Kevin Knox Quotes

When I started out, I struggled, and I was broke a lot. But I'm glad I struggled, and I'm glad I was broke a lot.

One thing I have learned from Johnny Faulk, Texas, and life, is that since you don't always win, you got to learn to enjoy just fightin' the good fight.

Once I failed in cricket, I joined a law course, but when it also did not work out, it was another setback. When you get back-to-back failures, you automatically start to work harder in life.

I have a different kind of experience than other girls had. I've had to face a lot of different styles and adjust to them. I had to face a lot of bad situations and come back. I've had to fight with my eyes swollen shut and my nose broken and bloody.

I'll always use the negativity as more motivation to work even harder and become even stronger.

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

When ambitious desires arise in thy heart, recall the days of extremity thou has passed through.

Without the lessons I learned in gymnastics, I would be crushed.

Oh, I'm a survivor. My whole life has been surviving.

You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it.

If there's no fire, there's no scream. If there's no scream, then no one hears you and no one comes to help you in the first place. The depth of my struggle has definitely determined the height of my success. To be able to teach my kids not just about success but about the struggle that comes with it.

I was very down as a teenager, very upset because I had gotten hurt in a car accident. But my dad was a source of strength. He used to say, 'It's the character with strength that God gives the most challenges to.' I've thought about that so many times in my life when things didn't go right.

People striving, being knocked down and coming back... this is what builds character in a man.

I've had to fight to improve my life. Nothing has come easily.

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.

One thing I take pride in is that I never cracked and stopped playing hard. There's something to be said for that, because life doesn't always throw the best situations at you.

Always it's like big challenge for me. Every point is a big challenge. So I do everything I can.

I want to push myself. I'm always up for a challenge.

At West Ham, I was the last person to be offered a scholarship. I remember an Under 18 match against Fulham. I was 16 and had to prove myself. Everyone else already had their scholarship. It was probably one of my best games. Knowing that every day I'd have to fight has made me into the person I am today.

Learning how to walk again was a process for me. It was some of the darker days of my life, but I've had many moments of my life where I've had to just kind of put my head down and work, and this was no different.

My story is just my story, and it's not nearly as traumatic as some.

I've dealt with a lot in my life.

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

I think if you're not strong, in life or in football, not every day is going to be going up and seeing the sunshine.

I think when things get tough, I'm just a little bit soft.