Anything that happens in your life is one of those challenges. It may not be at the level of celebrity, but everybody's going to travel that road.

It is tough: sometimes the pain that you feel makes you grow.

I think the toughest phase of life is over, and I don't wish it on anyone. My family has gone through a lot, and I don't want to dwell on the past.

The fire of my tribulations had not simply been pain to be endured. It had been an agent of transformation. After all that I'd been through, I'd changed. Not for the worse, I was pretty sure--at least not yet. But only a moron or a freaking lunatic could have faced the things I had and remained unfazed by them.

My success symbolizes loyalty, great friends, Dedication, hard work, routine builds character. In a world full of snakes, rats and scavengers

My first big heartbreak proved to me that what doesn't kill you makes you stronger.

Every child I know who overcame long odds and grew into a responsible adult can point to an adult who stepped into his or her life as a FRIEND, a MENTOR, and a GUIDE.

I think in life everyone needs to be broken in some way.

The scars will take me far, they always do.

My experience as a refugee had made me strong; I could survive anything, even the world of fashion.

Life wasn't good, but I could not walk away from something I love. I had a difficult life to face, but I had to try to keep dealing with the situation with the help of my family, friends, and training partners and manager.

So once you hit like that place, where everything is stripped from you, everything is taken from you, you really discover who you really are. I discovered that I'm a real hero, that I can deal with that situation, that I can rise up to the challenge.

I have been hated by the whole world and it's been something to definitely overcome.

What don't break you will make you.

You take a look back at some tough parts of your life, just bad things that have happened: they tend to build your character and make you who you are.

I've cried my eyes out and wanted to end it all before. I hope everybody's gone that far, because it makes life rich.

I've had enough rejection for multiple lifetimes.

I think I created my own narrative, being a guy who kind of got chewed up and put through the grinder and coming out on top.

When you are being bullied a long way from home, when you face that challenge, that is where you find out a lot about yourself.

Yale was one of the best moments in my life - also one of the hardest. I learned about community.

I think, as people, we deal with struggles.

I had four great years at West Ham. People will always refer to the difficulties at certain times, but you get those everywhere.

I have seen extreme lows because of factors that were not in my hands - be it not having money to buy my first bike, dropping out of a prestigious engineering college without having a single rupee in my bank account, living with seven boys in a single-room kitchen in Mumbai, or eating nothing but khichdi every day. But I cherish all those moments.

It's important to remember, most people have been bullied, and it makes you a stronger person in the long run.